Sentence examples for placid appearance from inspiring English sources

Vesuvius, hiding its violence under a placid appearance, is a metaphor for the unreliability of our eyes.

It was then that he adopted the epithet "das Madchen" for a woman whose placid appearance and air of innocence belie intelligence and ambition that are evidently fierce.

But despite its uniformity and placid appearance, the university, like South Korea itself, is locked in a roiling debate over the merits of affirmative action, which -- though it is based here on region rather than race or ethnicity -- is every bit as divisive as any culture war in multiethnic America.

Yet, despite the placid appearance of this smooth transition, the new leaders face the same problem that has been the greatest threat to stability in China for over a decade: land expropriation.

Yet, despite their placid appearances, the villages lie on the invisible frontline of a brutal, low-level, three-way war pitting security agencies against the Islamic extremist network al-Shabaab, and the militants against the local community.

And it is this river, placid in appearance as it snakes along the southern border of Ohio, that brought immigrants like my paternal grandfather Julius Nagy nee Big nee Biggs to Martins Ferry, Ohio where he worked in the mines until he got black lung and died in California searching for a cure.  .

A fresh-faced bachelor of 46 with a jolly laugh, who looks as though he spent his life in the open air instead of in the less salubrious brezzes of conference rooms, he conceals beneath his placid, and even bucolic, appearance...a mind like a whip, a superb memory for filing information, and an ability to be tough, all of which doubtless come in handy in his present job.

Mr. Indelicato's latest legal difficulties disrupted what had, by all appearances, become a placid life.

The appearance of a placid-looking white whale borne aloft by eight birds was source of irritation and amusement for Twitter's users, and the image by artist Yiying Lu quickly became iconic.

Take, for example, his description of Jennifer's constant companion, the sharp-toothed Quarkbeast: "Despite his placid nature, the beast's ferocious appearance almost guaranteed that no one ever completely shrugged off the possibility that he might try to take a chunk out of them".

Your sole reward will be the appearance of being deep, much as a placid lake looks much deeper than it really is.