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Sentence Examples In actual fact, beneath our placid exteriors, both of us were frantically trying to dream up an improvised line which could break the deadlock. I saw the transformation take place, the placid exterior to the violent, savage beast. At the southern tip of the city, another enterprising group is trying to market the placid backwaters of rural Kerala. Years later, the sacking still makes the normally placid Burt uncharacteristically testy, but he doesn't dwell on it. Two open carriages each pulled by a pair of placid horses had begun to make their parking lot rounds when I sat down. Musically, they stroll rather than rock, constructing songs round punchy guitar harmonics and placid basslines. As the water settled and all became placid again only the wrecked and sinking craft remained, alone in the sea. Continue to look at them and their placid, inoffensive appearance draws you in with a curious and unexpected power. The magic of sand and stone is mirrored in the placid waters of the Sindhu, increasing the beauty of the landscape. His placid nature and sense of humour instilled confidence in patients seeking counselling. Malati, a sedate old female, was a placid soul, unflappable even in a crisis. Snow and rain have raised the normally placid Jordan River to unfordable levels. They are framed by a bower of leafy trees, a placid lake and a glorious orange sunset. Quietude is a similarly becalmed sonic vista of placid sine-waves, nervous clicks and lithe atmospheric details. At home, he's placid and gentle and happy and looks as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth. When the wind blows, it can be a fearsome proposition, yet, like all links, it is vulnerable when the weather is calm and placid. But every one or two minutes, the placid water erupts in an explosion of mud, followed by a plume of white steam. A less driven woman might have been content with such generous helpings of immortality, but she was not that placid woman. The effects are chintzy, the creature is uninteresting, and the story incredibly placid. Inspection indicated no rock collapse or fall of trees but the surface of the normally placid water was said to be seen rippling. Show More Sentences Bergman wants to portray the powerful, often destructive desires and impulses lying beneath placid social exteriors. There's also a large recreation area where I watched a placid game of pickup basketball. For years, he was a placid, unobtrusive student of his, but he's emerged from the long shadow cast by his mentor. The placid nature of many of the skits is due mostly in part to the fact that times have changed and so has the country's sense of what is funny. The Cancer child is usually very placid and serene, with a loving and sympathetic disposition. People should also avoid getting between a cow and her calf as the maternal instinct could make otherwise placid animals aggressive. Then a genuine live television moment happens, the sort of occasion that could induce hyperekplexia in the most placid soul. Despite his life going downhill, he was still described by people who knew him as a gentle, placid, easy-going, amiable man. To be fair, he makes a placid and generous early morning companion, unlikely to alarm with any gratuitous perkiness. They were easy targets, as the presence of people doesn't seem to disturb them and they are placid and friendly by nature. The placid, short-legged Ryelands suited the purpose, but have not been kept by the Royal Family since those days. Normally, a placid, laissez-faire type, I began saying mean things about other drivers. To look after the wheelchair-bound at matches, you might think that only tolerant, placid individuals need apply. I had no ambition of asking for a luxurious house by a placid lake from my husband because I was used to hearing airplanes every day. Despite the placid surface that suggested a serene dream, he twitched occasionally, as if his eyes would burst wide awake. Few know that Hebbal Lake is an ideal place for a quiet paddle on placid waters. Together, they go angling for the state's native muskie fish in the placid waters of Rib Lake. Life in the picturesque Yorkshire village of Knapely is pleasant, but placid to the point of paralysis. A couple of km further down the coast is a placid strip of sand known as Sunset Beach, which is a good option for the non-surfers. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Show More Sentences The views were striking, with the Mountains of Mourne on our right and, just after Kilcoo, the placid waters of Lough Island Reavy on our left. The sea was so calm and placid on top but underneath, it was as busy as a train station. It showed in her movements, those fine steps and twists that were as smooth as prized silk and as calm as the placid lake on a sunny day. No matter how seemingly placid the surface response, those who fail to obtain the position will experience some internal distress. Wherever you look, fish are jumping out of the placid water, landing with audible plips and plops, while ospreys swoop down to pluck up dinner. Tyson himself sits, placid, in the undulating waves of white light produced by ranks of flashguns. And frankly, who wouldn't want to pop a few placid pills or love potions just to escape from the long list of wicked words mentioned above. Wigwam appears as it might have two hundred years ago when the Potawatomi fished its seemingly placid waters. To this day it remains filled with placid, crystal waters lapping at the craggy hewn cliffs. Each one is pre-programmed to have a different temperament, some will be really placid, others will cry all night, it is pot luck. He favoured placid stretches of water dimly fringed with translucent foliage. Providing you are not encroaching on their space, they are pretty placid animals. Caged, with no food or water, his placid disposition changed to that of a raging fiend. It's going to be tough finding a dog as placid and docile as Sue, in fact, I don't think we will ever see the likes of her again. The attendant asked Sue, with the same doting, placid face, the same question. This was something entirely missing in the placid ' millpond ' climax of the television dramatization. The bark of seals drowns out the din of the city you left behind, and at night, the canal's placid silence is just what you need to decompress. A quick-tempered man will react more aggressively to an unpleasing situation than a placid one. Now the lake was placid in the heat of the afternoon, the tiny wavelets lapping the shore like a hurried metronome. Horrocks seems placid but you get the feeling there's a fidgety jitteriness convulsing somewhere near the surface. Show More Sentences Extroverts may become withdrawn, natural jokers humourless, and placid individuals short-tempered and aggressive. The placid grey door whisked open as he approached, admitting him to his dark cabin. Indians almost subconsciously take to cricket as a representation of the placid, karmic life. As the search for effective antivenom goes on, the rattlers continue in their propensity for remaining placid until disturbed. They're recognizably human characters with serious problems of their own and lives that don't always stay on placid waters. They gazed on the road with a solemn, placid expression, as of men to whom the Atlantean weight of this weary world was as the down on a feather. Back in the saddle again, we go, folks, with all placid on the Y2K front, bogus threat that it was. Sam runs his own company, manufacturing plastic table mats, and is placid only in between his frequent outbursts. The curator insisted it was of placid temper, but obviously it took against me, and only a dangling camera bag saved my legs from a mauling. Usually he's a placid child, but when that valve blows, it blows big time. First, these characters are not placid creatures risen by voodoo for slave labour but the dead, reanimated by a virus, whose single instinct is to eat human flesh. Plus, Michael Daly on Chicago's carnage and Jim Warren on the placid protest. I don't know what they gave those bunnies, but my word were they placid. His features were smoothly regular and extraordinarily placid, as if he surveyed the world from a lofty perch, far removed from any of its foibles and cares. In 1990, Twin Peaks gave the world a nightmare vision into the seediness beneath the placid veneer of small-town America. His face immediately shifted out of the placid, guarded, friendliness of the Scheduled Speaker into ambroad, welcoming smile. Ah, I weep for you, placid hours that disappeared from the scene of my life more rapidly and fugaciously than the lightning that shines on the dark road of the traveler. Ah, I weep for you, placid hours that disappeared from the scene of my life more rapidly and fugaciously than lightning that shines on the dark road of the traveler. Chewie was just one-year-old whereas a lot of the other dogs were six or seven-years-old and a lot more placid but as long as Jessica is grooming him he is happy. And I long for the placid days when all I worried about were jackhammers, halal carts and clueless tourists on rental bikes. Show More Sentences The sternwheel steamboat Delta Queen is paddling slowly along the Tennessee River, the early morning sun burning off wispy fog rising from a placid surface. The mysterious beauty of hundreds of handmade candle lanterns and the haunting figures of stiltwalkers are glowingly reflected in the placid rippling water of Trout Lake. Her placid, almost vacant stare simply invites people to draw their own conclusions about St. Vincent as the indie-rock version of a manic pixie dream girl. They didn't even give him a standing ovation, and instead returned to a placid debate on the countryside, like snoozing farm hands propped up on hayricks. Kayaking on the ocean is not the same as kayaking on a placid lake. He was placid, very pleasant, proud, charming and unassuming. The moments sped, the ripples died away, the face of the pool grew placid and untroubled, and neither black nor golden head broke surface in quest of air. Their somewhat placid life is disturbed when an old friend comes to stay. Underneath the most placid waters, there are vicious currents and tides, and underwater volcanoes that are constantly erupting. Ironically, the day of the Great Invasion was a very calm and placid one. Goaded past the point of losing his temper, the normally placid Josh picks up a feather duster and hits his thirteen-year-old brother, Theo, hard on the arm. She is very placid and wouldn't do anything to upset an animal. It was a placid, snowy day around Christmastime in 1916 when I met her. Some contend that he is too placid to succeed, and he understands why. Beneath a placid surface of seeming unconcern over the earnings downturn and cost squeeze, there is growing turmoil within Scotland's financial services industry. The river may look placid, but it is cold, wide, deep and fast-flowing. It's the same in the fishing hamlets by this now calm and placid sea. Fussy Felix is a neat-freak whose wife has just thrown him out of their house, and Oscar is a placid slob who has wallowed in his pigsty apartment ever since his divorce. Sunny played the song again, but this time at a placid adagio place. In actual fact, any individual on the drug was so mild and placid, they stood more chance of being mugged themselves than causing a problem to anyone else. Show More Sentences Ellie Black rouses quietly to consciousness at around 3, her eyes unfocused, mind placid. He faced the situation with placid courage, and unsoured he kept to the end of his long life the playful humour and kindly temper which made him loved alike by old and young. Thirdly, and not least importantly, the novel lives up to the advertisement of being a potboiler and not just another placid semi-documentary history of the Kashmir imbroglio. Within, was the peace as of innocence, reckless blindless, deluding joy, hope, whose still anchor rested on placid but unconstant water. Pitcairn bees are also a placid variety and, within a short time, beekeepers are able to work with them wearing minimal protection. She loved.. to watch the lovely shadows in the silent depths of the placid mere. What bearing hath be shown of late toward thee By which thou might'st beframe some estimate Of his mind's placid flow or turbulent? Milk snakes are nonvenomous constrictors, generally quite placid and are kept as pets. The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course. They were the first ships that could leave the relatively placid and calm Mediterranean, Baltic or North Sea and sail safely on the open Atlantic. Counting on Cromwell's placid disposition, he boldly applied to him for a pass to return to England, and, when it was not granted, came over without one on 14 June. Historically, the basking shark has been a staple of fisheries because of its slow swimming speed, placid nature, and previously abundant numbers. The burst of anger was out of character for the normally placid boy. Because of hockey, no one remembers the epic transportation foul-ups at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid. In Lake Placid, summer pastimes include antiquing, visits to the Winter Olympic Museum, historic sites, and scenic boat tours of the lake. Another time, I was in Lake Placid NY during the summer and got to see the US ski jump team training. Sports most frequently training in Lake Placid include biathlon, bobsled, figure skating, ice hockey, luge, skiing and speed skating. A ragtag group of college hockey players defeated a nearly invincible juggernaut on their way to Olympic gold at Lake Placid. So it is no surprise that ice dancing, not freestyle skating, is king in Lake Placid in August. Multiplex Bioscience employees will continue to work in Lake Placid, with immediate growth planned at that facility. Show More Sentences Ciaran's side project Acid Casuals released their debut album Omni in January 2006 on the Placid Casual label. Moritz, Switzerland and Innsbruck, Austria, Lake Placid is one of the three cities to have hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice. Mazzi was the brakeman for the USA world bobsledding team that won the four-man national bobsledding championship at Lake Placid. New York hosted the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. Examples from Classical Literature He noticed the daintiness of her profile, the placid sweetness of her face in repose. But, placid as she was, my mother was authoritative, and could not endure any kind of constraint. The little crafts, aided by a gentle push, floated out into a placid little pool just under randys feet. But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. It was the picture, still unscarred, but with a great streak of rotten egg across the plain, placid features. She was rosy and placid as the apple she was generally eating when not in class. It is all right,' said Mr. Knight, who was as placid as dewy eve by the side of Elfride. Idyllic beach, placid water, and coral reef make this a perfect place for snorkeling and swimming. Directly he saw me, Dominic, in a placid tone, wanted to know what was the matter. In the evening a field of neve was reached and we felt more placid after the anxiety of the preceding hours. Who but a child so careless would dream that these placid ripples of youth will rock you stormless to El Dorado? What ripples from the seething capitals will stir the placid thoughts of your stouthearted peasants? Young islay felt, for the first time in his life, a sense of placid happiness. A smile broke out on jennies handsome face, which, in spite of her age, was as smooth and placid as a childs. And I looked out upon the perfect beauty of the world around me, and I saw how little excited it was, how placid, how undemanding. The placid summer views are exquisite and soul-stirring, but what of Tahoe now? If so, the placid and modest demeanour of the Academicians ultimately disarmed hostility, and they obtained their letters patent. Miggles gazed at the coffeepot with an air of placid regret, which quickly melted into smiles. The usually placid course pursued by echinococcus of the liver may be much modified by inflammation and suppuration. In the faint pink reflection of the Glo-Wave lighter his face was emptily placid, a faint smile twisting the corners of his lips. Show More Sentences Beyond this was the river, agleam with the lights of the British fleet that rode at anchor on its placid bosom. Beatrice, however, with the placid navet of her will-less temperament, flies to Filippo. It had the pure and placid expression of the human soul, when it dwells in love and peace. Do what he would, and love me though he did, the light left his face ever and again, and a film came over the placid look at the white ceiling. But he controlled his features, and maintained a placid, bland expression. His eyes dwelt fondly on the placid Imogene, couchant amidships. In this more placid state of things William reentered, followed not far behind by his mother and Betsey. The declivity was not great and the torrent was otherwise placid. By degrees the placid influence of her friend calmed her perturbed spirit. On the placid waters of the landlocked harbor floated a great ship, and on the beach a small boat was drawn up. The effete and placid Thedor was supported by a douma of five. James was in excellent spirits, and Isabella most engagingly placid. The men were happy, not hilariously so, but in a placid, equable fashion. And Cluros, the cold husband, continued his serene way, as placid as before his house had been violated by this hot Lothario. Jo was determined to have it out now, and tried to look quite placid, though she quaked a little after her bold speech. Instantly, Miss Skiffins stopped it with the neatness of a placid boxer, took off that girdle or cestus as before, and laid it on the table. The minister had a serious countenance, and was very placid. This outburst from Sarah the placid rather startled the We are sevens. I ABHOR violence and the legacy of suffering it leaves and, temperamentally, I think of myself as a fairly placid person. Edward smoked his honeydew, and Mary looked at him with placid affection. Show More Sentences She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on. I see her, with her modest, orderly, placid manner, and I hear her beautiful calm voice, as I write these words. They were a phlegmatic race, placid, unimaginative, reposeful. Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures. Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature. Ontario, Canada, 1981 guilelessly portrays logs floating in a placid river. The placid cow chewed calmly on hay, and Joe put the piglet down. Dilly took her placid companion by the arm, and hurried her on. His usually placid, gentle face had lost some of its placidity. March, with placid satisfaction, from the hearthrug, after the last guest had gone. At last the wrath of the chief evaporated, and in a few moments he was as placid as ever. The sight of the hideous little reptile sitting placid on his rock throne, with his bright eyes staring impenetrably into vacancy, irritated every nerve in her body. Your uncle is a strong man, with a very happy and placid nature. Then, seizing the hand of the other, he squeezed it with a grip that brought tears into the eyes of the placid David, and wished him joy of his new condition. Hoch placid and content, Gretchen weeping over her hard fate. Her pride could still its very pulses, it appeared, and draw the placid veil before her face, through which she sat looking straight before her on the far distance. The noble Saxon had returned from the banquet, as we have seen, in no very placid humour, and wanted but a pretext for wreaking his anger upon some one. He scowled at the placid face, and the monumental calm of the pose. Like a flash the beast wheeled upon its tormentor, and, in the briefest instant of turning, the placid, friendly animal was metamorphosed to a frenzied demon of rage. Tristram looked at him for some moments, and allowed his placid eyes to measure his friend's generous longitude and rest upon his comfortably contemplative face. Show More Sentences Placid and even radiant in its peacefulness lay the face of Ralph's mother. Mr Casby shook his head, in Placid and benignant generality. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of placid? Words that rhyme with placid What is the adverb for placid? What is the adjective for placid? What is the noun for placid? Translations for placid Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words place value placet Places place's places Placerville placidity placidly placidness placing placings plack 6-letter Words Starting With p pl pla plac placi