Sentence examples for utterly placid from inspiring English sources

Because the San Francisco Bay is choking on 58,000 gallons of oil spilled from an errant tanker — whose pilot could not, in utterly placid water, avoid a bridge (a bridge!) — it's inevitable that a strained analogy be made, so here goes.

FOR THE SWIMMER It's hard to beat Tahiti Beach at the tip of Elbow Cay in the Abacos, a long peninsular stretch of powdery white sand sheltered by palm trees and surrounded by the utterly placid, clear turquoise waters of the Sea of Abaco.

Regardless of tempo the tracks remain placid ambient and utterly enjoyable.

"It was a placid scene.

The biggest jump moment is utterly innocuous, a middle-of-the-night apparition that's in no way physically menacing — but gives a hint of the menace looming beneath the family's placid surfaces.

Mist clung to placid ponds.

The light was placid, mellow.

I'm usually quite placid.

He was eerily placid.

He is preternaturally placid.

Utterly absurd.