Sentence examples for placid surface from inspiring English sources

We're always aware of something awful under the placid surface.

Though Molly Malone is sung with quiet dignity, O'Connor's trademark ferocity bubbles under the placid surface.

Historians looking back will scratch the placid surface and mock our complacency.

Or more accurately, for telegraphing complex emotions that roil beneath a placid surface.

Yet beneath the apparently placid surface, Drabble's novel seethes with apocalyptic intent.

Yet perhaps in no other country is there so much personal angst beneath the placid surface.

And did you know that killer gases can lurk below the placid surface of a lake?

Scratch the placid surface, however, and the typical workweek teems with fascinating people and events.

But under its placid surface it has also become a hub for trafficking.

Questions about responsibility, violence, sex, fear and death bloom beneath their placid surface.

Beneath apartheid's placid surface, however, lay seething discontent discontent that exploded, inevitably, in Johannesburg.