Sentence examples for seemingly placid from inspiring English sources

Donald took umbrage, but he seethed beneath a seemingly placid exterior.

It suggests, the researchers said, that even a seemingly placid workplace may contribute to employee health problems like heart disease.

In the meantime, the dispute is revealing long-simmering splits in this seemingly placid place, dividing neighbors, colleagues, even families.

Stanford, like newspapers and music companies and much of traditional media a little more than a decade ago, is sailing in seemingly placid waters.

He also springs some nifty surprises in lifting the veil on the seemingly placid, picture-perfect marriage of Ellen and Dean, whose fervent dedication to playing the roles of ideal 1955 man and wife is founded on a complicated past.

There's brutality and unhappiness in a seemingly placid universe, yet throughout it all, landscape, weather and custom remain indifferent to people's lives: the moon still rises; the muezzin still makes his prayer call; the wind still blows.

He had a languid swing, full of rhythm and tempo, and a placid, seemingly imperturbable temperament.

7.04pm BST NSA director general Keith Alexander has faced the crowd at the Black Hat security conference, being heckled but seemingly finding a more placid audience than he might have expected.

Whatever the extent of the couple's physical relations, Fersen, seemingly accepted by the placid Louis XVI as his wife's occasional lover and greatly trusted as one of his key advisers, would be closely linked to the queen's destiny for the rest of her days.

Unlike a more typical 'gallery artwork,' which may seem comfortably at home within its white-walled confines, Murphy's pieces have a sort of contained energy that seemingly begs to be released from their placid exhibiting rooms and set out into the boundless outside world.

They had conjured up the most placid and ridiculous possible faults imaginable and assigned them to a player, seemingly at random.