Still there was no movement of the placid water.

It is noted for a lake with cool and placid waters.

That ship had suddenly disappeared in placid waters without trace.

On the most obvious level, the placid waters of the 1996 Presidential campaign suggest a nation at peace with its politics.

Gregory sat down and stared out over the placid blue waters of the lake below.

He'd felt for a year as though he were under water: quiet, placid, out of it.

Still spinning, the boat shot out onto relatively placid water.

The argument over the city's waterfront began along some of its more placid waters.

On the bay side hundreds of boats are anchored in the placid water.

They solemnly spat, one after the other, into the placid water.