Sentence examples for sedateness from inspiring English sources

But my instincts tell me that this idyllic sedateness could be the film's ticket to success.

Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, John Lennon, the Beach Boys, and Guns N' Roses, among others, provide pertinent segues between scenes, but they serve only to underline the sedateness of the action onstage.

These official approved products – convertible settees, refrigerators, coffee percolators – had a uniform sedateness.

He said he was "animated" by the freedom of the American writers in contrast to the sedateness of English fiction.

He knows his Northern California turf, from its near- religious faith in the Internet to its lock-step sedateness.

Swift and shiny applied to the rest of the evening as well: at the end, Shostakovich's First Symphony, with its blasts of exhibitionism and inner moments of sincere soulfulness, and at the beginning, Alfred Schnittke's self-conscious prank on Mozartean sedateness, "(K ein Sommernachtstraum".

An exception to the sedateness is the portrait of Roy Neuberger, a Wall Street tycoon and major patron of the arts.

As the 20th century brought with it the rise of athleticism and the lure of the flapper, concepts of comfort, mobility and bodily display began to offset the canons of stoicism, sedateness and modesty that had required cumbrous layers of clothing.