Sentence examples for exactly calm from inspiring English sources

To populate the concert scenes in "Control," the filmmakers rounded up Joy Division fans, which did not exactly calm Mr. Riley's nerves.

The cold war period, I'm told, was not exactly calm and collected; the era of witch trials was hardly level-headed.

His family do not exactly calm the waters, with Miklós' largely absent father and a mother who wails about how he'll never be half the man his brother was.

Susan's flurried denials that she even used the phrase do not exactly calm the waters, and soon Micah's unofficial guardian, Gene Dinkel Adam LeFevree), is paying a visit to the classroom, exuding folksy geniality (he brings a lemon meringue pie) but trying to cajole the reluctant Susan into making the proper apology that she has refused to give Micah.

That didn't exactly calm me down.

"Oh, man, was I nervous about it," Mr. Reynolds said during an interview last week at the Sunset Tower Hotel here, adding that the gray motion-capture suit he wore for much of the shoot was not exactly calming.

"It's not exactly calming, although the effect can be after you've been in there a while," he said.

But the metro hasn't exactly restored calm to this chaotic country.

Mr. Hubbard knows exactly how to calm her down.

It has not exactly been a calm run-in to the Easter break.

Ferrer, not exactly a model of calm, was a statue by comparison.