Sentence examples for placid as from inspiring English sources

Then again, unlike other cars that are nearly as quick (think the incredibly fun and reasonably priced Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, for example), the 'Vette is placid as well.

"They're not as placid as the gulf.

Instantly, it quiets, and hangs as placid as its neighbour.

At the barbershop, Ling waits like a Buddha, placid as her bangs are being trimmed.

Do not expect that debate to be as placid as the spotless sun.

She realized that the students' emotional undercurrents are not as placid as the surface suggested.

He was round, placid, smooth as a cheese.

At night, in darkness or with moon, the ocean often seems so wide it's like it might go on forever scrolling out into itself, its body wide and deep enough to cover over every body ever living and still seem as placid from above the same breadth where every summer millions flock to burn away their off hours basking at the edge of immeasurable death.

Pushing into their twilight years but still blasting free rock and rabid deconstructed guitar noise, they were received by the placid audience about as well as a husband asking his wife for anal on Christmas day.

Finally, describing children with A.S. as "demanding of caregivers," and children with Prader-Willi Syndrome first as "placid, compliant" and later as "psychotic" falls far short of capturing the true nature of these brave children.

But it is very odd to describe Yale in 1967-68 as "a fairly placid period," as Mr. Bush does.