Sentence examples for something of a calm from inspiring English sources

Yet 2015 promises to be something of a calm before the storm, at least in terms of the number of new comic-book movies released ahead of an unholy smackdown of films set to arrive via Marvel and Warner/DC between 2016 and 2020.

And yet 2015 ended up marking something of a calm before the storm for comic book fare, with the desperate debacle surrounding Josh Trank's miserable Fantastic Four proving Hollywood is still capable of mining the odd seam of critical kryptonite in among the infinity gems.

For a currency that until very recently could see 50% of its value drop in a day and not have that day stand out all too much, it has been something of a calming of the seas.

He is, according to the author of this new book, something of a cool customer: calm and graceful under pressure, "a difficult man to read, who loved jokes and stories" but who was otherwise remarkably self-contained.

To visit his office was to experience something of the intellectual calm of a tutorial or the moral purgation of a confessional.

There's something of the "calm down dear" in that assessment, which is notable for managing to cram so many insultingly gendered terms into so few words.

Mr. Tuur's music has something of the calm and simplicity associated with his fellow-countryman Arvo Part, but he has been influenced too by the glistening rush of American minimalism.

During the TV interview, for instance, contrary to her reputation as something of a radical, she came across as calm and measured, if somewhat vague.

While acknowledging that he can be something of a showman, friends say Mr. Emanuel has calmed considerably.

Something of the same calm in the midst of storms seems to attend his own voyages as a philosopher.

Mr. Dengler's Vivien seems diffident and genteel, but beneath the calm exterior lurks the passionate soul of an artist with something of a phallic fixation.