Sentence examples for a calm surface from inspiring English sources

Under a calm surface, social tensions are strong.

For the rest, the walls keep a blank face and the canals where bodies have been dumped resume a calm surface.

On and off screen, Mr. Yip, who calls himself "an introvert who forces myself to be an extrovert," has a calm surface that hides the engine of ambition purring along inside him.

David Friedlander, as Michael, also ably embodies a character whose calm surface hides a troubled soul.

Sitting in the middle of the room, underneath a coffee table, is an old stone well, its calm surface of water still visible from above, though covered in glass.

But beneath the calm surface boiled a sea of intricately shifting rhythms, influences and emotional tone.

Beneath the calm surface is a reef of anger over Greenpeace, the IWC and the anti-whaling lobby.

But beneath the calm surface of a successful and innovative event, which all those in attendance seem to have enjoyed, there lurked a sinister undercurrent.

But below the calm surface, there's a lot of swimming going on.

"Beneath the calm surface," he writes, "a cataclysm was building like magma bubbling to the surface of a volcano".

Wind blowing over a calm lake surface first produces an effect that may appear as a widely varying and fluctuating ruffling of the surface.