Sentence examples for started calmly from inspiring English sources

An incredulous and apoplectic captain of the Livorno coast guard, Gregorio Maria De Falco, can be heard on the tapes shrieking at Mr Schettino to "get back on board, for fuck's sake!" The evening had started calmly enough.

According to CNN, that wasn't too big a deal: All the parents and kids at the holiday party just started calmly evacuating the building.

Chris Kraft, whose father had suffered from schizophrenia, later related Shea's behavior in one meeting: Joe Shea got up and started calmly with a report on the state of the investigation.

Being affably racist is sort of Spencer's "thing"—a 2013 Salon profile of him found the writer agreeing with his views on big-box stores one moment, only to become horrified once he started calmly advocating for sterilizing minorities.

It starts calmly, with a comfortingly ordinary, bourgeois living room: bookshelves, table, armchairs, pictures, an old man talking to his daughter.

First staged in Zurich and arriving in New York from London, the play starts calmly as two middle-aged couples get together to discuss a fight between their 11-year-old sons that took place, in this version, in Cobble Hill Park in Brooklyn.

The video starts calmly, and ends explosively.

The video starts calmly with just the clerk and his co-worker walking around the store.

It all started so calmly too as Verdasco kicked off with a double fault and then followed it with an ace.

Beginning his round at No. 10, Woods started things calmly enough with a par at the 551-yard, par-5 hole.

Because the Presidential candidates said that they'd lay off each other a little, in honor of the victims, it even started more calmly than an ordinary day might have at this stage in the campaign.