The day certainly passed calmly – unexpectedly so, after migrant riots on the Greek islands over the weekend, and simultaneous anti-refugee protests from wary residents in Dikili.
"Outwardly," Freud went on, perhaps a trifle disingenuously, "my life has passed calmly and uneventfully and can be covered by a few dates".
On the other hand, a respectable critic doesn't want to end up sounding like the "Janeites" who warble so wonderfully through Claudia Johnson's history of Austen cults, gushing about her "indefinable charm" and "bright sunny nature", and her life that "passed calmly and smoothly, resembling some translucent stream which meanders through our English meadows".
In front of them Ivan Rakitic, the elegant playmaker and captain, was superb, passing calmly and intelligently.
It passed off calmly.There are other signs of improvement.
As the weeks passed, Heywood calmly occupied himself by resuming his studies of the Tahitian language.
Group C Croatia, 3 points; Italy and Spain, 1; Ireland, 0 When Chelsea knocked Barcelona out of the Champions League this spring, the Spaniards' commitment to passing, to calmly probing for a weakness or an opening, even in the face of a fortified defense and a ticking clock, seemed … stubborn.
The ball flew out to Pablo Hernandez, who calmly passed to Jonathan De Guzman, who finished into the far bottom corner.
Thoroughly impressed with how the 6-foot-11 O'Neal avoided forcing the issue and calmly passed out of the double-team, helping Reggie Miller & Company make just enough shots to hold off the scrambling Nets, were MacCulloch, the Nets' center, and Willis Reed, the Nets' senior vice president who, once upon a time, played a little big man's basketball himself.
As Müller cuts inside from the far right — as opposed to running down the line — passing to Schweinsteiger — who had sat so deep against Portugal — on the edge of the Dutch box, before sliding the ball through to Gomez — facing the goal with the ball at his feet for the first time in the tournament — as the front man calmly passed the ball past Maarten Stekelenburg to put Germany ahead.
The ball fell to Kagawa 35 yards from goal and he threaded a pass to Rooney, who calmly passed the ball into the net past Boruc.
