Sentence examples for placid place from inspiring English sources

"They wanted a happy, placid place".

"This has never been a pastoral, placid place". Neither has Mr. Carr's life.

In the meantime, the dispute is revealing long-simmering splits in this seemingly placid place, dividing neighbors, colleagues, even families.

But for the moment, the pro golf tour on Twitter is a placid place, much like the pastoral settings where the game is played.

This music, which he started playing in the late '90s, came from a private and placid place; he seems interested in keeping that place as it was.

With the theater's packed schedule and its hyperkinetic boss, Valery Gergiev, the Mariinksy cannot have been a placid place to cut one's teeth.

The press is being squeezed even in placid places like Botswana and Namibia, where the governments, angry with critical coverage in privately owned newspapers, have stopped advertising in some of the more objectionable publications and have ended subscriptions.

"I like to set my novels in places that are seemingly placid, places that are the fruition of the American dream– house, 2.4 kids, two-car garage – and show how fragile that is". But he also wants readers to recognize the Starbucks and dad jeans, "to maybe laugh a little about their own lives".

It was a paradise adorned with golden sandy beaches and placid beasts who roamed around thinking: "My word, isn't this a wonderful and quiet place?

Once upon a time, before people, Majorca was just an island, a paradise adorned with golden sandy beaches for the placid beasts that roamed it to laze around on, thinking: 'My word, isn't this a wonderful and quiet place?

The flat, watery Netherlands, inhabited by respectable burghers of the sort painted by Frans Hals, is normally a placid, prosperous place, and a bastion of enlightened liberalism.