A small, idiosyncratic and proudly placid country, Belgium has none of the long and bloody entanglements in Muslim lands that have made the United States and neighboring France such obvious targets for global jihad.
Such news flashes offer viewers in placid, wealthy lands the option of responding with pity or indifference.
Geologists now almost universally agree that by 4.2 billion years ago, the Earth was a pretty placid place, with both land and oceans.
The tragedy cut deep into the placid spirit of this back-road stretch of Allegheny valley land.
The ripening, sun-browned corn, the sweet-smelling stacked hay, the placid cattle grazing in the fields, the beauty of the fertile summer land, suggest a calm wholly at variance with the disturbed spirit of the day.
In a beautifully orchestrated sequence in the season finale, Cersei Lannister calmly unleashes, via a team of sneaky street urchins, a green-wildfire monsoon beneath King's Landing, burning the Sept of Baelor and beyond, incinerating the placid but terrible High Sparrow, the whole gang of his forehead-scarred go-alongs, many people who had it coming, and, well, many people who didn't.
Here, alpacas roam freely while locals tend to the land, creating an atmosphere that slowed my fast-beating New York City heart to a placid pace.
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.
A revitalization initiative for the Hunts Point neighborhood has also reclaimed Barretto Point Park, turning what was once an unkempt stretch of waterfront land "overrun by weeds, chickens, goats, vagrants and shacks," Ms. Hayon recalls, into a placid, pleasant and tidy expanse.
Alex has become obsessed with letting their land go wild and eating nothing but vegetables; Will has become bored with her "romantic," gentle, placid sexuality and is burning to sleep with other women.
