Yet historians have established that, contrary to David's propaganda, Bonaparte did not cross the mountains over the Grand St Bernard pass "calm, on a fiery horse".
Flicking through Liya Kebede's pile of fashion magazine covers passes a calm and perfumed afternoon.
As he spoke, the blaring horns of a passing caravan of pickup trucks broke the calm.
Now you may think this is all so much gumbaggley - my husband's word for anything smacking of alterna tive eastern mysticism - but we all felt better with each day that passed: calmer, more relaxed and less wrinkled both inside and out.
Try this, from Chapter 1: "Thereupon the world and the night gave a sort of shudder, as a shudder may pass over a calm sea, or a horse's flank; and like a building fallen around him in an earthquake, the night fell away in pieces, his sleep shattered, and he awoke.
Everton looked sorely muddled when the game restarted, so much so that Gabriel, usually so calm, put up a pass back to West which would have counted as a good shot had it come from Ipswich.
One indelible scene suggests the director's genius for political implication: a decade later, Li Ti, a Chinese student visiting Berlin, walks through town with her friends and passes by a calm march of left-wing militants brandishing red flags and a banner with the faces of Marx, Lenin, and Mao.
Just calmly admit that more time needs to pass for a truly calm conversation to occur, and walk away, get off the phone, or otherwise end the conversation politely.
Perhaps because Morocco is relatively calmer than its neighbors, it has often gotten a pass.
-- Donald Lord, Forest Hills, Queens A. This route passes through calm canals, where the speed limit is typically 10 miles an hour, and across Lake Ontario, where open waters allow greater speed and winds call for more maneuverability.
