Sentence examples for superficially calm from inspiring English sources

This week's event was superficially calm because bloody battles over policy were delayed until then.

"This is not the solution" to end the crisis in Syria, said the woman, pulling her fashionable black wool coat tighter against the sudden winter chill hitting this superficially calm but beleaguered capital.

The superficially calm surface of the teenagers' daily life is interrupted by the arrival of a new pupil, the exotic and beautiful Fiamma, in whom Miss G takes an immediate interest.

Yet, at least in the calm, superficially courteous world of Western academia, debating the precise text of the Koran is increasingly common as at a conference hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), part of the University of London, in November.

Though two late Sounders goals calmed that euphoria, making the 5-3 aggregate look superficially respectful, Portland's win served as a clear rebuke.

That the two women were black, while Loyau-Kennett spoke with a French accent, only completed the tableau of modern, plural London: superficially unrecognisable from the London of 1940, but still a city that knows how to keep calm and carry on.

Superficially, yes.

Superficially quite impressive.

Superficially, they are alike.

But only superficially.

Perhaps, but only superficially.