Примеры placid

• In the foreground a placid young woman observes the unfolding battle while tending a crying newborn.

• Where practical, they used built-in furniture to secure the visual tranquillity that reflected their placid way of life.

• He weaves these events skilfully, even lyrically, into a rich and placid folk narrative, where sensuous imagery and strategically placed folksayings accompany the most brutal acts.

• Most studies of retirement communities focus exclusively on samples of residents as the sole research unit, often erroneously portraying them as enjoying a largely placid leisure lifestyle.

• Kamal's petition also demonstrates that underlying the placid plea he made, he was conscious of the impropriety, and thought it judicious to draw the state's attention.

• We move now from the stormy seas of politics to the placid but pedantic backwater of legal phraseology.

• He caused the normally respectable and placid members of the teaching profession to resort to direct action.

• A normally placid section of the community has been roused to protest.