Sentence examples for placid landscape from inspiring English sources
When the lights came back up, Melnick continued on, introducing a funny walk downstage, with swivelling hips and awkwardly placed legs, and a frantic shaking of her hands, a rough action in an otherwise placid landscape.
Stubbs was fond of placing his subjects in a placid landscape, displaying them at their calmest, when their physical characteristics stood out, like "Mares and Foals in a River Landscape" (about 1763-65), showing two thoroughbred bay mares with their nuzzling offspring on a riverbank, set off by a beautiful white, virginal-looking onlooker that could have served as the mount for Lady Godiva.
Bohbot's series, entitled "Last Stop -- Coney Island" transforms the seedy New York amusement park into a placid landscape of washed out pastels and muted dreams.
Thanks to former Dallas radio executives Patrick Fant and Dennis Sternitsky, after you've shuffled off this mortal coil, you can lie in a box decorated with 1 of more than 30 different designs, ranging from placid landscapes and Raphael's familiar angels to a Nascar-themed casket labeled "The Race Is Over".
Another refuses to drink the water in this now placid tropical landscape because of bodies buried there.
In its place has come an injection of high-rise energy in the midst of Fairfield County's otherwise placid suburban landscape".
In "Crossing Kansas," Heat-Moon recalls a 1947 boyhood trip across the state he calls America's "billiard table," whose placid agricultural landscapes belie its violent history.
Nestled amid the placid, arid landscapes of Death Valley, its only neighbors a top-secret military base and the infamous Barker Ranch, the town manages its own water supply and buries its own dead.
Fully operational since 2010, it sits on the mossy slopes of the Hengill volcano in the south-west of the country; a green and placid-looking landscape that belies the turbulent geological activity rumbling beneath it.
The roads were good and the landscape placid, and considering that it was already late April, the heat was not as intolerable as it would soon be.
For years I'd looked longingly at pictures of the broad paths along this high, undulating ridge, a dramatic nine-mile upheaval in the otherwise placid and gently rolling landscape of Hereford and Worcester in central England.
