| Dig below the surface of Alpine placidity and you will encounter covert chauvinism, racism and die-hard xenophobia. |
| Also thus the poetical reality of caught gestures becomes narrow by the placidity of conquest distance facing the camera. |
| Secondly, the team has suffered through a febrile 2005, falling off the pace, storming back into the race, and then settling for long stretches of placidity. |
| The momentary outburst had subsided to be replaced with the old calmness and placidity. |
| Water, architecture and nature constitute a balanced environment where the smallest details invite leisure and placidity. |
| A certain habituation or, shall we say, placidity has settled over the event. |
