Such clarity and, in an odd way, such calm.
He and the three women maintain an odd sort of calm that sometimes reads as disdain or distance, though it's probably simply concentration.
"He's nowhere near the finished article but we know the potential Jos has got and I think you all agree watching him in that 20-odd he looked calm and composed at the crease and looks like he has turned a corner.
He told Rachel about this later in the morning, the boy's unsettling calm, his odd response.
Her face was clear and bright, her hair a rumpled silver in the odd light, her eyes calm and free of makeup.
"All I'm thinking is, 'Oh, God, this is going to hurt.' " The grind of the drive provokes such frustration that commuters do odd things to stay calm.
It's to do with his sense of detachment: the odd mix of preternatural calm and underlying menace that he exudes onscreen.
Ms. Halprin becomes quite as rich a subject for film as Ms. Monk: another odd face, another wonderfully calm (though ardently enthusiastic) and open talker, another (and senior) artist who responds to both politics and scenery.
It turns out to be merely the opening salvo in his increasingly odd between-song banter – "calm up everyone, leave it in, leave it in," he offers later – but equally, opening his gig with an assertion of his individuality seems telling.
