After her initial exasperation, she'd seemed to settle into a mood of placidness.
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Spirit, Spirit of restlessness, stir me from placidness, Wind, wind on the sea.
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That intellectualism eventually gave way to a certain kind of even less-compelling placidness.
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Cats can purr, indicating that the animal typically is under a state of placidness.
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Chalons is an ideally situated city, with a placidness which the slow current of the Sane does not disturb.
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The conversation of these innocent and guileless lovers was, as it were, in unison with the placidness of the evening.
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There is more than enough reflection, placidness, crescendos and release to please any fan familiar with the group's work thus far.
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In her whole attitude there is a sort of gravity and placidness, something of the half-asleep air of a person ruminating.
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When the hood was removed it was found that the expression of the face was one of remarkable placidness, while the eyes were a bright expression.
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I glanced away from the romantic scene for a moment and scanned the horizon of the lake before me, searching for any signs the placidness of the water would soon be disturbed.
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His greatest power turns out to be his greatest weakness: he devolves into rehearsing imagined matches against himself repeatedly and manically. Czentovic's deliberation and placidness drive Dr B to distraction and ultimately to insanity, culminating in an incorrect statement about a check by his bishop, and then him conceding the game, after which Dr B awakens from his frenzy.
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"Perhaps an underlying coolness suffuses their countenances," wrote Holbein's 19th-century biographer Alfred Woltmann, "but behind this outward placidness lies hidden a breadth and depth of inner life".Quoted by Michael, 237. Some critics see the iconic and pared- down style of Holbein's later portraits as a regression. Kenyon Cox, for example, believes that his methods grew more primitive, reducing painting "almost to the condition of medieval illumination".Quoted by Michael, 239–40.
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They looked longer and were slower to approaching then the single whorled horses. Lundy ponies with 'left' whorls score highly on calmness, placidness, enthusiasm and friendliness, whereas those with 'right' whorls score highly on wariness, associated flightiness and unfriendliness. Ponies with two facial whorls are rated as significantly more 'enthusiastic' and less 'wary' than those with one or three facial whorls. Whorls on Thoroughbred horses may be physical indicators of a predisposition to perform repetitive abnormal behaviours, i.e. stereotypies.
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