Intended for comparatively placid harbor waters, the rail floats swung wildly on their lines.
The other handmade drawing, "Before a Yacht" (1875), by Berthe Morisot, is a small, deftly made watercolor of a sailboat in a placid, translucent green harbor.
Water views of Huntington Harbor are placid and plentiful.
And in one of the most disturbingly beautiful shots in film history, his quietly insidious arrival in Bremen is heralded by his ship's smoothly innocuous glide into a static and placid long shot of the harbor.
We wanted to bike south out of the city along the Amstel, to the town of Ouderkerk, where the old Portuguese Jewish cemetery is situated, and also to explore the placid Waterland region across the IJ harbor (pronounced eye) to the north.
The new harbor seal diorama may be placid, even a bit dull, by comparison, but Long Islanders may find themselves lingering in front of it anyway.
And from Craig Schusterick's third story roof deck in the heart of the island, you can see the harbor, its boats floating on placid waters.
Mr. Egoyan conveys a voluptuous, slightly sinister apprehension of the material world in which people harbor secrets, and blind rage can suddenly erupt in the most placid setting for no apparent reason.
Safe harbor is represented by "The Landing, Bailey Island, Maine," by Alfred T. Bricher, where fishing boats tie up in a placid bay, and John Whorf's "Scene in Barbados," with children playing around the colorful beached boats.
