Sentence examples similar to a placid front from inspiring English sources

Behind that placid front, however, a scandal was brewing in 1972, as many officers were suspected of taking money from street peddlers and building contractors.

He knows the emotions that roil beneath his nephew's placid front.

Peter's father Eberhard has a desk job in Italy far from the front, and his mother, Katharina, is a placid beauty, vague and naive, withdrawn to the point of vacancy.

From the front yard you see the distant mountains and a placid lake.

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.

A placid pool forms a makeshift looking glass.

She wore a placid expression, like a waxy doll.