Sentence examples for placid stream from inspiring English sources
SEOUL, South Korea — For half a century, a dark tunnel of crumbling concrete encased more than three miles of a placid stream bisecting this bustling city.
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu's "Pastoral Landscape" (1786) offers an idyllic, sun-drenched vision of a wide, placid stream banked by craggy rocks and big leafy trees, with a stone bridge and an old, walled town in the background.
But evidence from a new and more complete pair of autopsies and three months of intensive investigation by India's top police agency have added surprising power to arguments that the women did in fact drown, as the Kashmiri authorities initially announced, in a normally placid stream swollen dangerously with glacial runoff.
It includes the microscopically fine delineation of trees and a placid stream by the Hudson River School painter Jasper Cropsey; the jerky, primitivistic charcoal lines of a nude by Charles Cajori; the pale, feathery hatching in a still-life by William Bailey; the graphically definitive sketches of people, dogs and cakes from Wayne Thiebaud's notebooks; and much more.
For Perkins it happens to be the best way to fly-fish for the wary brook trout that inhabit the river, a placid meadow stream broken by the occasional rapid.
In his 1980 version of John Constable's painting The Hay Wain, the cart crossing a placid East Anglian stream is loaded with cruise missiles.
Residents of Shopian and other authorities said that no one in memory had drowned in the Rambi River, which is usually a placid and shallow stream.
In the past, Redford, directing such movies as "A River Runs Through It," "The Legend of Bagger Vance," and "The Horse Whisperer," indulged a placid pictorialism of sparkling streams and verdant fields; the movies became slow and soggy.
Kailua was a thriving population center before European contact, a playground for chiefs and rich in farming and fish, thanks to its many freshwater streams and wetlands and placid bay.
Like a sleeping stream, Come rain or sullen shine I'm peaceable.' Stretched to the horizon, placid ploughland, The sky not truly bright or overcast: I know that clay, the damp and dirt of it, The coolth along the bank, the grassy zest Of verges, the path not narrow but still straight Where soul could mind itself or stray beyond.
