| The momentary outburst had subsided to be replaced with the old calmness and placidity. |
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| He looked up at me, incredulous, but it subsided into introspectful placidity, his neck finally unhitching its strained composure. |
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| Water, architecture and nature constitute a balanced environment where the smallest details invite leisure and placidity. |
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| Also thus the poetical reality of caught gestures becomes narrow by the placidity of conquest distance facing the camera. |
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| The artist's large paintings are obstacles to feeling a sense of placidity. |
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| A certain habituation or, shall we say, placidity has settled over the event. |
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| Dig below the surface of Alpine placidity and you will encounter covert chauvinism, racism and die-hard xenophobia. |
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| Secondly, the team has suffered through a febrile 2005, falling off the pace, storming back into the race, and then settling for long stretches of placidity. |
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| But having just avoided catastrophe, the government is displaying Mediterranean placidity, which, in view of the facts, might also be seen as typical southern exuberance. |
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| The landscapes offer a spectacular contrast, undoubtedly unique, between the placidity of timeless countryside and impressive mountain panoramas on the background. |
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| There may be a certain placidity, but there is little that is interesting, in the life of a person whose main object is to avoid thought, work and effort. |
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| In fact, producers and markets are likely making each other's task more difficult. At any rate, I'd be very reluctant to forecast placidity in oil markets. |
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| The wind had kicked up something fierce and the entire bay had transformed from placidity to slapping waves. |
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| So, despite the state's genuine allurements, such as the beauty of its lakes, the renowned placidity of its people and its top-notch public-education system, it has yet to see a big influx of new, highly skilled workers. |
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