Sentence examples similar to how placid from inspiring English sources

They dominate games for long spells but fail to take their chances and it is interesting to note how agitated the usually placid Ronald Koeman is growing with each passing week.

And he knows how to ruffle the normally placid man from Switzerland.

The Washington Post: How did wild wolves evolve into placid, domesticated dogs?

How familiar--his strangely bland, even placid, image, briefly resurrected by the media.

Art fair booths can often be placid excursions into commercial flatness; how can we present the works by our best-selling artists in a way that they'll end up selling some more?

The White Ribbon is an essay on the violence and social dysfunction just beneath the surface of the ostensibly placid rural communities of Europe, and how their simmering, unacknowledged resentments stoked war fever.

Anne McElvoy traces how the threat of Free Trade stung a placid aristocrat into action.

The sight of Rapier missile launchers in placid parkland is a reminder of how security-conscious the modern Olympics have had to become.

But how does ones induce a neurosis in a normally placid animal?

How do I make my voters all soft and placid like yours?

"Don't you understand this is how The Hunger Games starts!?" Luther howls as Peele's placid Obama mentions that Americans elected Trump.