In their dreams (and in their long lunches with accountants and investors) the people farmers spin a trance-like spiel about a huge cohort of baby boomers soon to reach retirement, empty nesters without responsibilities, eager to wile away their twilight years in glorious consumption, placidly awaiting the dying of the light.
"Join us to put Fifa back on the right track, where the boats will stop rocking and go placidly into port".
Children who learned at grandpa's knee that the hyena is an evil, snarling beast that haunts the night are sometimes perplexed to see real hyenas placidly sunbathing.
The Belarussian assumes that it must be there for a reason, and so sits on it placidly.
As placidly, I suspect, as the inhabitants of the south-eastern Belgian province of Luxembourg react to the existence of the Grand Duchy of that name right next door.Leofranc Holford-StrevensOxfordSIR – Mr Pantelidis need not have contrived such a far-fetched hypothesis about naming nations.
She attended the New York art shows on the arm of her art-historian husband, Robert Goldwater, like any smiling post-war wife, and brought up three sons placidly on huge bottles of milk, while thinking of the delicious fear induced by milk seeping from the mother, water from the earth, saliva from the snail, lava from the volcano.
Yet Kosovo will not wait placidly forever: this week a bomb in Pristina killed two people.
All such disputes stir up intense nationalist feelings around the region, which makes it difficult for diplomats to settle matters placidly.
India is not misbehaving, says Mr Verghese placidly.
Four buffaloes graze placidly out front, next to a rank of his motorcycles.Cutting out the middlemanIn Kailashpur his opposite number is Chintamani Singh, another Rajput.
THE Nile flows placidly in one direction, but the tides of Egyptian politics, now at full flood, have not been so predictable lately.
