Sentence examples for placid setting from inspiring English sources

Considering the rude violence of Greek and other early works, who would have suspected that Mark-Anthony Turnage would one day use a children's choir to sing a placid setting of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star translated into Japanese?

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.

Since the first reports of the Cheshire killings, the calculated Clutter family crime in a placid setting and the toxic combination of the two ex-convicts who committed it have brought frequent references to the Cheshire crime as a chilling echo of the events in the Capote book.

There's loads of swarthy vibrato in Dumay's solo lines, as if a gypsy singer would only declaim her song in capital letters – but that sounds at odds with the rather placid backdrop set up by Kent Nagano.

From 1928-30, "Among the Nerves of the World" is a bird's-eye view of central London in which the lines of force are employed and seem like fraying nerves, but in this period Nevinson mixes in sportsmen, or placid Impressionist paintings set at the beach, or densely packed paintings of parties or nightclub crowds.

An endearing small painting from 1932 shows the Wannsee studio as a placid, orderly place set in muted tones.

"Haha Sound" (Warp), the group's forthcoming album, generally sticks to the formula, setting Trish Keenan's placid vocals atop gentle 60's-era arrangements, with occasional detours into electronic sound.

We said our I-dos at 6 p.m., just as the sun was setting over the placid, blue Pacific Ocean.

"They wanted a happy, placid place".

Events thAt were actually of great significance seemed so far away and so irrelevery.  .

Now, let's grab some fermented goat tonic and watch the sun set behind placid Mt. Vesuvius.