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was more that of placid affection, serving the loved one softly in an atmosphere, flower-scented and dim-lighted, of ethereal calm .

When you gain optimistic, open-minded, placid and substantial attitude, it's natural for you to be in good mood.

There was no appearance of concentration, no furrowing of the brow - only a placid inner communion.

For the month he was with her, he was described as a quiet and placid little boy who was no trouble at all.

This was no time for red tape and circumlocution, although these have their place in a well-ordered, placid system.

I had lived a placid, uneventful, sedentary existence all my days-the life of a scholar and a recluse on an assured and comfortable income.

"Do just as you please, my dear, " replied Mrs. Allen, with the most placid indifference.

The lake water is placid and has inverted image of ten continuous peaks, as if ten dwarfs were taking care of a blue sleeping princess.

The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid , complacent .

he was trying to plant the seed of revolt , arouse that placid peasant docility.

The placid look at the white ceiling came back, and passed away, and his head dropped quietly on his breast.

Placid and slow, seahorses do not flee from predators, but instead camouflage themselves, changing their skin colour to match their habitat.

His normally placid dog turned on him and bit him in the leg.

Usually placid, the river had been transformed into a thundering, 200-foot-wide torrent by days of rains.

Do not expect that debate to be as placid as the spotless sun.

I looked into the water, and there, mirrored upon its placid surface, was the silhouette of Ustane's stately face.

Like a goddess sculpture, bathed in the rain, with a placid, calm and very modest broad, fulfilling a beautiful legend.

He could see the reflection of Victor's face perfectly. It was like a placid mask of servility.

he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle , a yielding , an impressible or even of a placid nature.

the placid Elbe, and the lovely Danube. Around the time of Christ.

We took advantage of the beached surfers whining about the placid waves and wind surfed through the clear blue water uninterrupted.

The long placid stretches of the river are where people get comfortable.

It does not mean a placid state of mind; it certainly does not mean being idle or using time for day-dreaming.

Placid Burkina Faso is now two-and-a-half times richer.

But despite the placid appearance, this is in fact one of the most volatile places on earth: volcanic activity runs rampant in Iceland. . .

Last month, the normally placid election for president was closely fought, evidence of the newly competitive landscape.

Many usually placid African countries have experienced demonstrations in favour of more representative government.

At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy.

When you own healthy placid state of mind, set your gaol correctly, make your life relaxing and let yourself be bearable .

A cunning psychopath with more than an axe to grind murders the kindly mailman in a small, placid suburban town.

The child had a placid disposition.

The placid sunshIne transformed In a moment Into imperious angry fire.

Be careful of a tendency to become placid and self-satisfied and to overeat (especially sweets).

How could they be so calm and placid when she had just escaped so terrible a fate?

Some observers worry that there is a subterranean current of sexual violence running beneath Sweden's seemingly placid public image.

He passed hours in the open air, sitting with folded hands like a placid, homely household god.

The lake was very placid after the wind died down.

Yet his own account describes an upbringing that was not all placid serenity.

I find that if things get too placid I'm all too happy to insert a little excitement, a little theatrical mayhem.

Only clear, accurate and true messages can stimulate the awaking of the placid , conformist souls.

an equable temper; not everyone shared his placid temperament; remained placid despite the repeated delays.

The placid water swept round in a graceful curve , the rushes bent gently towards its surface .

He was wandering in the woods one day when quite unexpectedly he saw a naked maiden bathing in a placid lake .

For the next two months, life in the village went its placid way.

All the same, raw and volatile forms of nationalism lurk just beneath a usually placid surface.

He would still be placid, good-tempered and forbearing.

But the placid surface of single-party rule conceals vigorous debate within the Communist Party over China's future.

Many bosses regard female workers as "placid" only to discover they often emerge as strike leaders and spokeswoman .

I think I could turn live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long ang long .

These are a placid bear that only eat smaller things like rodents and lizards and none have been known to attack humans .

She was in a placid mood.

The placid lake reflected the image of the old castle.

It was watched closely in Moscow, but the reaction there has been placid.

The 36-hour voyage passed pleasantly; the sea was placid and the weather benign.

Boatmen poling Barges up a placid river.

Christian Bale has been effective in some films, but he's a placid Bruce Wayne, a swank gent in Armani suits, with every hair in place.

The 1932 Winter Olympics, held at Lake Placid, New York, renewed interest in winter sports.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

I am awaiting my contact on a bench overlooking the placid bay between Sorrento and the hazy mountains of Acadia National Park.

In Lake Placid, in 1980, she entered all three women's Alpine skiing events and performed better in each one.

He breathed short, his face wore a placid satisfied expression, and at intervals he faintly murmured 'Poop-poop! '

Immediately after, he becomes engaged to a friend of Elizabeth's, the placid, unimaginative Charlotte Lucas.

The placid lake reflected the image of the trees.

But beneath that placid surface the IMF sees a snake pit of threats.

He's a peaceable and placid person and likes to lead a peaceful life.

The usually placid San Lorenzo river was raging.

A sea is sometimes as placid as a mirror.

So are shoot-outs in normally placid Tunisia.

How did I know what were the thoughts and emotions behind that placid brow and those cool gray eyes?

I enjoy the placid pace of village life.

I think a good listening of the person , she ( he ) has to has a good patient and be placid.

A placid parent makes a placid home.

A change came over Cronshaw's placid round face.

Kari looked up from the picture into the detective's placid face.

but, in general, she has a calm and placid nature.

The placid lake is covered with lotus And the golden carps have large, fleshy bodies, Flocks of wild ducks hide in the reeds around the lake

playing every minute of every game here in lake placid

The sky was huge, the sea was placid

The sun a placid yellow lustre throws;

Yokohama Hotels Yokohama was once a placid fishing village till the end of the feudal Edo, became a major seafront

I saw a big buffalo with mud-stained hide, standing near the river with placid, patient eyes;

thousands miles of the placid river

20 of you are going to lake placid

i ' ve often been asked in the years since lake placid

the placid water of the lake

we ' re playing the soviets three days before lake placid

and this is the family you want to go to lake placid with