Sentence examples for a placid existence from inspiring English sources

If being back means hitting technically proficient shots with increasingly ordinary effort, if it means a relatively calm putting stroke, if it means sound course management and a placid existence because his marital and adultery scandal no longer comes up on or off the course, then Tiger is back.

"The Unfinished Novel," a near-­novella-length story, is a dark and winding account of a New Orleans native's return from his placid existence in Vermont.

My widow lived a placid, unhurried existence, no slave to mere schedules, as so many of us were.

He was held in Northamptonshire, where he lived a placid, healthy existence and, learning of the quarrels between the New Model Army and Parliament, hoped to come to a treaty with one or the other and regain his power.

When a couple move into the empty house next door, his placid existence is overturned: eight years earlier, he and Mathilde (Fanny Ardant), one of the new neighbors, had had a furious, unresolved affair, and their lust is instantly reignited.

(Holden) * 'BUBBLE' (R, 72 minutes) A rigorously minimalist story about three factory workers, all played by nonprofessionals, whose placid existence is shattered after two in the little group become romantically linked.

A placid debate here.

"It was a placid scene.

CONSERVATIVE Party Conference was a placid affair (see article).

It was not a placid relationship.

I am normally a placid person.