placidness

"My mom had very definite opinions about feminine behavior, and I have to say that there was a placidness to women in the 50's.

Beneath the placidness Rostnikov sensed a seething anger.

Ears : Pricked ears denote alertness, constantly twitching ones nervousness, relaxed ones placidness.

Remaining with us a second night, something, possibly the placidness of the cattle, mellowed the old man and he grew amiable with the outfit, and myself in particular.

In 1896 Balmont married Yekaterina Andreyeva, a fellow translator whose placidness and rationality provided a much-needed counterbalance to his own flashy and emotional character.

The firbolg remained entranced by the music, a look of utter placidness on his face, as the king backed away and fastened the other end of the rope to the stallion.

"Perhaps an underlying coolness suffuses their countenances," wrote Holbein's 19th-century biographer Alfred Woltmann, "but behind this outward placidness lies hidden a breadth and depth of inner life".

"You know," confided the portly Mr. Barre, radiating a Buddha-like placidness in an armchair overlooking the bustling Boulevard St.-Germain, "I believe one should never confuse agitation and movement.

His greatest power turns out to be his greatest weakness: he reenacts the match in his mind repeatedly with all imaginable possibilities so rapidly that Czentovic's deliberation and placidness drive him to distraction and ultimately insanity, culminating in an incorrect move after which Dr B awakens from his frenzy.

When the sun shines, the blue of the oblong lake that reaches right into the city core, the green of the wooded hills that frame it, the tidy parks, the many trees and flowers in the streets and the roof gardens crowning some of the forbidding bank palaces combine into a picture of gracious placidness.