Sentence examples for placid silent from inspiring English sources
Augustine is assigned the archetypal maternal role: she's a placid, silent monument.
At one point the camera lingers on a girl in a dinghy, rocking on placid, silent water, the blue filling the screen; at another, we pause before a magnificent tree on a grassy Californian hillside.
He relies on elaborate texts, meticulous acting, highly confected camera work, and, in this movie, joltingly simple but conspicuous digital effects to evoke the furious whirl of inner life that raises a silent racket behind even the most placid or controlled of expressions.
Unwavering peace might start in a silent forest on an untroubled rock near a placid lake, but you must learn to extend it into your daily life.
Mist clung to placid ponds.
The light was placid, mellow.
I'm usually quite placid.
He is preternaturally placid.
Abramović remained silent and still, enduring thirst, hunger, and back pain (and speculation as to how, exactly, she was or was not peeing), while visitors, confronted with her placid gaze, variously wept, vomited, stripped naked, and proposed marriage.
