placidity

Example Sentences

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But, as in “Men,” Kinnear’s appearance of placidity makes his characters’ nefarious tendencies even more chilling; his ability to draw his mouth into a grim implacable line is second to none.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

What might have been striking about Saturday was its placidity, especially in a month not famed for meteorological serenity.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2021

People got married, divorced, babies were born and people died, and there was this placidity.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2021

The seeming placidity of the city was perhaps deceptive.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2021

The cows gazed at him with a sort of threatening idiotic placidity; the horses peered down their long snouts like curious, intelligent gods.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols