Sentence examples for placid as a from inspiring English sources

But soon Lucy awaits him, perfectly still and dressed in coffin-white, pale and placid as a daguerrotype.

Renamed Veronica Lake by the studio — which chose to capitalize on her unfortunately immobile, high-cheekboned features by suggesting she was as cool and placid as a large body of water — she too became a major sensation of the period.

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.

He was round, placid, smooth as a cheese.

In many of the photographs, he assumes what seems to be a characteristic posture — passive, recessive, placid, as if requiring an invitation to join the officers who outrank him.

Such is the state of the Mets that they make the last-place Yankees, with a blustering owner and a general manager probably dangling again on the big employment hook, appear as placid as Carlos Beltrán on a cloudless day at Coney Island.

They do not read his placid expressions as a sign of passivity.

Down by the beach this evening, visitors seated around a rattan-and-mangrove table at the Vista del Mar Beach Resort watched fishermen in outrigger canoes plying a placid sea as a sunset gradually turned the western sky pink.

Supporting characters are Winslow's forte, from Magda, the clever ex-beauty queen who parlays her affair with Barrera into full-fledged narco status, to Eddie Ruiz, a former Texas high-school football star whose placid life as a small-time dealer gets sucked into the nihilistic vortex of the clash between the Gulf cartel and Los Zetas.

They watched with placid smiles as a resource-swollen, multi-million dollar football juggernaut destroyed their outmatched Cowboys.

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