Exempel på placidly

• The evening had begun placidly, with families doing their food shopping and eating ice cream to beat the Baghdad heat.

• The network of drainage culverts flowed placidly beside and under empty streets.

• A policeman's horse placidly nibbles a blade of grass.

• "No," Ellen said placidly.

• The performers placidly negotiate different spaces, able to regulate the flow of their charisma.

• The male stands placidly to the side rather than running frenetically about, and his size and position cast him as the female's protector.

• If they think that we are a bit of a pushover, the negotiation will continue placidly for a year or even more.

• The time has passed when the country will placidly forgive any further vacillation in this matter.

• I would then have accepted the situation quite placidly and would not have wanted to press the amendment.

• In the meantime, we are placidly accepting the situation and are lacking the necessary surveillance and vigilance.

• In the statistical jargon, my constituency is under-represented in the professional, managerial and technical classes, but please do not think that we have placidly accepted that situation.

• They are presumably privately amazed that they have got away with it for so long and are now, for the most part, placidly resigned to their fate.

• The doctor has not seen the boy; finally, she finds him placidly astride his pony, who is grazing near a stream.

• They were also conducting themselves placidly at this point.

• It normally swims along, placidly and slowly, until it quickly dunks its head underwater and scoops the fish out, along with great masses of water.

• His natural temperament was such that many things that other men got along with placidly gave him acute pain.