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"placid" Definitions
  1. (of a person or an animal) not easily excited or annoyed
  2. calm and peaceful, with very little movement synonym tranquil
"placid" Antonyms
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655 Sentences With "placid"

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LONDON — A whale leaping out of the placid River Wear.
Long a placid, drizzly company town, the place is booming.
The country feels restive, placid on the surface, tense beneath.
I'm a placid man, but even I have my limits.
Venus is not a placid paradise — that much we know.
A woman arrived with a large, placid dog named Wendy.
But this wasn't evenly distributed between aggressive and placid colonies.
Krzyzewski stepped back first, his placid features betraying simmering rage.
CreditCreditGetty Images Opera is a pretty placid universe these days.
Mata is, as elite athletes go, a pretty placid soul.
Jessica is placid and effortlessly polite, warm without being intimate.
Creator: Walter Poetsch 1980 Lake Placid, U.S. Name: Roni Roni is the word for "raccoon" in the Iroquoian language of the native people from the region of the State of New York and Lake Placid.
That was a departure from the placid and profitable fourth quarter.
CF: We'll even do wilder shit if people seem more placid.
It was weighty, but placid, even at its most atonal moments.
At the same time, China's once-placid currency has turned stormy.
An aggressor in one environment is a placid resident in another.
The real Lister led neither a plucky nor a placid existence.
Our policies and thinking on China were built for placid times.
Cut to Staten Island last month: flat, placid and goat-free.
Mr. Oberholtzer fears that Oregon Village could doom their placid lifestyle.
In her murder plots, bad things happen in placid Canadian territory.
It reminded me of the placid beauty of the Great Plains.
Mr. Zendejas was placid, rotating the silver balls in his hand.
He primarily projects an air of keen intelligence and placid equanimity.
I shuddered suddenly during my second walk among placid, candlelit groups.
Its weather features killer tornadoes erupting suddenly out of placid skies.
Mr. Groff ("Looking") plays Ford as room-temperature placid yet intense.
The placid charm that masks layers of virulent narcissism and misogynistic rage.
Trump finds himself in the opposite boat: inheriting a placid, solid macroeconomy.
Placid seas reared up in giant waves and rainwater coursed through streets.
After much placid nodding in earnest agreement, I was allowed to leave.
Pinky's pastel-colored universe feels like an embodiment of placid, suburban childhood.
He's not placid in a Zen way, just tepid like room temperature.
Though his lines may waver, my Garfield clones are placid and unchanging.
Now, however, Liddell's placid resignation to his fate may be in doubt.
Wearing a wide straw hat, he navigated us through the placid water.
"And it would snow every winter in Lake Placid, too," I say.
Ms. Ashworth donated her bronze medal to the Lake Placid Olympic Museum.
But the world of "Shadow" is neither placid nor realistic in appearance.
He notes that the willful, flamboyant Roosevelt upstaged the staid, placid McKinley.
"None at all," he said, looking out over the placid morning water.
That included facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Lake Placid, New York.
On Friday, the scene at Trump Tower was placid, inside and out.
The Soviets would score and the crowd at Lake Placid would moan.
However, this relatively placid 2023 parallel has long since fallen apart: Sen.
Annual snowfall at Lake Placid has declined by 18 percent since 1948.
It was easy water to swim in, placid and yielding and vaguely furry.
It is placid but not moneyed, vivid but not glaring in any way.
They steamroll over the initial, placid arrangement in a sudden burst of emotion.
There was nothing about that placid park that suggested privacy from prying outsiders.
But when Hunter discovers she's pregnant, that placid, marble veneer starts to crack.
MIAMI (Reuters) - For months, the 2020 Democratic campaign seemed mostly placid, even cordial.
All was placid in Karen Khachanov's home, if only for a few minutes.
Even in the normally placid world of stamps, Mr. Koslow sometimes encountered controversy.
So the odds strongly suggest that the market won't stay quite this placid.
The mixed action resulted in a placid trading day for the major averages.
The child is placid, the father smiles as though he's seen The Light.
The weather that day was balmy and sedate, the ocean placid and inviting.
Both erupt out of the placid conditions of things happening, unwelcome, uncalled for.
In part as a result, the region is more placid than it was.
He was placid, serene and, in the face of his relentless illness, brave.
After 20 minutes or so, he punctuated placid stretches with tightly managed eruptions.
Of course, as in our own time, the placid aestheticism was also unsustainable.
It is a reminder that the safe, stable, placid life is an illusion.
Their long, alien necks and disjointed fingers, their placid smiles and vacant eyes.
"Maybe a little bit gentler," my father noted, sounding oddly placid, maybe hypnotized.
But one can hope there's something more interesting brewing beneath that placid surface.
That's when you realize how deep the Olympic spirit runs in Lake Placid.
The video, produced by Paco Raberta, chops between placid scenes and armed militias.
Unger's voice is quite placid and quietly observant, even of his own feelings.
At the moment, the teams were facing conditions as placid as a bathtub.
Their placid life is dismantled by hordes of uninvited guests who won't leave.
A sense of chaos has entered the usually placid atmosphere of German conservatism.
It was placid and fantastic, with the crowd swaying and grinning at each other.
The placid appearance of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4889 can fool an unsuspecting observer.
" And you call the inaugural Women's March, from that same year, "vast but placid.
One is a vast river coursing through South Asia, the other a placid lake.
Placid unions, which recognised PSA's difficulties, may become less so as its health improves.
It has also injected a dose of fury into a previously placid election campaign.
Exhausted, Kathleen looked out to the placid expanse of sea and wilted a little.
Technicolor synth lines skitter along over placid pianos and a gently pulsing kick drum.
It was funny because the guy who did it is the most placid bloke.
Protests in Western capitals have mostly been placid compared with the 2015s and 1970s.
Pretty glad to see it in a placid mood over an angry/hungry on.
Distraught neighbors cried and consoled each other as news crews roamed the placid block.
Sansar is visually placid and often beautiful, but it's also startlingly scalable and boundless.
But Wing on Wo's placid atmosphere was a stage for high drama this summer.
Today, the three-block green space, shaded by rare elm trees, is more placid.
PLACID LAKE CT., 2513-Amy L. Hennessy to David S. and Deann Williams, $282,000.
The placid mirage on a strip of the road reminded me of my country.
The Lake Placid arena was an 8,000-seat bandbox shaped like a cockfighting amphitheater.
Steinbach coached the Lebanese ski team at the Olympics in Lake Placid, in 1980.
But beyond this, the compound has a placid feel, with no signs of violence.
The gallery, on a sweltering afternoon, grew impatient, but a seated Ford remained placid.
But then a voice from the past sends a tremor into her placid life.
Quiet and complicated, the twinned androgyny only deepens the picture's curiously placid, operatic feel.
The purpose of this duck is to sit in placid water for your visual enjoyment.
Fifth grade, however, afforded no such placid refuge from the still-ongoing horror of womanhood.
Daddy, it seems, had a bit of a secret life behind that placid businessman facade.
But after moving to Lake Placid to train, Edwards quickly realized the cost of competing.
There are dark truths lurking beneath the show's placid, small-town-slice-of-life surface.
But Hiddleston's combination of placid calm and seething, hidden rage gives it all an anchor.
And on Friday, still another boat sank into the deceptively placid waters of the Mediterranean.
Was there a lesson there about the dangers lurking under the seemingly placid American surface?
The interruption in this placid passage should jar us into thinking realistically about East Asia.
The controversy has divided small, seemingly placid communities, pitting farmer against farmer, neighbor against neighbor.
"It wasn't aggravated or anything like that — it was pretty placid," he told the newspaper.
He gestured toward the museum's innocuous bot swarm, which glowed in placid greens and blues.
Everyone in the situation room is visibly anguished, but Claire and Frank's faces remain placid.
Some of the spiders are more tolerant and relatively placid, while others are more aggressive.
And her on-air remarks were strikingly more placid than her fiery monologue from Monday.
She is the author of the young-adult novel "Placid Girl" (All Ages Press, 2015).
The Russians long ago got over the 1980 Miracle on Ice loss in Lake Placid.
Lake Placid had only about 3,000 residents, and one main street that was always crowded.
Usually, this is a placid spot where Mr. Raftis fishes for red mullet and snapper.
The reverse shows a pine branch with cones, along with the text "LAKE PLACID 2100".
I never thought I'd miss Michael Myers, but his placid white face is oddly comforting!
Sat backstage, their young frontman, Elkin Ramírez was said to have been placid and undeterred.
I'm so old that I remember Lake Placid and the U.S. and Soviet hockey competition.
Spirited monkeys, inquisitive rabbits, placid walruses, and other species come to life in Chie Hitotsuyama's studio.
More often I wrote propped-up in bed; he snoozed, placid and warm, by my knees.
Nine episodes later, they're now debating private speculation about an affair; outside, it's sunny and placid.
As the shrieks stop, one final thud echoes across placid shot, implying Richard killed the woman.
In that film, the forest, like space or the ocean, is somehow both placid and overwhelming.
One might expect periods of economic strength to be placid ones, because firms can be conciliatory.
Frederick Ashton's placid "Monotones II," to Satie's "Trois Gymnopédies," is a ballet capable of coolly sparkling.
Invariably they show a dreamily placid city, with swooping birds and sunsets blazing behind turreted towers.
The placid behavior and concession-granting North Korea fails to represent the worrisome regime's true nature.
Then, near the end, comes "Luminous Beings," which is a dance track but a placid one.
Wind movements were animated by eddies of rippling arpeggios enveloped in placid streams of fused voices.
Dengate of Runner's World runs his local turkey trot in Lake Placid, New York, every year.
"A (for 100 Cars)" was, by turns, a placid deliberation, a thunderous roar, an ambitious lark.
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y., Wenzel won the slalom and giant slalom.
"The Boston Pops played before the race and during the race," she told Lake Placid News.
As Albee marriages go, the one in "Homelife," which opens the bill, is actually rather placid.
When they returned, in their most placid conditions yet, Djokovic seemed to have found his peace.
Gura has the date marked on his calendar: July 21, 2019, the 21st Lake Placid Ironman.
Then there are the suburbs that draw families with placid neighborhoods and high-achieving public schools.
He said he pined for his placid hometown, far away on the shores of the Mediterranean.
The bride will sip the dregs of her third Mickey Mary with an eerily placid smile.
Mary, born in 1945, followed a typical boomer trajectory — from placid 1950s childhood to '60s rebellion.
"Bent Light," one of their debut LP's most placid moments, certainly proves useful in that respect.
That involved placing a smaller, similar vessel off the coast of California, in shallow and placid waters.
Lewis immediately quit his bartending job in Lake Placid after verifying the ticket was a legitimate winner.
"Now that Becky is not interfering, Lilith can inhabit you completely," Ruth says with a placid smile.
That victory was followed two days later by a triumph over Finland that clinched Lake Placid gold.
Even in the film's creepiest shock moments, she's placid and pleasant, which just makes her more disturbing.
IN THE stormy and ever-changing world of global finance, insurance has remained a relatively placid backwater.
Many of the 11 stories in "Florida" describe experiences of upheaval, violent disruptions to life's placid surface.
Only one liquid, called Placid, had lower levels of freebase nicotine and significantly lower nicotine content overall.
Wrapped in his placid mother's arms, he even seems to be serving a "girl, please" side-eye.
But nobody called the police, apparently because shootings do not occur in neighborhoods so wealthy and placid.
As placid as the scenes seem in the pictures I brought home, they are a little misleading.
The Olympic Center features the Lake Placid Olympic Museum and is where the "Miracle on Ice" occurred.
But perhaps my favorite moment came in the Andante, with its variations on a humble, placid tune.
But here she's sort of saying yes, love is important but love is not this placid thing.
Palm trees arch over the placid face of the lake; birds and fish scuttle on the banks.
Standing in that same office last week, Ingham seemed far more placid than she was last month.
Now Europe's crisis has finally reached Germany, even as the objective state of affairs remains remarkably placid.
Beneath his placid, cornfed looks, there's a sense that his still waters run both deep and dark.
And unlike watching the Olympics on your living room couch, in Lake Placid, you get to participate.
Let's remember that moment in Lake Placid when Americans stood together, and American patriotism lit the skies.
While junk bonds are generally less volatile than stocks, don't presume this will be a placid cruise.
Asked about big risks that could shake up this placid picture, both men zeroed in on inflation.
Basic materials and energy stocks, on the other hand, suffered from weakened commodity and placid oil prices.
Bring in Mohna's smoky vocals and crooning harmonies, and it's like wading into a placid lake at dusk.
To the outside eye, this three-bedroom apartment in a placid neighborhood is a hive of a activity.
Melvin Olds Jr., 45, was attacked Thursday after he took a shortcut to get home near Lake Placid.
Table Rock Lake had been placid earlier in the day, and other duck boat tours had no issues.
Though Egypt prosecuted a few ministers from Hosni Mubarak's era, the ex-dictator is enjoying a placid retirement.
He was a post-Council of Trent Catholic, and placid Tallis's influence on him is easy to hear.
He walks with a placid swagger, in and out of the boxing ring, like a velociraptor in repose.
On top of that, Roger Bass, who had defeated Atoy in Lake Placid, had moved up a division.
Since we last saw him, he's apparently been living a placid life as a blacksmith in King's Landing.
The train glides beside a placid Hudson River that mirrors the riotous autumnal colors of the Jersey Palisades.
The arrival of such violence in normally placid Germany has added to an anxiety-provoking summer for Europe.
For most of my life, though, I've strained to hide these fears inside of a placid, unperturbed shell.
The placid drones that open Malibu's contribution "Held" epitomize this form, a Berlin-schooled take on synth drama.
Trump is in the curious position of having an underwater approval rating despite a fairly placid economic environment.
Imagine yourself as the angler on the surface of a placid lake at the top of your head.
Spoiled by this unnaturally placid stretch, many Americans had forgotten what a routine market setback even looks like.
Instead, "Briarwood" is low-key, even placid; it floats from event to event without ever raising its pulse.
In a more placid election, these states might not carry enough delegate weight to seriously rock the boat.
The Parc Montsouris offered open space with rolling green lawns and black swans gliding over a placid lake.
In the background, the Adirondack mountains with, at their feet, a winter sports stadium and Lake Placid landscape.
She was asked to join the U.S. Bobsled team for a training camp in Lake Placid in 2015.
It's located 2,514 meters (8,248 feet) up in the Atacama desert, known for its placid, dark and clear skies.
It must be quiet, private and steeped in natural beauty, whether fragrant forest, mountain vista, waterfall or placid pond.
More than two dozen children suddenly fell ill Thursday at the 4-H Camp Cloverleaf in Lake Placid, Fla.
Scarif's placid waters and white sands seemed a pale imitation of Lah'mu's grandeur, but they would have to do.
They've been like ducks — outwardly placid, especially to guests, but frantically paddling below the surface so they don't drown.
Just east of the zoo, a waterfall drops maybe fifteen feet from a placid stretch of the Bronx River.
That is exactly what happened with Insperity, the once-placid outsourcing company that has soared 52 percent this year.
That is exactly what happened with Insperity, the once-placid outsourcing company that has soared 52 percent this year.
What seemed a little too placid for you last month could actually be the formula for sweet, sentimental success.
In snapshots from NASA's Juno spacecraft, Jupiter's swirling clouds look divinely creamy—but the planet is anything but placid.
It has struggled to adapt to placid markets and a clampdown on proprietary trading (trading for your own profit).
Currency markets have been remarkably placid over the past few months, with implied volatility levels near all-time lows.
Calling out fighters as opponents and criticising his peers—this isn't the usual behaviour of the usually-placid Mousasi.
Beneath its placid surface lies the beginning of what would become degenerate art in the eyes of the Nazis.
And yet Italy, where Fascism was forged after World War I, seems placid in the context of the Continent.
In the Adirondacks village of Lake Placid, the outdoor stores are stocked with gear for swimming, canoeing and cycling.
The gulf spreads sullen and muddy to the horizon, its placid skin broken by distant blisters of flaming steel.
Because the event came before significant snowfall in Lake Placid, the cross-country race was held using roller skis.
While many once-violent rivalries are becoming more placid with the game's modernization, this one is only heating up.
This weird formal style creates the illusion of a placid surface, which is invariably punctuated by grotesque, shocking violence.
The hotel is a 15- minute drive from both the Adirondack Regional Airport and the town of Lake Placid.
Inside, Chi Giang, 36, a placid man in glasses, worked the register as waiters ferried bowls of steaming broth.
Still, worries have grown that months of placid trading may have left stocks primed for an upsurge of volatility.
Strobe lights flashed on the placid face of the patron pink-bowed cat, which beamed down from the ceiling.
She ate voraciously and showed signs of having a placid temperament that was at odds with her sad situation.
Seligman was a highly respected Columbia University economics professor who bought his property at Lake Placid early in 1905.
He's either needlessly scrambling or uselessly placid, trying to fit in when the Celtics need him to stand out.
Going by the daily mean low temperatures for February, Lake Placid (1980) tops the list at minus 13 degrees Celsius.
Before she was making money as a musician, she was waiting tables as a teenager in Lake Placid, New York.
They crossed paths at training camps in Lake Placid, and Cox would see the two of them at skating competitions.
And for her, the contrast between a placid market surface and swiftly shifting undercurrents holds important implications for investment strategy.
He was found dead in his room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York, in May.
China's first appearance in the Winter Olympics was at Lake Placid in 215, where its 22022 athletes won zero medals.
But these two worlds were one and the same, a surreal mingling of its placid surface and its monstrous depths.
Rail supporters, who lobbied to have the tracks upgraded all the way to Lake Placid, vowed to fight the plan.
"We firmly believe the maximum economic benefit and tourism potential will be served by extending the railroad to Lake Placid."
A few seconds later, a sailfish burst from the water, its dark, muscular flanks so unexpected in the placid Pacific.
Kavanaugh refused to echo Gorsuch's placid critique of attacks on that independence when asked about it by senators last month.
I stopped at placid Blair Park, where he and a high school teammate, John Flygare, taught tennis for five summers.
Long, placid lines sound as if they should be as restful for the player as they are to the listener.
As talk shows go, the mood was remarkably placid — perhaps because the pro-Trump hosts never disagreed with one another.
The contrast between the cataclysmic past and the placid present owes something to "Shoah," Claude Lanzmann's groundbreaking 1985 Holocaust film.
In Luigi Ghirri's Colazione sull'Erba, previously unpublished images from the photographer's archive present a sparsely populated world of placid tranquility.
Times Insider The Times wasn't going to send anyone to cover hockey at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
His final victory came in Lake Placid last December, when he drove to a victory in the two-man event.
Pliskova, Svitolina and Bencic joined Osaka, Serena Williams and Wozniacki among the high-profile casualties in a previously placid tournament.
The stock market has been so placid that declines of a mere 1.5 percent have been treated like real news.
But Bernie Sanders' colleagues have a more placid take on the rise of democratic socialist: Bernie can beat Donald Trump.
The jolt to the stock market this week stood out after three straight months of placid trading and incremental gains.
Both pieces poke at what simmers beneath the placid surface of ordinary lives, and what they unearth is darkly disturbing.
A couple of upsetting instances aside, she has remained placid throughout, more prone to asking questions than volunteering confidences herself.
She and Rizwan rented a town house in Redlands, a placid, leafy city ten miles east of downtown San Bernardino.
To assuage feelings of guilt, she seeks to live faultlessly, and creates a family life that is placid but false.
The allegedly placid American nineteen-fifties were regarded, at the time, as a decade of frightening conformity and approaching apocalypse.
By train, take Amtrak to Westport, N.Y., about 40 miles from Lake Placid, and then hop on a scheduled shuttle.
Back then, winter there was synonymous with cold, abundant snow and winter sports (think Lake Placid and the Winter Olympics).
For all I know you might want a simple, placid, pastoral existence on a South Seas island among idealized natives.
Pugh's dark eyes and placid expressions at first give her character, Lady Katherine, the illusion of being passive and docile.
"This could turn into, 'It's snowing in mid-June,'" said Greg Coffin, the head technician at Lake Placid Ski and Board.
Live video from webcams posted in Clearwater and Destin showed half-empty beaches, and whitecaps roiled the normally placid Gulf waters.
However, the placid outlook for credit growth suggests this ratio will increase again in the next report, due in early 2018.
Local media broadcast video of whitecap waves churning the city's normally placid canals of Xochimilco as boats bobbed up and down.
Audiences gobbled these films up, and more contemporary genre entries like Tremors and Lake Placid kept the workingman's creature feature fashionable.
And then there are the countless tongue-in-cheek TV commercials that have made fun of educational films' flatly placid Americana.
Lindsay-the-kind-one assured me it was, in part, because the Gulf of Mexico was not its calm, placid self.
Image: NASA, ESAYou can compare the turbulence inside with this relatively placid 3D video of the more traditional outside-in view.
The greatest threat to America's long and placid expansion is that a new era of wild policy may be just beginning.
He immediately forgets the commonality, and his forehead is once again as smooth and untroubled as the surface of Lake Placid.
It is a placid place of just under seven million squeezed on the map between far more populous and famous countries.
So, Guadagnino thinks, maybe I'll edit a small computer-generated fly into the movie, just so that frame isn't so placid.
But even the novel's hard truths — about aspirations and talent, marriage and friendship — seem softened by a placid sense of inevitability.
Rachel (Emily Blunt) is a woman whose husband Tom (Justin Theroux) has left her for a placid, icy girlfriend (Rebecca Ferguson).
But just as the placid English weather can, on occasion, act in an uncharacteristically volatile manner, so can the country's denizens.
Although she kept her composure, I felt there was something stirring beneath her placid exterior; my grandma simply couldn't stop talking.
For decades, and particularly since the advent of the World Trade Organization, U.S. trade policy has sailed upon fairly placid waters.
Survivors described how the earthquake, from one moment to the next, turned a normal, placid Saturday night into a disaster zone.
The trading activity on Monday threatened to interrupt what has been a placid rise for the S&P 500 this year.
Until Thanksgiving at Skate America, a Grand Prix event in Lake Placid, N.Y., Tennell had never participated in an international competition.
Ghirri's Luncheon on the Grass images a world made of placid emotion and mundane events, such as a Sunday family meal.
The Lake Placid bobsled experience goes for $95, which includes a team shirt and 20 percent off your second bobsled ride.
It caught McConnell and his Senate allies by complete surprise, and threw the President's relatively placid defense team into triage mode.
His placid face, now reddened and twisted by anger, had contorted to a point where I felt I should look away.
At the time, interest in the 1980 Lake Placid winter Olympics was high, and, Johnson happened to be a professional skater.
Wilbur, however, a placid 180-pounder with a fondness for orange peppers and daylong naps, is about to leave their ranks.
Now she couldn't see past some new barrier in his eyes, as if behind it he were placid and settled, hardened.
The expression on the sculpture was as placid as always, making it seem like just another day for the cow head.
There are lookout towers and walled fortresses, placid farmhouse settlements and destroyed cities that exist in a permanent state of rubble.
Franklin is there to sing, and her composed, almost placid expression when she's not singing is the picture of something like peace.
"In my worldview, a placid stock market produces bounty in its own right, and that may be what's happening here," Cramer said.
She's used traditional local corn weaving techniques to produce these futuristic fluorescent objects that the placid bulls each sport on their backs.
Shots ring out in placid neighborhood The apartment complex, La Jolla Crossroads, is located near the University of California San Diego campus.
Mostly the pieces are Carrara marble, imparting a placid, chalky white appearance that runs counter to the deliberate chaos of the compositions.
Eliasson added that he expected both the Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve to hold interest rates steady, continuing Monday's placid tone.
Not too far away is Cape Vincent, with an 1854 lighthouse that overlooks the passage from placid river to sometimes treacherous lake.
Nuclear threat Trump's restraint in responding to McCain reflected a largely placid attitude in Asia, even toward leaders with whom he's feuded.
He was born to a family of painters in 's-Hertogenbosch, a placid city referred to by the Dutch as Den Bosch.
"As somebody who had panic attacks about mortality on and off life, I was surprised about how placid I was," he said.
Now even this relatively placid area of one of the world's most prosperous countries feels perilous to those who witnessed the destruction.
In January, an audience at the New School was treated to a surprising sonic shift: placid jazz quickly evolving into punishing metal.
This movement between the placid and the chattering never seems forced or anxious, but rather like the product of a collective's communion.
It is the reason that Ski Magazine readers regularly select Lake Placid as the best ski village in the Eastern United States.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — On a nondescript block in this placid Long Island town sits a house that is perennially ready for Christmas.
There were tasteful bronze sculptures of naked women here and there, and a path around a placid lake built for contemplative strolls.
Living in A top-rated elementary school and easy highway access are among the attractions for home buyers in this placid neighborhood.
He split his time between there and Lake Placid, the two places believed to have the only bobsled tracks in the nation.
But the arrival of Hitler's army in the Netherlands in 1940 puts an unpredictable pressure on the tenor of this placid life.
Host of the Winter Olympic Games in 22002 and 21998, there are plenty of Olympic sports in to do in Lake Placid.
Lake Albert looked placid from the Ugandan shore, but its waves often battered and sometimes even sank rickety canoes crossing from Congo.
Most start out similarly: A protagonist is introduced in a seemingly placid suburban scene, and then disaster — usually of the natural variety — strikes.
Watson's performance is placid and poreless, a collection of minimalist smiles and forehead-beetling frowns that do nothing to emphasize the story's stakes.
Qualifying was difficult: Although he had twice completed the Ironman distance race in Lake Placid, N.Y., Mr. Blumencranz is not an elite athlete.
Where the river once coursed without break, settling into a familiar pattern of placid water followed by white rapids, now it bottomed out.
Scroll through the gallery to see all the hints you may have missed this nightmare is located in the placid town of Cambridge.
The "Street" was more urban, diverse, frenetic, in-your-face and funny, while the "Neighborhood" was more suburban, homogeneous, placid, polite and sweet.
Sophia, a professional librarian and one of just a few black characters, is conveniently placid about her status as a third-class citizen.
Her new album, "Front Row Seat to Earth," is full of songs that feel placid on the surface but troubled at the core.
Melania's sort of placid-terror compound facial expression is actually iconic, imo—the perfect emotion for 2k17—and I won't hear anything otherwise.
But this aesthetic makes it all the more wrenching when the reader detects a flicker of anguish on one of the placid faces.
Some people — with, one would assume, blissfully placid brains — close their eyes, and they're lifted away from the crushing anxieties of everyday life.
They lost to Princeton in the ECAC championship game at Lake Placid, N.Y., but earned an at-large berth into the N.C.A.A. tournament.
"I have a bit of a background in Nordic combined," said Lussi, a native of Lake Placid, N.Y., where the competition was held.
The department also retains two very large, placid rabbits, Clovis and Lily, who pay visits to patients not inclined toward potting and pruning.
PARELES "Head Alone" sounds at first like placid folk-rock, with two strummed guitar chords behind the Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin's reedy voice.
He planned to finish training in Lake Placid this month before traveling to East Tennessee State University to continue training over the summer.
Schumer's push — at an event at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y. — comes days before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics begin.
No water, except for the placid irrigation ditches: the giant rainbirds dripping; white transportable plastic pipes at the edge of rows of lettuce.
"The trouble is, Jane Austen lived such a quiet, placid life that there isn't a great deal of drama in it," she said.
Of course, no ink-stained wretch could ever be as compelling as the placid man who changed the popular conception of childhood itself.
But for perfectly silky chicken breasts, cooked without drying out or turning rubbery, a placid poaching is the most reliable way to go.
Here's a handy guide to the controversies that followed the best picture nominees, from the problematic ("Bohemian Rhapsody") to the placid ("Black Panther").
At the time, Lake Placid was a popular retreat with fashionable clubs and luxury "camps" known for their bigotry against Jews and Catholics.
Here's a shot with the Great Red Spot looking so placid you might forget it rages with winds up to 400 miles an hour.
Her placid, beautiful face and her deliberately unnatural body language suggest a woman living a complicated internal life, without any external sense of herself.
The lake had been placid when the tour began, but weather forecasts, radar, and National Weather Service alerts warned of a pending severe thunderstorm.
Although its lakes are full of ultra-cold liquid methane and ethane, they could be placid enough for future space probe to land on.
Downstream from an ecological disaster brewing a continent away, these placid waters are bearing the brunt of a foot-born problem: your flip flops.
The latter album was hard-charging and stylistically broad; new single "Gesceap" starts out placid and cool before building to a frenzied, overwhelming finish.
Their society has found a biological trigger to shut down human feeling, creating cold, placid, orderly communities where the people resemble mildly judgmental robots.
Sedaris created "At Home" with her longtime friend and collaborator Paul Dinello, who also appears in the second episode as a placid bouzouki player.
Another Harare resident, who watched a cricket match Wednesday evening outside the old presidential house, also wrote on WhatsApp that the city was placid.
"  Lithgow — a frequent critic of Trump — continues: "But a 10-year-old story leaked out from his past,And yanked him from placid obscurity.
The only time the United States have topped the Winter Olympics medal table was when they hosted the Games at Lake Placid in 1932.
The rest of Germany thinks of Karlsruhe, when it thinks of it at all, as a placid city where the Supreme Court is situated.
Emergency crews responded to the "mass casualty incident" at the Clover Leaf 4H camp on Thursday evening in Lake Placid, Florida, the department said.
" Brendan of OPIT doesn't think people will ever stop taking the law into their own hands: "Even the most placid of people will react.
It's for this reason they borrowed the Demons name—there's beauty in the idea that something special and sinister hides behind a placid facade.
We could watch the waves crash violently on the sea wall while pushing Roxie back and forth in her swim tube in placid water.
Women's speedskating was given so-called demonstration sport status at the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., but those results did not count.
The memorial, which opened at the site of the attacks a decade later, replaced a knot of steel and debris with a placid plaza.
And although there is something placid and soothing about it, there is also almost a lull, a white noise buzzing, a numbness of repetition.
But before Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio, CT Tamburello, Cara Maria Sorbello and the rest of the cast invades, the space is placid, clean, and quiet.
She attended the first combine, in Lake Placid, N.Y., and then a second a few weeks later at Olympic Park in Park City, Utah.
To see this paired alongside the placid, fabricated world of the water park (replete with its chlorinated pools and snack bars) feels incredibly Orlando.
In the sentence, "We visited Troy, Rome, and Utica on our way to Lake Placid," the comma after Rome is considered a serial comma.
As the pastor's state of mind deteriorates, his composure remains placid — and yet when it finally breaks, we've somehow been expecting it all along.
He went to a combine for the sport in Lake Placid, N.Y., and did well enough to earn a spot in an elite camp.
In placid pursuit of the pollinators attracted by the neat rows of purple flowers, a massive snowy egret saunters the grounds, unruffled by passing admirers.
The terrifying incident, which was captured on video by CBC Sports, occurred on Saturday during a World Cup bobsleigh event in Lake Placid, New York.
As an artifact and a symbol, Birds crystallize what irks some longtime residents (including me) about the recasting of placid West LA as Silicon Beach.
Sanchez's performance against Lamas showed signs of a tough weight cut and was much more placid than what has been seen in his last bouts.
In her final qualifying run in Lake Placid, she finished third to become the first African athlete to medal in skeleton in an international competition.
With Washington in gridlock over health care and FBI hearings destabilizing the capital, Cramer said Europe's once-concerning politics "are looking downright placid" in comparison.
"Again, there's plenty of unseen worries, ones like Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 that wrecked a perfectly placid summer," the "Mad Money" host said.
Our unease indicates that we've absorbed the unsettling truth saturating her stories: that placid surfaces often camouflage the rumblings of disquiet, transition, even rebellion, beneath.
Yet the painter knew that Beth B's talent for revealing the melancholy truths beneath life's placid veneer was learned at the foot of the master.
Even so, Mr. Frost said, there is an element of melancholy in the music that is hard to pin down, given its predominantly placid harmonies.
The lengthy "Ad nos," however, is all but symphonic, with dizzyingly virtuosic passages that provide blurry-handed thrills and placid interludes that Mr. Levit relished.
The second wife to collude with her husband's clandestine adventures (the first, Donna, even brought him the occasional snack), Ms. Foos remains a placid enigma.
After years of being placid, markets have been on a roller coaster, routinely rising or falling by more than 1 percent in a single day.
In the proliferation of cultural signs and symbolism boiling in the undercurrent of the seemingly placid 1950s, wrestling operated as a tautology of American righteousness.
The temperatures are low (but, on average, warmer than, say, Lake Placid, N.Y., this time of year), and wind is a steady and silent accomplice.
But as much as Lake Placid offers a wealth of exhilarating outdoor winter recreational activities, it is much more than a quasi-Olympic fantasy camp.
Chances are, your ancestors did not get on a boat because life in the old country was placid and prosperous and grandpa owned a bank.
The so-called VIX has spent months at historically low levels, reflecting a placid market mood that seems to have evaporated over the last week.
While this drop is jarring because it's come amid a rather placid rally in the market to new highs, it is not all that unusual.
Gripping it with his right hand as though setting down a glass, he rests his left palm on his obliques, his downturned face placid, remote.
CreditCreditSusan Wright for The New York Times A paradise for skiers, the Italian Alps of South Tyrol offer a more placid pastime that's surging anew.
In the voiceover that carries I Am the Night to its hopeful conclusion, Fauna reflects on her recent journey with placid wisdom beyond her 16 years.
ALPHARETTA, Georgia — Karen Handel sits at the diner with a placid look on her face and delivers a scathing critique of her opponent, Democrat Jon Ossoff.
The lake had been placid when the tour began, but weather forecasts, radar, and National Weather Service alerts warned a severe thunderstorm would impact the region.
The paintings' calm brushwork and dollhouse-miniature scale create a mood so placid that even the burning objects appear unperturbed by the flames that lick them.
After all, Schwartz, as far as she knew, was just like everyone else in her placid community — the fair-skinned descendants of mostly Eastern European Jews.
At 41 years old, this legend retired from the NBA on Monday afternoon, turning an otherwise placid day into one of mourning, appreciation, and joyful nostalgia.
These forces mean that a placid expansion can continue well beyond historical norms, but also suggest that the way it will eventually end will be different.
The video itself evokes a frantic 1800s Moulin Rouge: Dancers in red hoop skirts hurl themselves around a placid Cunning, who wears a long black gown.
She has credits in a bevy of TV and films including Lake Placid, Hollywood Heights and voiceover work for cartoons like Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
It commands you to gaze upon its placid solidity and tempts you to imagine how you will use every single one of its many, many ports.
This is why her placid gaze is so disturbing: It is the face of a White House whose deceptions and outrages have become all too normal.
During the nineteenth century, English thinkers like J.S. Mill and George Grote worked to reimagine tumultuous Athens as a forerunner to the placid, liberal Victorian commonwealth.
In the video for the song "Hold Up," Beyoncé strolls down a city street, a placid smile on her face, as she carries a baseball bat.
Ms. Cyrus, largely composed and placid on the stand, became emotional when discussing her trip to the hospital after Garrett was discovered strangled in her apartment.
Created with the help of VR artist Sander Sneek, she's realized a purple-filled world and placid lakes, where its ethereal inhabitants can walk on water.
Can the electronics that strip the paint off of Jeff Witscher's placid pianos on "ok, American Medium" be as conducive to reflection as more genteel drones?
"Enmeshed" is almost atonally placid, briefly broken up by an insistent rhythm at the front of the mix, before it falls into 20 seconds of silence.
"Three Peaks" has a placid surface, but Zabeil uses abstraction — with edits that elide information or play tricks with spatial perception — to deepen a trite scenario.
As the New York Times reported in 2011, the village is a lesser-known tourist attraction, and visitors can fish, shop, and eat near Lake Placid.
At first, the dancers took turns sitting and staring; outwardly they were placid, but inwardly, as their flickering eyes hint, their bodies were on high alert.
Emails leaked to the Miami New Times from Norwegian Cruise Lines revealed that a placid brand messaging strategy has been taken on throughout the travel industry.
Hiking and kayaking were also on the agenda as were more placid pursuits, like picking mushrooms, including the ones above he is showing to Mr. Shoigu.
What's more, the market has been so placid this year — despite the turmoil emanating from Washington — that the calm on Wall Street has been almost supernatural.
Some offer access to prominent hiking trails, such as Tirrell Pond, which lies along a particularly scenic stretch of the roughly 130-mile Northville-Placid Trail.
HEMINGFORD ABBOTS, England — It is the sort of English village that you might find on Christmas cards: a medieval church, a placid river, thatched cottages, swans.
Steven Langton, who won gold along with Holcomb in the 2012 World Championships in Lake Placid, said the team was sporting rubber bracelets to honor his legacy.
No, more than a placid drift through interstellar spheres, Lindstrøm has set about careening wildly through a field of concussive synthesizer arpeggios and big dumb kick drums.
It's also the main feature it knows to apply to new images, turning a placid snowy scene into a vision of the heat death of the universe.
Because these placid stocks are also classic defensive plays, investors have been flocking to the group amid the intensifying trade war and signs of an economic slowdown.
In a nutshell, even as the former deliver worse and worse news, especially about a temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius or more, the latter remain placid.
MLB has enjoyed relatively placid labour relations since 2144, when a devastating players' strike caused the World Series to be cancelled for the first time since 217.
Rather than a placid coastal scene, Kasearu has rendered a constant, sobering reminder of the impending "Great Flood," one of her many imagined demises to the museum.
Officials tell PEOPLE that 26 children mysteriously became sick at Camp Cloverleaf 4-H in Lake Placid, on the same day and were rushed to local hospitals.
The album's second half is brighter and more placid, leaning on soft synths and murmuring, indistinct vocal samples that brush by like a breeze on your skin.
Jackie Chan has broken every bone in his body at least a thousand times and is still one of the most placid, cheery dudes on the planet.
An abandoned canoe, the only evidence of humans in the entire exhibition, rests at the water's edge, threatening to drift away into the placid, silver-blue water.
There's no way those faces would look nearly as placid while announcing the earth-shattering removal of the world's biggest celebrity from the world's most powerful office.
These days, when even much of Europe feels fragile and volatile, there are far worse fates than landing in one of the most placid cities on earth.
There, three armed men stare at a 750-foot stretch of placid, blue-green water waiting to lift 33,000-ton freighters up along the St. Lawrence Seaway.
The 33 children and three adults were at the Cloverleaf 4H camp in Lake Placid, Florida, when they were taken to local hospitals Thursday night, officials said.
The stock market's bullish reaction to Friday's placid jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department gave CNBC's Jim Cramer pause as he looked ahead to next week.
We lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, 13 train stops apart — I in Danville, a placid East Bay suburb, and he in the bustling Mission district.
In the upstate New York village of Lake Placid, home to the Winter Olympic Games in 2129 and 2813, it is much more than an existential question.
One video shows Ms. Maiolino on the floor, struggling toward the viewer; another was made in a car driving through a beautiful landscape that looks deceivingly placid.
Placid and measured in his words, he wore a navy sweater and a string bracelet not normally seen on the wrist of a 63-year-old man.
" For Lennard, the 2017 Women's March had been "vast but placid," much like most marches, which she argues often amount to little more than a "grand parade.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that a homeowner called 911 to report that her neighbor shot her cat in Lake Placid, about 85033 miles southeast of Tampa.
By combining faithfulness to the music with imagery plumbed from his myth-drenched imagination, Mr. Williams has added otherworldly, almost feral dimension to this placid love story.
The recent stock market gyrations should remind us that when seemingly placid markets correct, the downdraft can be powerful, and that placidity can rapidly transform into turbulence.
But then after hours trading began and the security, popular with hedge funds betting on an ever-placid market, was off by 23 percent in extended trading.
Apollinariia Panfilova is tossed into the air during the Junior Pair Free Skate at the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Lake Placid, New York.
Perhaps most compellingly for many Americans right now, the project shows swing states like Florida, Nevada and North Carolina as pleasing, placid abstractions, neither red nor blue.
What these images show isn't necessarily the power of the storm -- though it is intriguing to see the placid blanket of white and imagine the roiling storm.
Whiteface Mountain, Lake Placid, N.Y. "As a former Olympic venue, Whiteface Mountain is a bucket-list place for skiers with respect for history," Ms. Glusac told us.
All are cavorting, swimming, boating, or sunbathing at the lake; however, none of them would have been admitted into either the Lake Placid Club or Morley's Hotel.
The couple are intrusive, inserting themselves into the placid life of the poet and his wife, asking invasive questions and making themselves entirely too much at home.
Addicks and Barker Reservoirs are swaths of placid Texas prairie, wetland, and forest straddling I-10 where it hits Highway 6, about 20 miles west of downtown Houston.
The BoE's chief economist noted the apparent "disconnect" between the historically high levels of political uncertainty and the "remarkably placid" response evident in the financial markets at present.
But the tone among Chinese thinkers was more placid on Thursday at an event on China's economy that was hosted by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
The personal trainer is amping up for his first-ever Ironman this July in Lake Placid, New York, and says his intense training regimen has totally taken over.
Folks like Estrella (Paola Lara), a placid girl of around ten, who lives alone with her mother, until the day she comes home and finds no mother there.
To these "real rap" defenders, the problem wasn't just that Yachty was singing, it was the sugary melodies he picked and the placid production that he sang over.
They reveal how seemingly stable systems can flip from one state to an entirely different one: from stasis to industrialisation, say, or from placid financial markets to crisis.
She has a number of TV and film credits including Hollywood Heights, Lake Placid,  and has done voiceover work for cartoons such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Alton is a messiah figure for a church of eerily placid devotees who take the numbers he recites during his periodic seizures as a form of holy scripture.
Remember too that the placid reaction in financial markets to Brexit was largely driven by expectations of policy-maker safety nets, not a reassessment of the actual damage.
The technology being used to tap the lake's gas is cutting-edge; but this generation of wildcatters is not the first to see power beneath its placid waters.
In public, both parties are content with placid negotiations and #inspiring photo opportunities for now, but as Brexit marches on, things are likely to get a lot messier.
ENDON renders a tumultuous ten minutes into placid organ-filled ambient work that is quickly superseded by Aaron Turner of SUMAC's snarling verses and chaotically warped discordant noise.
And I like that the arrangement here stays simple throughout; the song builds, but you never get ripped out of the placid, lovely little world you're transported to.
Joined by the fully responsive pianist Malcolm Martineau, Ms. Karg's Hahn had an elegance that was never placid, full of nuances of volume and speed, tender yet cleareyed.
The Olympic Regional Development Authority in Lake Placid will have a hand in managing the broad, flat trail that will be used for bicycling, walking, skiing and snowmobiling.
Or rather to say there's a rumor going around based entirely on speculation and dripping with hearsay that Liddell's placid resignation to his fate may be in doubt.
While this experience may have seemed delightfully decadent at one time, Shoshy classified it as "wasteful" — especially as there were few customers to enjoy the placid shopping scene.
Hans, her placid German Shepherd, ushers me into their cozy one-bedroom abode, kept comfortable thanks to Korkejian's strict "one in, one out" policy for any new items.
Germany's once placid political system had, over the past five years, been thrown into chaos by the rise of a new populist party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Holcomb, who competed in three Olympic Winter Games, was found dead in May 2017 in his room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York.
I wonder what these Canadians would say if they could stand in a ruined house, look out on a placid lake, or go skating in the community rink.
Whiteface Mountain at Lake Placid is expanding its ski school, renovating two lodges at the base of the mountain and adding a warming hut on the mountain top.
But the results announced on Wednesday also revealed a decline in Goldman's trading might, which has been drained by a potent combination of placid markets and quiet clients.
Somewhere in the ensuing conversation, I brought up my idea for a LA LA LAND-themed puzzle (with only the entries WALLA WALLA and LAKE PLACID at hand).
It's probably not good for America that every election — even an off-year special election in placid suburban Georgia — feels like a struggle over the future of civilization.
This year, on our way to Obertauern, we drove past the Chiemsee, one of the placid Bavarian lakes you pass before you begin the climb into the mountains.
The relatively placid ads of the 22008 Democratic campaign reflect the risk-averse primary contest, in which candidates have been loath to unleash any negativity on an opponent.
The "Matrix" series centers on Neo, a Christlike figure who discovers that humanity is being kept in a placid dream state by machines and starts to fight back.
The radical shift from that detail to his more placid Central Park post partly parallels the city's decline in crime and its soaring tourism, especially in Central Park.
Water gets sipped as tea, but is also shown powerfully dashing off cliff faces, and then goes placid again, becoming a smooth surface on which to skip stones.
On emerging, they're suddenly facing a scene out of a dream, with a huge earthen head seemingly halfway submerged in water, its cracked eye reflected in the placid pool.
And you have magic on your side, able to use laser beams to mind control unruly pupils — although abuse your power and they'll morph into placid, test-taking pineapples.
Germany were last on the podium at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games, winning bronze, and before that it was the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics where they also won bronze.
And while the Clintons are remembered fondly by many of the island's residents and business-owners, the Democratic nominee for president herself wasn't always in a placid mood here.
With much of the world riven by political strife, it may sound odd to plead for more of it in one of the few countries that has remained placid.
When things start to feel like too much, I drift away into an ambient record—a celestial drone from a reclusive synthesist or a placid collection of field recordings.
According to friends, the Chadwicks appeared like a perfect, placid pair, married for 21 years and raising three sons in a $2.5-million mansion in the Newport Beach area.
But Fink warned that some investors' comfort with calm markets could lead to "a setback" or even "a mess" if trades betting on placid markets start to do poorly.
THE Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale café and restaurant overlooking a placid lake in Dhaka, was a foodie's labour of love in a verdant corner of the chaotic capital.
Why were even their milder siblings — placid Pam, brother Tom, and their refined, aloof mother, Sydney — also fascist sympathizers, happy to visit Unity in Munich and socialize with Hitler?
At the High Peaks Cyclery, an outdoor gear store and guide company in Lake Placid, the business focuses on mountain biking, canoeing, camping and fishing this time of year.
The horrific killing of a woman jogging in a wooded area near her home in Howard Beach, Queens, has brought a sense of dread to a usually placid neighborhood.
Softly photographed by Bjorn Stale Bratberg, who brings equal care to the film's pristine Andean locations, María's placid exterior hides a resolve as steely as that of any financier.
They are now roiling Germany's placid, consensus-driven politics and threatening to alter its political landscape as insurgent parties have done in less stable or prosperous countries around Europe.
Part of that has to do with Merkel's placid disposition; part of it has to do with the EU structures and processes that bind the hands of European leaders.
But the impending nuptials in Danai Gurira's fiercely funny new play, "Familiar," about a Zimbabwean-American family in Minnesota, make even the most fraught weddings seem comparatively placid affairs.
She is meticulous in her design: the stone is "Lake Placid Blue" as her homage to Yale's blue and numerals use Bembo font as a link to Yale publications.
The scariest thing about the market right now is the shocked response of traders who had become accustomed to the unsustainably placid conditions that have been unceremoniously swept away.
The shots are so still and quiet that we grow nervous, except when the passion and madness bubbling beneath the placid exterior break into passionate violence or passionate sex.
Today, the placid waterway is once again playing a supporting role in a grand vision, albeit one its architects want to etch in the statute books, not in stone.
Denied her own career, she dedicates her life to building his, her placid demeanor inscrutable as she weathers his towering ego, copious philandering and careless dismissal of her talent.
Holcomb was found in a dormitory at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., where he had been training in the off-season, his agent, Brant Feldman, said.
A week after the two were found unconscious, slumped on a bench in the placid city of Salisbury, British Prime Minister Theresa May gave a dramatic address to Parliament.
For a snowy getaway, Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid, N.Y., has a two-night package that includes wine and cheese on arrival, two massages, dinner for two and breakfast.
In keeping with the Zen Buddhist paradox that "form is emptiness and emptiness is form," the placid order is an assembly of inked and empty areas, with nothingness predominating.
Traversing the country's coast requires venturing in and out of fjords, which is inefficient; and rough waters on the open ocean occasionally strand boats in an inlet's relatively placid waters.
The placid music creates an odd tension with the images of boarded-up schools on Tucson's east side, illustrating what basically boils down to a broken socioeconomic and educational system.
In the organization's digital content, the caliphate is depicted as a veritable Eden, a place where placid lakes literally teem with fish and the well-fed children are always smiling.
The worse the chaos becomes the more you grit your teeth and ignore it, laugh it off, and plunge all the resentment and confusion you feel beneath its placid surface.
Kimura tried to launch himself into a flying knee, but instead launched his face into the looping right hand of Bennett to send the normally-placid Japanese crowd into raptures.
This sector of the industry has been beset by a largely placid and gently rising market, which generates little of the volatility needed to force banks' big clients to trade.
"It's apparently open mike day in the Republican campaign for president," I tweeted last June, after Mr. Trump barged into a relatively placid Republican race with a rambling, riotous speech.
What if the green had been exhausted and the placid mirror of Dal Lake had been smashed, revealing layers of dead bodies and desert that lay on the lake bed?
The keys, he says, are particularly gentle cooking of the beans — no stirring and the most placid of simmers, with bubbles that barely break the water's surface — and extra vigilance.
Tretyak was on the accomplished Soviet team that lost to an American squad filled with amateur players at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
And now there's nothing left for Serena Joy but to host and smile and offer placid answers to an ambassador asking what it's like not to be permitted to read.
The funding was led by Hunt Technology Ventures, with participation from other investors including Placid Ventures, David S. Hunt, 1517 Fund, Invariantes Fund, GrowthX Fund, NFQ, and Telegraph Hill Capital.
Still, for some veterans of the Legislature, the somewhat placid progress this year was actually a relief from decades past, when stalled budgets would sometimes drag long past their deadlines.
Residents of Malaysia's placid coastal town of Kuantan hoped the ECRL, launched a year ago, would boost economic activity through the link to the Malacca Strait, a key shipping lane.
"It was all so lucky because I didn't know too much about what I was doing," she said, summarizing her success in an interview with Lake Placid News in 2016.
If you want something a little less nightmare-inducing, here's a far more placid Larson-helmed 1983 album called Plantlife that I've been listening to for the past half-hour.
Whether it turns out to be the one before the storm is a compelling question after a year of conditions so placid that investing has begun to look deceptively simple.
It worries about postwar social conformity, anti-intellectualism, McCarthyism and the homogenizing power of the new medium of TV to flatten out differences in thought and make its audience placid.
" In his review of the movie, Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that Ms. Headly was a "terrific comedienne" who had the "placid beauty of a Renaissance Madonna.
As seaplanes glided to dock and women in sun hats sipped aperitifs, scores of African migrants gathered, looking at the verdant mountains standing guard between the placid lake and Switzerland.
The arrangement is pretty but placid, without the urgent emotion of the original — even though the song is the same, the production is polished and Ms. Nicks's voice still lovely.
Weirather's mother, Hanni Wenzel, won downhill silver in Lake Placid in 1980 and remains the only Alpine skier from Liechtenstein, male or female, to claim a medal in the downhill.
Shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit, and watched by about a dozen troopers who attended the hearing, Mr. Walters seemed placid as he answered questions from Judge John W. Hallett.
They feature a placid looking Pepe smiling, without any of the Hong Kong–specific details typically used with Pepe during demonstrations, like a bloody eye patch or yellow hard hat.
There is no destination in sight, but the intimacy between each couple and the placid warmth of the palette suggests that wherever the people are going, they will be content.
Unlike on Long Island, relations between the Russians visiting the Maryland compound and local residents have generally been placid — even if the Russians did not always adopt the local folkways.
"You should see our sunsets, they're absolutely spectacular," Ms. Mercado said of the vistas along a placid but gritty swath of former landfill, where swans glide near chain-link fences.
In the final, he kept a lid on his anger and managed to end placid Swede Bjorn Borg's five-year, 41-match winning streak at Wimbledon, defeating him in four sets.
Until then the Palestinians under Israeli rule had remained mostly placid, while the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), dedicated to the removal of Israel by force, conducted cross-border attacks from abroad.
In any case, the sharing of false or misleading headlines and mass posting by automated "bots" appears to have had little influence in a placid German campaign, the report's authors said.
Many sports fans have been comparing their Olympic victory to the "Miracle On Ice" (when US hockey beat Russia at Lake Placid), which took place 38 years ago to the day.
I have come to their headquarters amid the placid farmlands of Sparta, Wisconsin, a one-stoplight town with a population just under 10,000, to learn how fiberglass public sculptures get made.
But during a boat trip through the Florida Keys in January, I grew familiar with the rhythm of the islands, their placid waters hiding jagged outcroppings that can easily draw blood.
Markets have remained placid this quarter despite key elections in France and the U.K. and some setbacks for Trump's economic agenda, making it hard for Wall Street to make a buck.
"Winter sports and Lake Placid go together like wildlife and forests," Robert Flacke, New York State's commissioner of Environmental Conservation at the time, told The New York Times in January 1981.
On this placid fall evening, the erstwhile Carrie Bradshaw was all grown up, and dressed in a jeweled Dolce & Gabbana gown that Nan Kempner might have worn to the Met Ball.
Anderson seems equally placid and unhurried on her part, which makes the whole affair seem (as it did when a sneak preview was shown to critics in the summer) slightly off.
The deaths left them questioning how the lives of two men who had withstood years of war could end in a placid office on the first floor of a training school.
Starting with thinkers like Freud, ice has been used regularly as a metaphor for the deeper, darker parts of our mind, for traumas buried and covered over with a placid surface.
With his close-cropped silver hair, gnomish goatee and general air of placid competence, he could have been an actuary or an I.T. manager — that is, until he opened his mouth.
It is home to the Blue Lagoon, a placid pool fed by the Caribbean Sea that is surrounded by waterfalls, a lush green jungle and a string of idyllic beachside resorts.
ERIK: Earlier this year, Paolo mentioned he'd had an idea for a LA LA LAND puzzle; he had WALLA WALLA and LAKE PLACID but was having trouble finding more theme answers.
She has a voluble Twitter account that deals extensively with the etiquette of the quiet car, a supposedly placid zone adjacent to the first-class compartment, where cellphone conversations are banned.
For years, Rich Donnelly has arrived in darkness at the old Olympic speedskating oval in Lake Placid, N.Y., and crossed the finish line of the Ironman triathlon held there each July.
Steven Holcomb, the bobsledding star who drove to three Olympic medals after beating a disease that nearly robbed him of his eyesight, was found dead in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Saturday.
Bill Henfey Park, three blocks from the beach in the New Jersey shore town of North Wildwood, is a placid, grassy rectangular expanse with a children's playground tucked in the corner.
Shorting the placid VIX through levered trading instruments like the XIV, the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term exchange-traded note, was a lucrative way to play the low-risk environment.
Ms. Gruner's 2007 video "Centinela" involves a severely modern fountain and a solitary observer who lends a Romantic mood to its changing evocations of placid pond, ocean waves and thundering breakers.
For Benedict, the python's Olympian feats of digestion made it worthy of study, but he was nearly as impressed by its placid disposition — a highly valued trait in a laboratory animal.
Earlier this month, USA Hockey Olympian Mike Eruzione -- one of the heroes of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" at the Olympics in Lake Placid, New York -- expressed support for the women's boycott.
Surveillance footage of the robbery shows the men hurriedly entering the store, walking up to display tables, and grabbing a bunch of devices as customers and employees stare on with placid astonishment.
For now though, I float in the deep swimming hole near the cabin, toes poking above the placid water, staring upward at the greying bridge silhouetted against its bright blue backdrop, serene.
In spite of the Brexit referendum, the economy has surprised many with its resilient performance with Andrew Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, describing the financial market as "remarkably placid".
Self-driving cars are no longer confined to controlled test tracks or even to placid suburban streets—they're tackling real traffic in US cities such as New York, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh.
If you can ignore the inherent range anxiety, or don't mind draining the battery and then switching back to the V8, driving it in electric mode is a pleasant, almost placid experience.
"I remember doing the film The Rage in Placid Lake years ago with Ben Lee, about the kid who rebelled against his bohemian parents and became an accountant," Byrne told the magazine.
Other scientists wonder if the deaths of the placid animals, which divide their time between the ocean and inland rivers, are related to wider changes in the climate and rising sea levels.
The Canadian Prime Minister's toothsome grin is in your old high school friend's Twitter feed, where he's kayaking on a placid Canadian lake and paddling up to their parents to say hello.
That dual-identity takes another shape as Delos management finally realizes that Bernard is really a host, rather than the placid member of management he has appeared to be for so long.
As U.S. health officials move to halt the virus' spread in Miami, where the disease has raged for weeks, markets have been surprisingly placid in the face of the growing health crisis.
Langton, who had also won gold along with Holcomb in the 2012 World Championships in Lake Placid, felt that was the sign that it was time to say goodbye to the sport.
With Washington in gridlock over health care and FBI hearings destabilizing the capital, Cramer said Europe's once-concerning politics "are looking downright placid" in comparison, making it an attractive buy for investors.
A fragmented piano melody, a gentle hum from Atkinson, or one of Cantu-Ledesma's placid synth lines can become a tugboat in the alien waters, guidance in the midst of confusing environs.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell threw aside his usually placid appearance as he tore into Senate Democrats for the second straight day, accusing them of filibustering a deal the country needs immediately.
Bambi Pedu, the director of the library in Lake Placid, in the Adirondacks, worried that drug addicts would start to use in the small-town library if they knew it stocked naloxone.
A new skate blade disrupted his jumping at the Skate America Grand Prix competition in November, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Chen's coach also cited poor technique and lagging confidence, among other issues.
A wrenching series of scenes follow, depicting the full range of grief that M experiences, with Mara's big eyes and placid exterior cracking in ways that feel so real they're almost unbearable.
But their friendship, which had blossomed in their placid hamlet in northern Malaysia, was destroyed late last month when Norazila, 143, discovered that Ayu, 214, had secretly become her father's third wife.
White House memo A placid face and a willingness to expect the unexpected has become the price of admission for any foreign ally who hopes for a productive audience with President Trump.
The arena, previously known as the Lake Placid Fieldhouse, was the venue for the 1980 Miracle On Ice, when the American hockey team upset the Soviet Union to win a gold metal.
But when he gloats about killing a rhinoceros, displaying the carcass on his phone, her placid demeanor cracks and a war of wits ensues with race, inequality and immigration at its core.
Away from Lake Placid, Lake George and other more crowded regional hubs, are several smaller hamlets that provide access to a handful of exceptionally remote lakeside campgrounds reachable only by pontooned floatplanes.
"Many a hedge fund manager figured they'd take advantage of the market's placid nature ... by loading up on XIV, which was a way to bet against volatility," the "Mad Money" host said.
J.C. The placid folk-rock arrangement of "Imagining My Man" holds internalized torment and confusion, as Aldous Harding, a songwriter from New Zealand, ponders a relationship that's hovering in a troubled limbo.
Liechtenstein was among the most peaceful places I'd ever been — including the famously placid Pacific islands and San Marino, the European micronation located entirely within Italy I'd visited a few months earlier.
An ex-Swedish prime minister had to respond to the "last-night-in-Sweden affair" — an ominous incident in a placid Scandinavian state dreamed up in his refugee delirium by Donald Trump.
Art fair booths can often be placid excursions into commercial flatness; how can we present the works by our best-selling artists in a way that they'll end up selling some more?
The $2 coins, or "toonies" as they're colloquially called, depict two people in a canoe on a placid lake surrounded by trees, with the lights of the aurora borealis in the sky.
The stock market is starting to feel caught in its own drawn-out war against stubborn threats, and its own expensive, defensive posture has come to dominate Wall Street despite a placid surface.
If you're not deaf, and if you're even remotely familiar with popular American culture, then you've probably heard the ebullient cry of Al Michaels from the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
But when a hacker starts leaking Salemites' information — dirty secrets, venomous words, porn histories, basically everything you most want to keep private — the town's placid veneer of respectability dissolves into flames and gunfire.
Arie Luyendyk's season of The Bachelor wasn't interesting until he up and dumped his final pick in the finale, and Nick Viall's placid season relied on Raven Gates' orgasm to make things interesting.
More surprisingly, the lovely ballad "Some Kind of Love" soars, surrounding Flowers's electronically garbled moan with a plaintively quivering net of stark piano chords and thick cool air, a placid loveliness that delights.
The high-profile fleet breakdowns have highlighted the armed forces' broader struggles with trying to raise their level of technical readiness as traditionally placid Berlin moves cautiously toward a more interventionist global posture.
While embracing this DIY, "punk" ethos in its radical democracy, hardvapour flips vaporwave's sluggish, placid bliss into a frenzy of beats now closer to traditional formulations of punk as a loud, rebellious style.
Republicans, meanwhile, are more engaged than they were in the comparatively placid 2014 elections — but not quite as hyped as they were in the 2010 midterms when the GOP won back the House.
Certainly not Granato, who recalls being a 15-year-old kid watching the so-called "Miracle on Ice" game, when the Americans beat the Soviet Union 4-3 at the Lake Placid Olympics.
Whether you're headed out for a paddling trip on a placid lake or a deep sea fishing adventure on heaving swells, if you're not wearing a good life jacket, you're doing it wrong.
"This cowardly act in what has long been a scenic and placid park has killed dozens of innocent civilians and left scores injured," National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
The Bird battles, plus the influx of the tech industry residents into Westside neighborhoods, has led to a lot of ill-will towards tech companies seeking to disrupt life on the placid Westside.
CARAMANICA If you think of Jay Z and Beyoncé as the royal couple, and even when there are whispers and hints, the sort of placid royalness of them has really never been perturbed.
Hannah is placid, just trying to get him to leave her apartment with his stuff, while Fran has worked himself into a major lather, furious that Hannah won't even consider working things out.
Mandy is mainly signified by her sighing love theme, which underscores her role as a placid, stabilizing presence for Red (and—it's somewhat implied—for the idyllic pine forest the two live in).
Not a Jersey Girl adds an important element of historicity to an exhibition that is not located in a placid, white-walled space, but in the space of a once important pharmaceutical factory.
As an instrumental record, there's little in the actual sounds that directly lead toward these themes, but in the placid geometry of these intersecting lines you can feel Hauschildt straining toward something greater.
So sometimes I'll just be as calm as a placid lake for six weeks and, suddenly, out of nowhere, there's this roar that comes out, and it is like dropping a nuclear bomb.
Now he was frozen in fear in this particular bathroom and in all the bathrooms simultaneously; he looked down from a hundred windows at the little boat on the placid man-made lake.
" Visually, the show's Los Angeles, where much of the action takes place, is closer to the placid metropolis of Spike Jonze's "Her" than to the rain-bitten version of Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner.
Being back in the Waterford house as everyone insists with a placid smile that they're just so happy to have her back after she was "kidnapped" is as disorienting as it is infuriating.
It is an extreme way to live, but in the end Gotland, despite its reputation for placid beauty, is pretty extreme itself: remote and wind-whipped and fierce — with, finally, a corresponding architecture.
We swam up the chilly Titou Gorge, where sunbeams meandered past 23-foot rock walls, and we ate sandwiches next to Freshwater Lake, crisp and placid one moment, obscured by fog the next.
Belousova and Protopopov said they were too busy to have children, but they enjoyed working with young skaters in the summers in Lake Placid, the site of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics.
Especially up on the roof, though, with the spires of Manhattan hazy in the distance, I felt a little on vacation, too — willing to let my impatience go quiet, open to placid pleasures.
The two-way race on the Democratic side between former Mayor Karl Dean of Nashville and State House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh has been placid in comparison; Mr. Dean is favored to win.
A cliff almost 50 feet high loomed over a river canyon, six waterfalls streaming down its side into a placid green flow over which a wooden footbridge wound its way past metal risers.
The placid community of about 1,63 single-family houses, built around the time of World War II, is best known for P.S. 188, one of New York City's top-rated public elementary schools.
Before the storm hit, the water apparently seemed placid enough that the boat's captain allowed children to try out the captain's seat as the vessel moved onto the lake, the N.T.S.B. timeline showed.
As he gloats about killing a rhino, displaying the carcass on his phone, her placid demeanor cracks and a war of wits ensues — a tangle of race, inequality and immigration at its core.
I had my heart set on going to Lake Placid, N.Y. It would be my first Olympics, even though I was midway through my 41-year career as a sportswriter with The Times.
On the day of Gray's funeral, the mall, in West Baltimore, had been a flash point of confrontation among police clad in riot gear, protesters, and looters, but now the scene was placid.
Pet City Bailey, a 24½-year-old goldendoodle, lived a placid, largely uneventful life on a block of handsome brownstones in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, until 24:230 on the morning of Oct. 5003.
The tracks suggest the seething emotion beneath Tommy's placid exterior — Nick Cave "is Tommy's spirit animal," Ms. Mandabach said — and the soundtrack benefits from the fact that "Peaky Blinders" is popular among musicians.
But on Friday evening, this placid town of 216,203 on the outskirts of Minnesota's Twin Cities became the epicenter of the fight for humane working conditions at one of the world's most valuable companies.
Amid extraordinary scenes at its headquarters in the placid Madrid barrio of Argüelles, the party's general secretary, Pedro Sánchez (pictured), clung to his post for three days after more than half his executive resigned.
"This cowardly act in what has long been a scenic and placid park has killed dozens of innocent civilians and left scores injured," U.S. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
Humphries and her teammates, Cynthia Appiah, Genevieve Thibault and Melissa Lotholz, finished last in a 212.5-sled field in Lake Placid, N.Y., by a huge margin, but they were not disappointed in the least.
The placid prairie town sits a solid hour's drive south of I-2000, the interstate that most travelers use to blow across 425 miles of Kansas cornfield and cattle pasture as quickly as possible.
By the placid standards of German politics, the pro-business Free Democrats' (FDP) unexpected withdrawal from coalition talks with Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU and the environmentalist Greens on Sunday night is a substantial ruckus.
Miyahara, who missed part of last season due to a hip injury, built on her lead from Saturday's short program with a near flawless performance in the free skate in Lake Placid, New York.
In 2049, the new replicant models are designed to be more placid and subservient, but Dutch newcomer Sylvia Hoeks manages to display insecurity and brutal disdain beneath the cold exterior as villainous robot Luv.
The event had a living raccoon named Rocky as a mascot but the animal died shortly before the Games, leading to the creation of Roni, whose name was chosen by Lake Placid school children.
Things in the normally placid world of open source hardware are heating up as major figures in the Maker movement have begun speaking out against the current managing director of Arduino AG, Frederico Musto.
The expectation of many in the sport was that Langton would re-unite with Holcomb but in May, the pilot was found dead in his room at the Olympic Training Centre in Lake Placid.
Read More Markets still set for more volatility despite placid trading Meanwhile, teen retailer, Aeropostale is hoping to ride the wave of momentum created after Abercrombie and American Eagle reported strong earnings last week.
The lazy eye becomes a metaphor for Europe's treatment of these homeless migrants as Rosi lyrically places scenes of the islanders' placid everyday lives against the momentous struggle of the migrants crossing the sea.
The normally placid German celebrated wildly when he sank an eight-foot putt at the 18th hole to defeat Steve Stricker and seal Europe's 'Miracle in Medinah' comeback victory in Illinois four years ago.
Although our city has never hosted them — the 103 and 210 competitions in Lake Placid, N.Y., were the closest we've come — we'll no doubt be well represented at Rio 22016, which begins on Friday.
Slater, a slight, soft-spoken Englishman in his sixties with a youthful, amazed demeanor—he could be an especially placid incarnation of the Doctor, in "Doctor Who"—walked me to the campus coffee bar.
WEIMAR, Germany — Residents of Weimar flocked to the German city's central park to escape unusually scorching heat this week, setting up picnics and watching bees skitter across the wildflowers near a placid reflecting pool.
As any veteran urbanite can tell you, cities heave and swell, bend and buckle; they can go eerily placid and then rise up again to slap you down, just as a restless ocean does.
Goffin, normally one of the tour's most placid players, was irate from the beginning of the match and received a code violation for launching a ball out of the stadium after only two games.
A small, idiosyncratic and proudly placid country, Belgium has none of the long and bloody entanglements in Muslim lands that have made the United States and neighboring France such obvious targets for global jihad.
A placid guy with tiny silver hoops in his ears and a hipster's dusky beard, Pineno does tasking four days a week and, like Bobby Allan, works in his remaining time as an actor.
"Queen of Mosquitoes," the third single from the record (premiering below), is the sweetest and least hurried of the lot, floating along on a placid Hammond organ, peppered with little literary references from Coomers.
Lounge music, a blurry, placid style of music born in the early '50s from the bombast of big bands—and readopted in the 90s in a fit of nostalgic revisionism—is essentially functional music.
Steven Holcomb, a three-time Olympian and gold medalist in bobsled, was found dead of an apparent drug and alcohol overdose at the United States Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y., last year.
The Empire State Winter Games begin today, giving more than 2,500 aspiring professional athletes the chance to compete at an Olympic venue — Lake Placid in the Adirondacks, home to the 1932 and 1980 Games.
On arms sales and defense exports, Congress has been a placid institution and a spectator despite the fact that both the House and the Senate are integral components in the process under the law.
Mr. Sample gives the generous, not-too-bright Jeremy a placid likability, and Mr. Royo (whom many will recognize as Bubbles, the heartbreaking heroin addict from "The Wire") makes Ashley a charmingly resilient rascal.
The new territory includes spectral, flowery folk from a 2004 album by Beady Belle, a Norwegian jazz group, and placid singer/songwriter fare from the finger-picker José González, a Swede of Argentinean heritage.
Most home invasion films subtly portray the white American victims as coddled into a deceptively placid existence by the trappings of modern capitalism — one that leaves them hopelessly unequipped to deal with the intruders.
Think of Pris's manipulative shy-girl act in Blade Runner , Kyoko's placid, mute unbuttoning of her blouse in Ex Machina, or the bright red dress of Six and her wet, hot, world-destroying kiss.
Over a drunken dinner, Italian resident and design lecturer at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Simone Simonelli told me that cultural and attitudinal tensions still bubbled beneath the surface of the placid town.
Our placid day of foraging was a reflection of the unprecedented peace and prosperity that Poland enjoys today, but the very landscape we walked was indelibly marked with reminders of the not-so-distant past.
What most impresses me about Togetherness is the way that it's willing to be a series about tiny pebbles dropped into otherwise placid ponds, with the aim of observing how the ripples affect everything else.
Steven experienced a particular kind of depression known as "agitated depression" that isn't signaled by the slumped shoulders, flat faces, and placid sitting in an armchair seen in the "before" part of commercials for antidepressants.
His last film, "A Bigger Splash" (2015), placed two pairs of lovers—played by four gorgeous actors—in a picturesque Mediterranean setting, and watched as their jealousies and rivalries slowly ruined the placid, pleasing surfaces.
Lộc's bánh mì attracts tourists to Hoi An, a beach city in central Vietnam that has placid riverside cafes, a lantern market, and a party scene that hints at too much Chinese money and influence.
Without getting into the statistical weeds, it's another "oversold" condition, one that says traders are paying up aggressively for a possible sudden spike in market risk, despite the still-placid behavior of the indexes themselves.
Ordinary people living under the thumb of cruel dictatorships are in a perpetual state of placid terror, trying to go unnoticed, and those characters are all over The Death of Stalin (and disposed of unceremoniously).
A rebellious slate of candidates who this year upset the normally placid balloting for the Board of Overseers at Harvard has failed to secure positions on the board, which helps set strategy for the university.
Spalding, who is older by eight years, is an extrovert and a risk-taker, qualities that, combined with her placid cheeriness and thoroughgoing sincerity, make her seem something like a good witch: formidable yet benevolent.
This tale of a soldier's return to the town he left under shady circumstances years earlier has the structure of a 19th-century melodrama in which the sins of the past overtake the placid present.
But as long as a city continues to live its normal, placid life, which is the sort of life it lives up until the very last instant and the final quiet evening, war seems impossible.
In the flat, placid grid of the piece "Permutation 8" (2018) the pins interlock in a skein that might indeed go on forever, evoking a chiasmus of the line from the famous William Blake poem.
At Lake Placid in the Adirondacks, about a five-hour drive from New York City and Boston, there is a fully operational, authentic alternative for those feeling left out of the Olympic party this winter.
He took over shortly before the beginning of the show's story, at which point he shunted Elliot's "real" personality into the placid alternate reality he entered after having been knocked unconscious when Whiterose's machine exploded.
The second is a growing onslaught by the devil's many manifestations, culminating in its full-on stalking of and assault on David's girlfriend, Syd, in the placid white room he created as their safe space.
"[Mangione] flew himself out on his own dime to play at the opening ceremonies — he plays the flugelhorn and the trumpet — because he in fact actually played at the Olympics in Lake Placid," Kinsey shared.
A charismatic bruiser with a baby-soft face and piledriver body, Bradley favors a dry turn of phrase — when asked how he's doing, he responds "South of OK, north of cancer" — and a placid demeanor.
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As temperatures (and passions) rise in the throes of summer, Irina disrupts the placid social scene by introducing a successful novelist, Boris (Corey Stoll), to Nina (Ronan), a free-spirited young woman from a neighboring estate.
But when Mia, a nomadic artist running from a heartbreaking childhood, and her alluringly brilliant daughter, Pearl, arrive in this placid community to lease the Richardsons' rental property, explosive secrets are suddenly ripe for the telling.
HILLSDALE, N.J. — In some neighborhoods of this placid New Jersey borough in Bergen County, they are seemingly everywhere — waddling by the dozen in the road, perched on car roofs, pecking at the tires of delivery trucks.
The scene inside the San Diego Convention Center during Trump's speech was relatively placid, while outside demonstrators opposed to his controversy-ridden White House bid marched and chanted, carrying signs criticizing his rhetoric against illegal immigration.
Robert McCormick of Glass Lewis, a proxy advisory firm, says such a large vote suggests that usually placid asset managers, such as mutual funds, may have joined the green revolt alongside pension funds—more established rebels.
Venus Palermo (aka Venus Angelic) was perhaps the most famous of their first wave, appearing on the UK's Daybreak and My Strange Addiction dressed in full skirts and Mary Janes, accessorised with a preternaturally placid smile.
No doubt, these more legibly musical segments are sorrowful, distraught, and placid, but it's an inviting sort of depression that ask you to slow down, sink in, and turn yourself an abyss that you yourself chose.
When we meet on the back patio of a Brooklyn coffee shop in the middle of June, the 26-year-old Scott is disarmingly placid, her ice-blue eyes beneath a black Planet Hollywood dad hat.
After the second procedural vote failed, McConnell threw aside his usually placid appearance as he tore into Senate Democrats for the second straight day on Monday, accusing them of filibustering a deal the country needs immediately.
In the Argentine artist group Mondongo's "La Raza que aguanta" (The Enduring Race, 2011–12), what appears to be a placid, painted ocean is in fact the site where bodies were dropped during the Argentine dictatorship.
The total cost of the voyage is estimated to be about $3 million, including fuel costs of about $2 million, said Eric Zipkin, whose Tunison Foundation owns one of the C-47 planes, the Placid Lassie.
But he had called a single hockey game before — ultimately paving the way for Michaels to make one of the most memorable sports calls in history during that year's Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Its placid nature piqued Wall Street's interest, leading to the rise of leveraged trading vehicles like the XIV, the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term exchange-traded note, as ways to short the low-volatility layout.
But, the placid scene is soon revealed to be a dream envisioned by an imprisoned Aguilera, who's locked up in an underground facility and forced to perform her choral art by a legion of faceless male figures.
Holcomb, 37, who came back from a suicide attempt over impending blindness to win Olympic gold in 2010, was found dead in his room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York in May.
The expansiveness of the space and the experiential emphasis made it more like an art amusement park of sorts, the spectacle of which was honestly refreshing in the aftermath of the mostly placid showings of Frieze Week.
Blackall's ocean is variously placid, rippling, luminescent, angry, violent, frozen, gray, green, cerulean, black; her waters surge and recede, but her red and white lighthouse and its bearded, contemplative keeper remain stolid and constant — until they don't.
"This cowardly act in what has long been a scenic and placid park has killed dozens of innocent civilians and left scores injured," U.S. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement, according to CNN.

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