The great irony, of course, is that by requiring the State to place the majority-minority district in a particular place and with a particular shape, the district may stand out as a stark, placid island in a sea of oddly shaped majority-white neighbors.

There would be, in the next day or so, plenty of nice times on this placid island.

It drifted like an island, placid and unconcerned, as if it had never been threatened in its life.

Jay, however, remained untouched, a placid island in an agitated ebb and flow of acquisitiveness.

But in fact, amid the quiet streets of well-tended single-family homes on the city's most placid island, poverty is growing twice as fast as in those boroughs.

The placid green island below harbors a desperate situation, but in the resolution of it lies the answer to the mystery that has haunted me for more than a year.

For a long time, Waterside Plaza was a seemingly placid island in the city off First Avenue, around 25th Street, a village of 1,500 families, secure, self-contained.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

In 1966, I succeeded her as vice consul on the placid island of Trinidad, where she was both legend and hard act to follow.

The logical next step is St. Agnes, just southwest of St. Mary's, a placid island of some 30 cottages, with a 19th-century church and a disused and very old lighthouse in the center.