| 单词 | placid |
| 例句 | They are a contented group, placid and good-natured, although, like any family, they bicker from time to time. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Beneath Virgil’s placid surface was a terrible ice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From where I sat, the neighborhoods appeared placid and almost toylike, but the reality was in many cases far different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Caleb’s expression is placid as the bus sways and jolts on the road. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He preferred women who were placid and well rounded, and the sight of Blanca stretched out on cushions looking up at the sky during their siesta reminded him of his mother. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I woke warm and placid in my white cocoon. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I saw a slow smile pass over the calm, placid face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The placid innkeeper’s expression was like a shattered mask. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A small wrinkle of concern marred her usually placid forehead. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z To watch their usually happy, placid baby cry in pain was horrible. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For a heartbeat Dany thought she saw a flash of anger in those placid eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The normally placid, slow-moving ox was now on a rampage. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I wanted somehow to explain this to Mrs. Croft, who was still scrutinizing Mala from top to toe with what seemed to be placid disdain. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He’s also learned that Henry’s placid demeanor is shattered with the right poking. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Except the frail, dim figure of Mercer; the old man faced him, a placid expression on his face. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Her hair is calm, a placid yellow lake around her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A time bomb was ticking at the heart of their outwardly placid, inwardly unstable little family universe, and he was afraid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Crane-man’s normally placid expression was replaced with a frown of worry when Tree-ear stumbled into the space under the struts and collapsed in a heap on the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She wanted to leap into those placid blue waters, to feel clean again, to swim and splash and bask in the sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Many, especially the baleen whales, are placid browsers, straining through vast volumes of ocean for the small animals on which they graze; others eat fish and krill. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a stout and placid man, and when he’d sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z You could almost make out the placid expression on Adam’s face, which had two blooming gardenias for eyes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Someone who wanted to cower and be sheltered from every storm in life, someone who wanted an easy, placid, dull, nothing existence? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z My pleasant, placid expression, combined with forward momentum, gets me to Prince Dain’s chambers without so much as a second look, even though I lose my way twice and have to retrace my steps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Beyond him was the placid, soft-eyed face of the donkey, Lotus. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The terrace sloped to the lawns, and the lawns stretched to the sea, and turning I could see the sheet of silver, placid under the moon, like a lake undisturbed by wind or storm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On each calm placid turn the fish made he was gaining line and he was sure that in two turns more he would have a chance to get the harpoon in. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her tone was placid and calm, but Pinmei saw that her hand gripped the door tightly. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Very critical times indeed,” Colonel Korn agreed with a placid nod. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z His normally placid expression was fierce and hard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He’ll have faced his own placid death and slipped without a sound inside himself. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z To our right the choppy waters of the Artibonite rushed away, and to our left were a few small vessels plying the placid blue waters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Abnegation, normally so placid, speak to one another in tense whispers and glare across the room at the faction that has become our enemy. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The placid composure of his face was so profound that he seemed hardly to be aware that Singer was with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His expression is placid as he examines his cuts, turns off the water, and dries his hands with a towel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A few seconds after my eargear was attached and activated, I began to hear the placid monotone of the HR mainframe, droning instructions and other information. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I contemplated the lake: the waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountains, “the palaces of nature,” were not changed. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z The placid voice of the autopilot welcomed us aboard, then told us to strap in and prepare for takeoff. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Esteban, who had not had a chance to get to know his daughter, mistook her placid amiability and her eagerness to set the table with the silver candlesticks for love. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The rangers had no better luck with the other garrons; not even the most placid wanted any part of these burdens. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Bigger’s eyes were wide and placid, gazing into space. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her placid, gentle face wore a rather disappointed look, because the dogs usually spied her long before she got to the house and would rush to greet her. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Below Wall on the west is the forest; to the south is a treacherously placid lake served by the streams that drop from the hills behind Wall to the north. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z There was no one, only the placid tabby cat gazing at me from under the shelter of the eaves. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I scan their faces, trying to look as placid as possible. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Even C. C. Spaulding, heir to Booker T. Washington, could feel the tremors coursing beneath placid Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Do you like this sunrise, Jane? That sky with its high and light clouds which are sure to melt away as the day waxes warm—this placid and balmly atmosphere?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “It is good you have each other,” said Mrs. Bowles in the same placid voice. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw the face of Mr. Edwards, saw it lose its placid self-sufficiency and dissolve into murder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This new little Darwin had a happy and placid temperament. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, placid and happy, Blanca was in splendid health for the first time in her life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought there was plenty of room here for the placid tiger to make himself comfortable on the cool brick floor. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Melyngar neighed uneasily; Hen Wen, placid and agreeable until now, began to roll her eyes and mutter to herself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z One moment he could be placid, the next he turned into choppy waves that broke hard and stung. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He had no way of knowing about the bloody secret that Kopenick and its placid waters concealed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It eased him into a placid mood, at least for the trip’s duration. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z From this distance they looked as placid as cattle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If things had continued as they were, he might have lived out this placid, unnatural life until he died of old age. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Directly behind them in the west everything was a deep and placid early-afternoon blue. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the marina the water was like a lake, sheltered and placid, but as soon as the Frog cleared the retaining walls she took the hall Pacific Ocean head on. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And, somehow, Dad passed along to us the illusion that placid old Rena was a taunt ship. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z O-lan had lain herself upon the bed after the cooking of the meal and the child lay beside her—a fat, placid child, well enough, but not so large as the first one. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His face twisted; he no longer looked like the stranger who had arrived in Asgard a season before, placid and even-tempered. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She has never looked more out of place, with her gray slacks and gray jacket buttoned at the throat, her hair in its simple twist and her face placid. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Behind the weary lines and the placid innkeeper’s expression he looked no older than his darkhaired companion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Earth is a lovely and more or less placid place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He no longer tried to fight, but acted stunned as if for the first time there was some illumination, some comprehension of the enormity of the resistance in a once placid kingdom. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t get any lobsters, so you will have to do without salad today,” said Mr. March, coming in half an hour later, with an expression of placid despair. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z If I died this minute it would go on like that, placid and helpful, like an electronic afterlife. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Rather, he sat still, placid as a little Buddha, stabbing out one startling move after another. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I suspect that is a wise man,” remarked Mr. March, with placid satisfaction, from the hearthrug, after the last guest had gone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z What private aches nagged him beneath that placid demeanor, none could say. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The beach at the end of this road was backed by low, rolling dunes, which flattened out to a narrow belt of sand before giving way to the placid gray water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I search her face for a sign of what she has lost—her father, an Abnegation leader, didn’t survive the attack—but I see only the placid determination characteristic of my old faction. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She seemed a placid creature altogether—eminently respectable—perhaps not over intelligent. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “When do you return to America?” he asked, trying to sound placid. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Otherwise he was himself — large-faced, dimpled, with eyebrows that rode nervously up and up, away from his flat, wide, placid nose. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee Scoresby looked down at the placid ocean to his left and the green shore to his right, and shaded his eyes to search for human life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled, placid, as he observed some art student doing a live demonstration of pottery. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It looked like a great placid lake out there in the bay. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A series of buoys stretched out into the placid water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Hysterically the frogs displaced from their placid spots swam ahead of the crazy thrashing feet and the feet came on. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The tents were still, the water was placid, with the ripples still drifting slowly out from where he’d been drinking. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was an evening in summer upon the placid and temperate planet Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he was stone-still; the white cat bounded past him and leaped upon the desk; it sat looking at him with large placid eyes and mewed plaintively. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Beside the house, shading it in summer, stood three mulberry trees, the fledged leaves that would later be broad and placid as the palms of hands streaming flatly undulant upon the driving air. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The winds were gone, and now it was just water, placid water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The one crack in his placid bearing was a persistent stutter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Though the cubs grow to become larger than their caregiver, and far more dangerous, they never give their mother trouble and she never loses her placid behaviour or her sense of authority over her litter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Although her face was as placid and kind as always, Tree-ear saw in her eyes some great worry that even her gentle smile of greeting could not hide. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z At work he’d see signs of his luck turning — a run of placid chickens, a mistake in his wages to his favor — every time something new to fuel him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed placid to me on the platform, but something about that stillness makes me wary now. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Alexandra had been and was still technically married to a large placid man named James Hancock, who ran a cotton warehouse with great exactitude for six days a week and fished on the seventh. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She smiled, and pinched my arm, and I thought about being placid, how quiet and comfortable it sounded, someone with knitting on her lap, with calm unruffled brow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The earlier breeze had died down, and the water was placid, smooth and glassy, tinged with bronze in the slanting late afternoon light. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were wearing a different uniform from the combat soldiers outside, but they carried the same hardware and had the same placid expressions. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals were overweight and placid, but for an instant one of them had gazed at him with the same expression. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet, the feelings in the air were not all placid. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z There were tasteful bronze sculptures of naked women here and there, and a path around a placid lake built for contemplative strolls. What’s ‘Quintessentially Korean’? The Monk? The Waterpark? Both? 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Punctuating the film’s placid surface are mysterious touches of magical realism. Review: In ‘Tu Dors Nicole,’ the Daughter Loafs While the Parents Are Away 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Friedan’s book was a wallop of a tome, a peek behind the placid façade of the happy homemaker and into the dark heart of a seemingly enviable segment of American womanhood. Betty Friedan started a revolution — and we’re still not there yet 2013-02-13T21:15:00Z His head swivels in slow motion, like a sprinkler, as he scours a placid patch of the Atlantic Ocean. Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z But it can express itself only through wicked steering maneuvers, fisticuffs and placid TV-watching with Mulligan's son. Refn's 'Drive' Review: Ryan Gosling a Silent Stuntman 2011-10-10T19:50:00Z De Kretser’s exquisitely crafted prose is the current that carries them along, guiding them through violent eddies and placid pools, with a bend in the river obscuring their fates until the final page. Questions of Travel and Bon Iver, Bon Iver – the perfect soundtrack 2013-06-22T00:35:16Z “It’s one of those days where everything’s happening underneath,” Agnes observes of the events occurring in her normally placid, if sour, household. ‘A Delicate Balance’ Revival Stars Lithgow and Close 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But here, the previous work’s bitterness feels abstract, at odds with the film’s placid drift. Josh Kline: Living in the Ruined World 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The lagoon’s bottle-green surface remained relatively placid as wavelets hit the gondola’s glossy hull with lulling slaps. In Venice, a Young Boatman Steers a Course of His Own 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z After finding placid swells in the Whale Cay Passage instead of much-dreaded rage seas, we merrily fed table scraps to the feral pigs of No Name Cay. Exploring the far-flung natural beauty of the Bahamas’ ‘out’ islands 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z 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. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Opera is a pretty placid universe these days. An Opera Worth Fighting Over 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But because we never divine any layers beneath the placid surface of Helene and Erik, the play never develops much real tension, despite those portentous clues. Debate Society's ‘Jacuzzi,' With Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Theirs is a placid romance — Mercy and Larry share one long kiss that's more like a wrestling match than anything sensual — but then again, this is a staid movie aimed at an older audience. Larry Crowne: Tom Hanks's Unemployment for Beginners 2011-06-30T23:10:00Z The crystalline structures of the pavilions and the skies above them are artfully reflected in the placid water below. February gallery shows ponder architectural possibilities 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z As Albee marriages go, the one in “Homelife,” which opens the bill, is actually rather placid. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z This music, which he started playing in the late ’90s, came from a private and placid place; he seems interested in keeping that place as it was. Music Review: Eleh at Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights 2012-09-16T21:43:05Z Asta starts digging into this case, though her investigation neither leads to any dramatic revelations nor changes the film’s placid rhythms. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Here, ropes lash it in fragments to a massive barge floating on the silvery expanse of the placid Danube River delta. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Lurtsema spoke in placid tones; he was unafraid to pause, at length. “Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z A diminutive, placid beauty with a sense of persistent social distress and a restless, probing intelligence, Ms. Dee was always a critical favorite but never really a leading lady. Ruby Dee, Star of Stage and Screen, Dies at 91 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z At first the music, which deftly melds traditional Chinese and contemporary Western elements, provides a placid, hazy background: gentle glissandos, soft scratchy tones in the strings, delicate flickers from the woodwinds. Music Review: The American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall 2013-01-20T20:34:10Z 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. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 5: Running With the Devil 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The rueful humor of the last sentence is typical of Ullmann’s prose, which is plain, succinct and declarative, with currents of intensity flowing beneath the placid surface. Exploring the Personal Legacy of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Features a Revelatory Vince Vaughn 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z 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. She’s Her Own Artist. And a Daughter’s Muse. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Lean and wiry, with a cleanshaven head, a penetrating gaze and a placid smile, Mr. Dargel is arresting even before he speaks, let alone sings. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z But Lashon’s otherwise placid youth was rattled by what came to be known as the Atlanta child murders, when more than 20 Black boys and girls were kidnapped and killed between 1979 and 1981. How Atlanta History Shaped Lil Baby and Generations of Rappers 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Blade contributes the album’s closer, “Your Part to Play,” vested with a placid, luminous melody, resembling the sheer-cloth rustle of the music he writes for Fellowship, his ensemble of roughly 20 years. Redman, Mehldau, McBride and Blade Take Another Spin, 26 Years Later 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z On the surface the interlocking worlds of music festivals and arts philanthropy might seem as placid as the preternaturally transparent, swan-rich waters of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Donation for a Lucerne Opera House Is in Dispute 2011-04-28T21:05:39Z He lived comfortably, financed by his merchant father, and led an almost perversely placid existence, once turning down travel because he was worried it would give him even more ideas. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z When she volunteers to attend what she thinks will be a placid demonstration against coal mining, another member enlightens her: “We don’t really do protests. … We do direct action.” ‘The Ash Family’ Is a Debut Novel for Our Climate-Anxious Age 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But he brings some gruff life to Dr. Markel’s placid book. Books of The Times: The Lure of Cocaine, Once Hailed as Cure-All 2011-07-19T20:01:41Z Gene Page/AMC Ever since we first saw Woodbury earlier this season, the narrative of most episodes has jumped back and forth between the group in the prison and those in this seemingly placid town. The Walking Dead Watch: So Close…So Far 2013-03-18T16:18:24Z And then suddenly you see it: the asymmetrical limestone spires of the Dolomites erupting from the placid landscape like a gigantic prehistoric paw in gruff welcome. In the Heart of the Dolomites, Hiking and Haute Cuisine 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z 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. Jamaica Has Never Had Olympic Synchronized Swimmers. These Girls Want to Change That. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z This was partly because the setting of Jaws was so placid and bucolic and middle-American and innocent. Where are all the other great shark movies? 2010-07-08T21:36:00Z Three pieces named “Nailed It” show placid faces failing to react to a large nail driven into each of them. ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Beyond placid Queenston, where an American attack was turned back in the War of 1812, the Niagara River turns relatively tame, and wineries, peach orchards, manorlike houses and an inviting bicycle path line the road. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Niagara Falls 2011-05-26T18:29:08Z Despite the work’s ubiquity, its placid opening never loses its hypnotic effect when played diligently. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-21T22:19:11Z She's also unnervingly quiet, with a placid face and the kind of eyes you don't dare lie to. "The Killing": A murder mystery with brains and soul 2011-03-31T12:32:00Z Following a lucky escape from Opar, the weary-hearted lord of the jungle finally decides, in Walt Whitman’s phrase, to “turn and live with the animals. They are so placid and self-contained.” Review | A look back at how Tarzan swung into immortality 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Beneath this placid surface, however, there’s a fair bit going on, not least a tacit understanding of the wider imbalances at play in this patriarchal neck of the woods. My streaming gem: why you should watch Kumbalangi Nights 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z II. It was placid on my street in Boise, Till new neighbors moved in — wow, they’re noisy! Style Invitational: The Rorschach of the Crowd — interpret these ink blots 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z And this isn’t even the Potomac’s main flow; we’re on an elbow of the river that diverts around Rocky Island and is often so placid one can float in place without paddling. An adrenaline-starved adventure traveler looks back at five close calls 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Eventually we paused for a late-afternoon coffee at one of the island’s marshy ports, staring intently at the famously placid Baltic Sea and trying to catch it moving. In Estonia, a Hotel Keeps Its Promise 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The tension rises again as we are allowed to imagine the evil lurking beneath the water’s placid, moonlit surface. L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Mazzara granted that, with an opener featuring a tranquil barbecue in placid Woodbury. The Walking Dead Watch: Pulling Back the Curtain 2012-11-12T14:00:32Z In the cheerful, colorful children’s section of the bookstore, under the placid gaze of various stuffed animals, I read on. Perspective | Book readings can be a drag — unless you’re a children’s author 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Much of the music is placid and atmospheric, almost hypnotic. Music Review: Andrey Boreyko Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-01-24T22:15:22Z The arm waving, "Look over here and be scared!" message presumes that the people receiving it exist in a state of placid obliviousness. Against attention scolding: Stop policing people’s so-called distractions 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “The trouble is, Jane Austen lived such a quiet, placid life that there isn’t a great deal of drama in it,” she said. A Possible Clue in Jane Austen’s Glasses. Did Arsenic Kill Her? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z And in the deceptively economic essay called “Locked In,” she reminds us just how perilous it sometimes is to be a woman in the world, no matter how seemingly placid the setting. Travel Books Take You There and Back 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Highway 2 crosses the Cascades and drops into apple orchards before reaching placid Lake Chelan. These Are America's Best Road Trips 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z 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.” What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z There's also a difference, I think we know, between placid, intelligent children and… the other sort. Rewind TV: Babies in the Office; Wallander; David Tennant on Hamlet 2012-07-21T23:05:43Z The others, portraits of Kevorkian’s father and Johann Sebastian Bach, show a more placid side. Museum of Death in L.A. buys Kevorkian suicide device Thanatron 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Hidden is about the nagging doubt in the mind of the west that its placid postwar prosperity is teetering on a cliff edge. From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Several of the photos focus on boulders protruding from placid waters, each dark crest rounded like the shell of a surfacing turtle. Review | In the galleries: Art, interrupted, in ‘Carte Blanche,’ curated by Adah Rose Bitterbaum 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The accompanying video, directed by Alexandra Gavillet, features women of various ages, sizes and ethnicities standing like placid warriors in Technicolor tunics. Marina’s Music Was Caught Between Worlds. Now She’s Making Her Own. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Our tour began in the working-class neighborhood of Stokes Croft, the scruffy, urban crust of Bristol’s primarily placid interior. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z He’s a big, placid figure brought up to respect authority in all its forms, who finds himself as a close-quarters witness to some of the darkest moments in 20th-century South Korean history. My streaming gem: why you should watch The President's Barber 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z He grew up in leafy, placid Parkland, and aspires to get an MBA and a job on Wall Street. A conservative Parkland student’s whirlwind trip to D.C. ended in the Oval Office 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z One favorite route took her from placid Bloomsbury into seedy Soho, where she haggled over silk stockings at the Berwick Street Market. France’s Pansexual Pop Queen Arrives 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The office is comparatively reserved and placid, 60-hour workweeks now a thing of the recent past. Freedom to Marry is going out of business. And everybody’s thrilled. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z It should be funny that such fervid words are being intoned by women who, if not starchy and stiff, look preternaturally placid. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The province is not very big, and their mental picture was of a placid landscape on a peninsula better known for high tides than high hills. Walking and talking in Nova Scotia, a small province with sweeping vistas and welcoming locals 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z His admission to your verdant and placid sanctuary of creation is a matter of some urgency, and it may just save his miserable life. A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Those gently wafting sounds and placid waters belied a brutal past. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z She sleeps most of the day, not with the placid smile of an angel-to-be but with sunken cheeks, mouth agape. How 'Miss You Already' Prevails Against the Harmful Mythology of the Cancer Hero 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z “Gone With the Wind” was already controversial in the Black community for its placid and romantic depiction of slavery. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z When I grew fat, I was assumed to he placid. 'You have to experience it to know what fat is like' 2013-02-02T08:01:04Z Not too far away is Cape Vincent, with an 1854 lighthouse that overlooks the passage from placid river to sometimes treacherous lake. In the Thousand Islands, Castles, Cliffs and Contemplation 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z There she sits, an elderly spinster, sweet, placid, so you'd think. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #13 – Miss Marple 2012-07-09T14:19:10Z Here is a gentle and ruminative, if slightly placid, documentary from director Alastair Cole, about the fishermen of the Western Isles and their way of life catching herring, eels and lobsters. Iorram (Boat Song) review – swims with the ghosts of Scottish fishermen past 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But is it polite and placid, or savage and strange? A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z The placid, even lush water view is offset by the encroaching realities of city. Check in, Swim Out: A Floating Hotel as Art 2011-07-10T22:30:06Z Meadows, encouraged here, perhaps, to inhabit the role as a bystander to the events being rewound for him, is far too placid a presence. ‘Jelly’ Jams with vibrancy (and only a couple of lumps) 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z At the loss of my hair I am placid, And my beer gut don’t raise stomach acid, But big Pharma has learned They’ll get all that I’ve earned By instilling fear that I’ll go flaccid. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.) It was the sort of role in which Massey was supreme: placid on the surface, with passion deep within her. Anna Massey 2011-07-04T18:30:00Z When I passed into the installation’s second room, I recognized a photo of a woman with a broad, placid face and dark eyes. A Piercing View of the Twentieth Century, Through the Eyes of the Teddy Bear 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z 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. Zippy Amtrak Train Gets Tangled in ‘the Swamp’ 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Metamorphoses … Dolls come to life in AS Byatt's tale, which starts as placid kitsch but becomes a story of betrayal. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z Fretton imagines a placid, contemporary medieval courtyard before stairs and escalators on one side of the cloister transport visitors to the exhibition spaces below. The V&A goes underground with shortlisted designs for new gallery 2011-03-03T16:50:41Z The facility attempts to recreate the natural habitats for its estimated 15,000 creatures and plants including scary sharks, slithery giant eels and deceptively placid stingrays. In Transit Blog: New Istanbul Aquarium Offers Views From Under the Sea 2011-12-06T11:00:31Z Or will they remain marooned in the comparatively placid past? Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z But other images — Christine McMillan acting distressed up on the balcony, Joshua Palmer carried high as if on a bier — worried the placid surface. Dance Review: Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance at Danspace Project 2012-06-29T23:23:49Z The deceptively placid Ip begins taking on students, becoming Wing Chun master to a loyal crew eager to practice their ferocious skills, even though his counsel is: "It is better not to fight." 'Ip Man 2': Sequel's martial-arts action beats the storytelling 2011-01-27T22:55:30Z Our sexual marathons gradually became less frequent and less intense, and finally the sex became more a placid release three times a week. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z The sea, dark and rarely placid, is deceptively vital. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A lake can pretend to be a placid camera, duplicating and inverting the mountains of Yosemite, but in other moods water is aggressive, able to sculpt stone. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z 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. Review: ‘Gypsy’ and the Problem of Well-Made Bad TV 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Presiding with placid indifference over this freakish scene is the materfamilias, Paige, played by Kristine Nielsen, here giving what I can only call the Ultimate Extreme Kristine Nielsen Performance. Review: ‘Hir’ Sorts Through a Family in Transition 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z A stately arrangement of placid quadrangles and tall brick edifices with copper roofs, it’s an impressive place. Take a (Solo) Stroll. Your Next Art Fix May Be Around the Block. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z On the surface, Hall was placid, thoughtful, unfailingly polite. Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The package also includes a code, which gives access to an ever-expanding online library of live recordings by So Percussion that shows off the expressive range of Cage’s music, from joyous madness to placid introspection. So Percussion’s Limited-Edition John Cage Project 2012-11-25T00:50:16Z So the delay is essential before the action: the longer the lull, the stronger the explosion out of the placid ocean. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Acting and Amateurism 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The best song is the most textural — "How I Roll," a placid banger that sounds like an oddity in any context, much like Spears' "Toxic" did in 2003. Britney Spears, awesome despite it all, plays Tacoma Dome June 29 2011-06-23T15:03:07Z The first type of commercial will usually show a mother and father smoothly careening down a country road in their SUV, their 2.5 kids placid and safe in the backseat. Toyota Venza's anti-hipster commercials 2011-07-11T19:52:00Z She writes for a small newspaper in this placid town of 10,000, hosts a local radio “Coffee Hour” and edits a magazine food section. Battle Over James Brown’s Estate Focuses on a Diary 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Melody’s uncontrollable kicking, a symptom of her disorder, sends her and the placid therapy horse to which she is strapped bolting into a forest in a storm. 3 Middle Grade Novels Explore the Bond Between Horse and Human 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z After a heated argument, Walt shot Mike, who got out of his car, propped himself up near a placid riverbed and expired in his own tranquil, Mike-like way. ArtsBeat: Jonathan Banks of ‘Breaking Bad’ on Sunday’s Episode 2012-08-27T16:17:51Z In January, an audience at the New School was treated to a surprising sonic shift: placid jazz quickly evolving into punishing metal. Dan Weiss’s Starebaby Mines the Loud Ground Where Jazz and Metal Meet 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z In this case, though, the acrimony erupted in an area that is usually much more placid: the market for children’s violin lessons. Mark O’Connor Fans a Debate About the Suzuki Method 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z This was why, in the late afternoon, I was wandering round the Achrafiyeh district: a placid district on a hill. Adam Thirlwell stares at graffiti in Beirut 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Kim's placid face wears her character's incomparable resilience; she imparts more with her gaze and the subdued tone of her voice than the dialogue alone can say. The must-see "Pachinko" is a pure and flawless beauty about the unpredictability of living 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Governors Ball, now in its fifth year, asks only of a short ferry ride to the placid Randalls Island, and rewards with one of the best contemporary lineups of the season. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Another Equus maxim is that horses recoil from what the founders term “incongruence” — for instance, a person who is emotionally distraught presenting a placid facade. Can We Learn Anything From Horses? 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z There is this very beatific vision of what motherhood is, very placid, calm, serene and nurturing. Julie Delpy on breaking motherhood taboos in "My Zoe" & seeing the last of the "Before" franchise 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z More suggestive than depictive, Mr. Gurrin’s images — a distant prairie home subjected to slow, prismatic distortions; an industrial building standing placid amid simulated wind gusts — provided poetic counterpoint without distracting unduly from the music. Music Review: Momenta Quartet at the Stone 2013-01-09T22:51:07Z In the night I had mistaken its placid surface for a parking lot. A Rookie’s Road Trip Through Montana, Wyoming and Idaho 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z There was a time when a set of French windows on stage, and Terence Rattigan on the poster, would signify the most placid and predictable entertainment. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-05-08T17:07:43Z Orange and blue pedal boats dot the placid lakes. My Mexico City Is Everyone’s Now 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z In the image that he would later watch come to life in a darkroom, he saw two young people who embody an easy, natural joy as they wade waist-deep through the placid waters. A 50-year-old mystery: Who’s that wading in the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z A five-minute walk to the only lodging led us through the placid but littered little town. On Solomon Islands, take a deep dive into Pacific war history 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z After landing on the shore across Kachemak Bay from Homer, Mr. Tappan leads visitors to within 100 yards of placid brown bear. Journeys: Alaskan Road Trip, 500 Feet Up 2010-02-19T03:36:00Z From the placid vantage of a laptop, the world looks manageable. India in One, Two or Three Weeks 2012-03-23T18:57:13Z In the center of a bustling town that’s at almost 5,000 feet above sea level, this contemporary boutique property is a placid retreat. In Madagascar, an island with unique species is a biking biologist’s dream 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z But it can only express itself through wicked steering maneuvers, fisticuffs and placid TV-watching with Mulligan's son. Drive, He Said!: Ryan Gosling's Latest Star Turn 2011-09-15T20:10:00Z She'd seemed a placid sort but Christ, she was kicking off now. Fan Flaherty Trade 2011-07-22T22:01:10Z Even when he layers metallic hues smoothly, as in a series of small square paintings bisected into choppy and placid halves, there’s tumult beneath the glistening surface. In the galleries: In ‘Gilded,’ artist Takefumi Hori applies Midas touch The quiet, seemingly placid life of a reclusive apple grower in central Washington state is thrown into disarray when two very young and very pregnant girls appear among his groves. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z It’s not just associated with inclement weather, but can also occur when skies appear placid. Fasten Your Seatbelts: What You Need to Know About Turbulence 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The performers captured especially the range of watery sounds in the first movement and the placid sense of pastoral stasis in the third. Review | Steven Isserlis keeps the music modern and strings old-fashioned in Library of Congress concert 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Christina is a polished player – blonde, eerily placid, used to getting her way. "Lovecraft Country" sorceress is America's Next Top Karen, joining TV's other ultimate Karens 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Step away from Swiss-cheesy cliches and you will discover that this seemingly placid town bubbles with unique spots, serious chefs and international currents. In Geneva, it’s always time to eat 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘The Debt’ in This Barney Elliott Film Is a Commodity 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Are the Triestines more placid and content, a touch less theatrical than their compatriots? In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z Another refuses to drink the water in this now placid tropical landscape because of bodies buried there. | 'Enemies of the People': Cambodian Journalist Revisits Khmer Rouge 2010-07-29T22:13:00Z Baker argues otherwise in this well-constructed drama, which beneath its placid surface is as political as any play by George Bernard Shaw — one of her apparent inspirations — but without his dense, intrusive speechifying. ‘Chains’ Review: Drab Lives, but Dreaming of More 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z This one eruption of sensation in an otherwise placid career did not dent Williams’ popularity one whit. Andy Williams: A Farewell Song for the "Moon River" Man 2012-09-26T22:34:50Z Kevin was still at the wheel, his hair brushed back, face placid and clear. Our last Thanksgiving 2012-11-23T01:00:00Z Cool, placid notes struck at a piano’s high end, and strings brushed feather-light established a spare, icy sound. Music in Review 2011-01-24T23:22:42Z Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material called table salt. Chemistry: the unsung hero of science 2011-02-13T00:06:06Z Forster’s novel “A Passage to India,” led to years of significant commissions in which Ms. Zimmerman, now 74, integrated hunks of jagged granite, polished stone and placid pools. Plan to Remove a Million-Pound Granite Sculpture Draws Fire 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z It reminded me of the placid beauty of the Great Plains. Where the Wallowa Mountains Begin 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Its placid and familial atmosphere is heightened by a cameo: Brad and Phil’s father plays accordion on the dirge “Kill the Horns.” Pop & Rock Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T21:55:59Z Before she got involved in the women’s rights movement, Stanton told friends she suffered from a “mental hunger” living in placid upstate New York. Suffragette City: A timely visit to Seneca Falls, N.Y., birthplace of the 19th amendment 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The surface looks fast but placid until whirls and eddies erupt, seemingly from nowhere, then vanish. 125 years after gold was discovered in the Yukon, we ventured up to Dawson City. Here’s what it looks like now 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z 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. ‘Peaky Blinders’: The Disparate Ingredients of a Cult Hit 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Part of what made Peep’s work so tantalizing, and also so difficult to wrestle with, was how placid he could be when facing the concept of death. Lil Peep and the Dilemma of the Posthumous Album 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The stream that flows between Fresh Pond, a serene pool surrounded by marshland, and placid Napeague Bay, is a popular summer spot for families with small children. Hamptons’ True Colors Show in Autumn Off-Season 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The steady hand on this particular wheel belongs to the Uruguayan director Maxi Contenti, whose name hints at a placid temperament, yet whose tastes run to the gloriously gory. ‘The Last Matinee’ Review: Killer Attractions 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The performances are each calibrated to a static frequency — the forceful and pitiless apparition, the relentlessly placid new occupant — curtailing the potential for more dynamic shifts in character. ‘Happy Life’ Review: Ghosts in the Studio 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z 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. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z While Mr. Murphy and I spoke about this, I took in the placid mood and surroundings of the Siboney. Seeing the Whole of Antigua 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The first visit to Yorktown is pacific, even lullingly placid; the swoops and loops of its gravity curves play mostly for fun, and Captain Kirk, mission-weary, applies for a desk job there. A Quasi-American “Star Trek Beyond” 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Wind movements were animated by eddies of rippling arpeggios enveloped in placid streams of fused voices. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The “Matrix” series revolves around Neo, a Christlike figure who discovers that humanity is being kept in a placid dream state by machines and starts to fight it. ‘Matrix’ Reboot Said to Be in the Works, With Keanu Reeves as a Maybe 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z You also believe that babies represent total serenity, and you’re enchanted by the starchild at the end of 2001, gazing on the majesty of the universe in a state of placid wonder. Bundles of joy: which baby movie is for you? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The snow tamps down so much: In Minnesota, even some of the killers have placid miens and pleasant manners. Television Review: ‘Fargo,’ a TV Series Riffing on the Film, Begins on FX 2014-04-14T21:28:35Z Rell, dressed in a pastel aqua hoodie and with a face that radiates placid, cherubic innocence, has a harder time of it. Review: In 'Keanu,' Key and Peele Let a Cat Steal the Show 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z 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. Did You Watch ‘Bloodline’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z His placid, charming stories recount, with wry humor and perception, the triumphs and disappointments of daily life in tiny villages and on small farms. ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Returns With Even More Creatures 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Though this film is set against a beautiful and placid Swiss lake, the happenings inside the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor residence reveal a tangled web of relations that unravels into the droll drama, “My Wonderful Wanda.” ‘My Wonderful Wanda’ Review: The Secret Life of a Caretaker 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Lewis went directly from this into the mysteriously placid opening of the sonata, with its theme that unfolds through eerily long-held chords. Music Review: Beethoven Devotee Makes Some Keyboard Time for Schubert 2011-05-01T22:22:48Z As with their mostly placid last outing, they’ll most likely rely on their arsenal of bewitching radio hits, including “Rhiannon,” “Go Your Own Way” and “Landslide.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 6-12 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Wherever “somewhere now” is for Green Day, it’s not placid. Review: ‘Revolution Radio’ Finds Green Day Still Unsatisfied 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z On the dance floor, Adriana Lima twirls to “Rhythm of the Night” next to a man carrying a tiny, placid white dog. Adam Driver needs someone to talk to, and Geena Davis’s dress is under my foot: This is the Vanity Fair Oscar party 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Hie thee to the Park Avenue Armory, where this competent but immaculately unwrenching production of Shakespeare’s harrowing tragedy is providing more than three hours of placid traffic on the stage. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z One of the men is placid and the other mutinous. Twin Brothers on a Quest to Find the Next Dalai Lama 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The woman at the center of “The East,” played by Brit Marling, is watchful, reserved, outwardly placid, mysterious. ‘The East’: Spy, ecoterrorists combine for riveting viewing 2013-06-13T21:21:23Z Like Future, and maybe, in some ways, like West, too, Melly has found a way to make placid unravelling an art form unto itself. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z By any reckoning, Paula at last achieved an outward life of placid security worthy of that dinner service in her trunk. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review 2013-03-22T09:01:01Z But there is a fine line between that cool, placid quality and a less character-driven detachment from the role. American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake,’ at the Met 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z I’m quite a placid person, but I became aggressive. ‘I don’t know who I am without it’: the truth about long-term antidepressant use 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z 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. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Beatriz at Dinner’ and ‘Nocturnal Animals’ 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z On first listening to Beck’s placid, self-possessed 12th studio album, “Morning Phase,” I did not look him up on Wikipedia to see if he’d broken up with his wife. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z MEDIA, Penn. — The sounds that filter into George Crumb’s composition studio here are a typically suburban mix of placid and suddenly brash. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The juxtaposition — of placid, sometimes decrepit architecture and buoyant wildlife with these primary texts — is arresting. Keris Salmon’s haunting canvases pair plantation photos and slave diaries 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z 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. When the Body Is a Canvas, Accented With Paint or Peanuts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z In the more outright melodic “Spring” sonata, individual details took on new meaning, like the placid measured trill that brought the slow movement to a gently reluctant close. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z 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. Salma Hayek on an Epically Bad Dinner Party 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z On this second, sweltering day of the seminar, Dr. Weiss, a 65-year-old Florida resident with a hawk-like visage and placid blue eyes, was wearing a polo shirt the color of robins’ eggs. Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z Another is more placid and predictable: a running image of a bus where all the Glorias sit, reassuring one another. ‘The Glorias’ Review: Hear Them Roar 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z He was born to a family of painters in ’s-Hertogenbosch, a placid city referred to by the Dutch as Den Bosch. Review: Hieronymus Bosch, for Whom the Devil Was Always in the Details 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z “Jokes get in the way,” Tony Dow, who played Wally, said in a telephone interview, talking about the “Beaver” writers’ reliance on more placid, observational humor. Television: ?Leave It to Beaver? and Sitcom Craftsmanship 2010-06-25T21:35:00Z Timo Andres’s “Safe Travels,” playfully changeable, shakes things up a bit, but in general this is a pristine, placid 45 minutes. Classical Playlist: Sting, Dvorak, Monteverdi Choir and More 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Was there a lesson there about the dangers lurking under the seemingly placid American surface? ‘The Americans’ Season 4, Episode 11: A Shock Ending 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Out on New York Harbor, Smooth Sailing and Jazz THE waters were placid, the breeze was a balm and the Statue of Liberty was keeping her vigil about a hundred yards aft. Jazz Takes an Easy Ride on the Smooth Cruise 2010-07-22T22:01:00Z On the whole, the music was placid on the surface with a network of intricacies beneath. Music Review | Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Play at Columbia 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z “Critics assailed her style as plastic, placid, bland and antiseptic,” Anita Gates wrote in Page’s New York Times obituary, piling on by calling the singer’s voice “mechanical or sterile.” Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ 2013-01-04T21:54:52Z Watching Brady as he watches a rodeo, his seemingly placid expression masking his excitement, it’s hard to believe that he will resist temptation, and harder to think what may happen if he won’t. ‘The Rider’ Review: A Cowboy Life in the Balance 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Flocks of pilgrims clad in white robes congregate at spots along the river’s edge before being dunked in the placid, green waters. In Israel, a search for tranquility amid the Holy Land’s most popular tourist attractions 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Even the world's most placid vicar could tune into Question Time and find plenty to be enraged by. 2012: the best of hate-watch TV 2012-12-29T00:07:21Z The placid smile is the armor and expectation of womanhood. Perspective | Ketanji Brown Jackson did define ‘woman’ at her confirmation hearing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Yet the Halsey Street “stroll district,” as city officials call it, is both placid and bustling in the daytime. Exploring Cafes and Culture in Downtown Newark 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Audiences enjoyed seeing her marmalised by Anne Archer as Beth, the placid, dutiful but ultimately fiercely protective wife. Show me the bunny! Fatal Attraction is being turned into a TV show 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z The most placid, joyful moments of the memoir are when Oliver is swimming, because he is without “fear or fret,” and this gets him thinking. Swimming with Oliver Sacks 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Now and then the piano rests, or wants to, on a series of placid chords. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Long, placid lines sound as if they should be as restful for the player as they are to the listener. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Instead of bringing the community together, the incident exacerbates problems already lurking under the town's placid surface. 'Aviation Cocktail' doesn't quite fly 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Eerily silent as it may be, this placid vision of London tickles fantasies of a kinder, more secure age. Colour footage of London in the 1920s allows us to be tourists in our own past 2013-05-22T17:12:42Z At first sight, the surface is as placid as any bourgeois drawing room — but it roils, on any closer inspection, with hostility and violence. Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z That’s the only hint of menace in these paintings, which otherwise render nighttime as placid. Review | In the galleries: Canadian artist looks to the outdoors for inspiration 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z His piano performances are influenced by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk ballads, gospel hymns and old African songs; they’re placid and persistent, gentle but deep. Enveloping Sound of a Serene Soul 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The lessons continue in a freezing Arctic village, where Doucleff observes parents who remain placid when their children misbehave. How Do Maya Parents Handle Temper Tantrums? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Such anecdotes don’t seem to fit the placid and agreeable Charley Pride persona, and they don’t make it into “American Masters,” either. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The sea was placid, and a thick cloud cover shrouded the moon. Inside the mind of one “American Shooter” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The struggle between flesh and faith reveals a nasty side to this normally placid community, with roving "modesty squads" and posters proclaiming "a sinner in our neighbourhood". Film review: Eyes Wide Open 2010-05-13T22:05:00Z It also has marble monuments, spectacular rose gardens and a placid lake. In the heart of Madrid, a park for all seasons 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z There is indeed a whispering, almost placid quality to this work, which, like much of Mr. Brown’s oeuvre, strikes a reverent but not pious chord. A Premiere for Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence at the Joyce 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z But the world of “Shadow” is neither placid nor realistic in appearance. ‘Shadow’ Review: A Bleak World Splashed With Red 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z There is an undercurrent of revulsion beneath the otherwise placid exterior of the postwar German family. The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke – review 2013-02-12T08:01:01Z Even in the normally placid world of stamps, Mr. Koslow sometimes encountered controversy. Howard Koslow Dies at 91; Artist Designed Stamps for 40 Years 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The story is a bracingly vicious tale of betrayal and poetic justice in what at first seemed an atmosphere of placid kitsch. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z A pretty schoolteacher with a debilitating stutter, she is more complicated than her placid demeanor suggests. Cannes Film Festival shines light on maverick director Xavier Dolan 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z And Faulkner did the rest with her placid acceptance, lack of pushback and finally her praise of Brooks’s point of view: “It is fascinating to hear this . . .” Perspective | Don’t buy into Trump’s disapproval of Fox News. The network is working hard on his election-denial fantasy. 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z In contrast, Kim commands many of her most indelible scenes by saying little to nothing, knocking us sideways with a tear drawing a ribbon down her otherwise placid face. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The 350-acre Retiro, which originally belonged to the Spanish monarchy, is at the edge of the city center and encompasses grand sculpture, gardens and monuments, small museums and a placid lake. In Transit Blog: Flamenco, and Food, in Madrid's Retiro Park 2012-04-13T18:00:38Z Try paddle boarding in a placid lagoon or choose from one of six restaurants on site. Aloha, partner: Riding the Hawaiian range 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z My eyes, though, kept drifting to Cooper and Mulligan, who sat as placid spectators throughout, smiling every now and then. Review | Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in ‘Candide’? I had to go to Philadelphia to catch this. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s thrilling and just plain fun to watch the barely-clothed Johnny and Baby practicing a dance lift in a placid lake. 30 Years Later Patrick Swayze Still Stuns in 'Dirty Dancing' 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The season finale wraps up Betty’s case, which, as The New York Times reported in 1991, “divided this normally placid city and has drawn attention to the issue of domestic psychological abuse.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Dirty John’ and ‘The Business of Drugs’ 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z In comparison, the rest of the country is placid and dull. London: The Modern Babylon – review 2012-08-02T19:00:01Z Baker, who frequently sets her plays in extremely ordinary, topically placid situations, is an artist of eavesdropping. Theater lovers will get hooked on the marvelous moviehouse play ‘The Flick’ 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z In 1928 Tom Purvis created a strikingly forward-looking image of a little girl inflating her water wings while standing knee-deep in placid ocean water. Art Review: ?Art for All? at the Yale Center for British Art 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z Watching Jay catch waves, there’s a terrifying angle, the sea seems a whirlpool, then suddenly there he is, paddling through something that seems almost placid. Chasing Mavericks: Looking For That Big Break 2012-10-25T14:30:40Z That’s both hilarious and entirely apt because, in one sense, “The Past” couldn’t be more placid. Family tensions simmer in Tessa Hadley’s exquisite novel ‘The Past’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z 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. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z For me, Calvino and Borges, as great as they are, are sometimes too placid and controlled—too sane—to match the best of Kafka and Bernhard. This Week in Fiction: Adam Ehrlich Sachs on Dysfunction Between Fathers and Sons 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z A placid opening sequence doubled as raw material, the regularly paced, mostly consonant piano chords providing receptacles that Mr. Stone refilled with wobbly, warbling tones and voices to create harmony and counterpoint. Music Review: Sarah Cahill and Carl Stone at the Stone Space 2010-08-04T22:28:00Z Such capacious forgiveness is something that Ames, with his settled and placid life, never had to do. Amazing grace 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z He gestured toward the museum’s innocuous bot swarm, which glowed in placid greens and blues. The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The whole setting is so placid and Ando's architecture plays so magisterially to this quality, that it almost physically discourages the visitor from doing something as ridiculous as checking a Tweet on a cellphone. What museums can learn from architect Tadao Ando's Clark expansion 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z My assumption that all Europeans are as placid, mature and even-handed as the Swedish royal family has been rather shaken lately by all this euro chaos. When wrongdoers forfeit human rights 2012-05-26T23:05:57Z A few of the images in Photoworks’ “The American Dream Revisited” are idyllic, or at least placid. Review | In the galleries: ‘Archiving Eden’ exhibition sprouts interest with macro photos 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Underneath the ostensibly placid surfaces of some of the art that we cherish as cozy and comprehensible, there are unexpectedly mystifying sentences, perplexing arias and dark, festering depths. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z But the print produced by the Paris workshop of F. Schoell is more than just another placid landscape. A bilingual painting and how the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The pictures, partly inspired by childhood memories of the area around Krakow, include a few placid landscapes, but most are boldly expressionist and suggest Poland’s turbulent history. In the galleries: Brick by brick, a dark history emerges 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The trailer's opening scene is actually quite placid – it's just Kate Bosworth and Lake Bell jauntily pulling faces at each other in a car – but this is bound to change. Black Rock: the horror of it all 2012-12-05T15:36:01Z He was a close observer and faithful recorder of bird behavior in its day-to-day ordinariness, but he imparts a certain liveliness even to placid scenes. ‘Audubon’s Aviary: The Final Flight’ Alights at the New-York Historical Society 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Kandy sits in a valley beside a placid lake that was ordered by the region’s last Sinhalese emperor. In the Hills of Sri Lanka’s Tea Country 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z In its early scenes “First Winter” evokes with a deadly accuracy the simmering rivalries and jealousies percolating under the commune’s placid surface. Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z Sophia, a professional librarian and one of just a few black characters, is conveniently placid about her status as a third-class citizen. Fiction That Takes You Back in Time 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z In the background the strings of the orchestra play placid, hushed diatonic chords that slowly move up and down the scale. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z It was sexual, yes, and thus disturbing to the more placid and puritanical observers, but it was inescapably religious too, in the sense that religion evokes realities ordinarily hidden from the human eye. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z At Conservatory Water, placid chimes gently puncture a scrim of calm strings. Perspective | ‘Soundwalk’ turns Central Park into an intoxicating musical adventure 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z He had placid blue eyes, with which he looked directly into mine as we spoke. I love a rapist’s artwork: A brutal crime, a delicate work 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z 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. Taking a Dance Vacation at Rockaway 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The joining together of these men in holy matrimony is rather a rock tossed in a placid lake. 'Love Is Strange' and profound with Lithgow, Molina paired 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z That is, Daniel Craig as Bond himself, who in a pair of short, tight GrigioPerla swim trunks caused a splash in the otherwise placid pool of men’s swimwear, the effects of which are still reverberating. Trading Up: Shorter Swim Trunks Are the Look for Men 2012-07-11T19:58:37Z A lot of teens in the early noughties were taking ketamine, which was a very placid, down drug that kept you in your own zone. Disco gets lucky 2013-05-31T08:58:13Z And beneath the sleek, pleasant surface of their lives, suggests director Radu Muntean, dark forces are stirring like sea monsters in a placid sea. "Tuesday, After Christmas": A sexy, slow-burning marriage drama 2011-05-27T19:28:00Z A short drive from the Austin airport, the resort’s tin-roofed limestone buildings hug the shoreline of the placid Colorado River. Girls' Getaway: Lake Austin Spa Resort 2010-12-29T20:50:20.993Z 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. Skiing the Alps, Making It My Own 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z A paradise for skiers, the Italian Alps of South Tyrol offer a more placid pastime that’s surging anew. Italian Alpine Spas, Where Sports Are an Afterthought 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z He is preying on the fears of his wealthy, unsuspecting boss, and when he holds up the “bloody” evidence, the placid Yeon-kyo closes her eyes from abject dread. The wildest, most poignant, or unforgettable movie scenes of 2019 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Sellars asked that the boatman call be a more droning refrain evoking the placid expanse of the Ohio River, and that Mish “get down” for the song’s high-spirited quickstep chorus. The Sellars method: How a master director coaches singers toward greatness 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z An anonymous likeness of Bronzino shows him as a suave man in advancing years, with a placid, slightly drowsy look. Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z The song was “Pressure,” from Quadron’s self-titled 2009 debut album, and it arrived stark and hard, with Coco O digging deep and opening wide, a moment of arresting church fervor breaking through the placid surface. Music Review: Quadron at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-04-26T22:59:56Z Saying that Mr. Taylor’s placid songs helped soothe the country’s frayed nerves after all the chaos isn’t quite enough. Books of The Times: Why 1970 Deserves Its 15 Minutes of Fame 2011-06-23T21:59:42Z Even a placid passage led by a wistful solo violin was shaken up by the stirring of a wayward line in the basses. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The movie’s placid surfaces conceal signs of repression and discord. ‘Disco’ Review: Devoted to Dancing (and More) 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z As with their mostly placid last outing, they’ll rely on their arsenal of bewitching radio hits, including “Rhiannon,” “Go Your Own Way” and “Landslide.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 16-22 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Speaking in a flat Michigan accent, the actor manages to convey Dr. Kevorkian’s placid tone and occasional flecks of dry humor without masking his reckless indifference to public sentiment and professional caution. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z At first glance so placid, this painting lures you into a frozen moment, so that you share the introspection of the people in it; you, too, are passing time by the bridge, gloomily. Christian K?bke: Nordic exposure 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z Hilary's life, with its ladies lunches and volunteer efforts at the library, seems placid by comparison. In her novel 'The Expatriates', Janice Y.K. Lee explores contemporary lives in Hong Kong 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z If there is one hard lesson we’ve learned since 9/11, it is the degree to which fear lurking just below the placid surface of everyday existence can poison the social climate. Critic?s Notebook: Faces on Film Add Humanity To the News 2011-06-15T22:24:44Z And he would have stumbled out into the handsome streets of placid Arezzo with his own artistic ambitions inflamed. Tuscany as Henry James Knew It 2010-06-24T20:43:00Z “They’re content and sort of placid, and they need to stir things up.” Film: ?Date Night? Adventure for Steve Carell and Tina Fey 2010-04-04T02:58:00Z 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. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z That said, dinner parties can be a little stressful, even in the most placid of times. How to keep guests out of the kitchen (when you're busy preparing Thanksgiving dinner) 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z As with their mostly placid last outing, they’ll rely on their arsenal of radio staples, including “Rhiannon,” “Go Your Own Way” and “Landslide.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Although the “Bad Jews” script is such that you will laugh so hard that you cry, and by the end, just cry, Harmon seems remarkably placid and doesn’t stand out in a crowded coffee shop. Joshua Harmon may be a student yet, but he has shown his playwriting prowess No performance of Feldman’s music, particularly the vast, placid expanses of his later pieces, is a task undertaken lightly. Music Review: Blair McMillen Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic - Review 2011-12-05T22:44:34Z Made on commission for a British aristocrat, it pictures a complicatedly structured white wooden bridge crossing a placid river under a lively, partly cloudy sky. Art Review | 'Masterpieces of European Painting From Dulwich Picture Gallery': At the Frick, Paintings From Dulwich Picture Gallery 2010-04-01T22:51:00Z Yes, I miss the placid Star Trek from days of yore. Star Trek Beyond: 10 things we learned from the trailer 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Tony divides his placid life between the Ohio college where he teaches and a summer place in Maine. 'Tony and Susan': a resurrected novel of love and marriage, divorce and payback 2011-08-03T20:54:03Z As with their mostly placid last outing, they’ll rely on their arsenal of American radio staples, including “Rhiannon,” “Go Your Own Way” and “Landslide.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z In “Jazz on a Summer’s Day,” the leading edge of modern jazz was seen as largely placid and largely white—and it just wasn’t so. A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Kailua was a thriving population center before European contact, a playground for chiefs and rich in farming and fish, thanks to its many freshwater streams and wetlands and placid bay. Return to Kailua, Hawaii 2011-09-02T18:14:23Z After 20 minutes or so, he punctuated placid stretches with tightly managed eruptions. Review: Cecil Taylor’s Mysteries Don’t Resolve at the 88th Key 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The first 90 seconds of Meek Mill’s 2012 debut album, “Dreams and Nightmares,” are placid — no drums, just piano and strings. Meek Mill Is Loudly Reflective on His Second Album, ‘Dreams Worth More Than Money’ 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Critics assailed her style as plastic, placid, bland and antiseptic, but those opinions were not shared by millions of record buyers. Patti Page, Singer, Dies at 85 2013-01-02T20:29:12Z They wanted picturesque landscapes that were wilder and more rugged than Brown’s placid idylls. The landscape architect who bottled nature 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Down below sprawls the naval base, a small town on the shore of placid, blue Guantanamo Bay. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z “Pence may not be well-known, but his anonymity and placid demeanor belie his history as a hardline conservative, and that’s exactly why Trump chose him,” Meyers explained. WATCH: Don’t know much about Mike Pence? Let Seth Meyers help you out 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Morlot was a genial accompanist, perky in the outer movements, placid in the Adagio, but not really on his soloist's more curious and challenging wavelength. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z This is the Loch Ness-monster side of the Web—the unknown something lurking beneath the placid surface. Giving Yourself Away Online 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z In Get Out, under that placid exterior lurks the dark subconscious, where the true horror lies. Get Out: the film that dares to reveal the horror of liberal racism in America 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s sweet and placid on its surface: the sun shines and breezes blow as Byles purrs of his betrothed’s hair and that tactile feel of new love. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z More placid is You’re Me, a duo from Vancouver, B.C., whose music is more for the mind than the body. Avant-garde producer Laurel Halo heads hefty Kremwerk bill 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Turning placid audience members into cheering spectators demands a mix of daredevilry and preparation. Shooting Hoops and Rehearsing for ?Lysistrata Jones? 2011-10-12T22:15:47Z The series “exploded the stereotypical view of the landscape as a placid ensemble of sheep and gum trees,” John McDonald of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote in 2007. John Olsen, Who Helped Revolutionize Australian Art, Dies at 95 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z She gives her guitar a steady, placid strum, with soothing piano and strings and oohing backup vocals, but the city lights she sings about are indifferent. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z A rope is strung along the beach, between the palm-tree studded gardens and the blue, placid Indian Ocean. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z Onstage, Beach House’s music will not rush, but it can’t stay as placid. Music Review: Floating Through Fog, And Yet Structured 2011-02-24T23:42:02Z More placid and ruminative but no less insightful is an anonymous portrait of an old man standing in a rubble-strewn street. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z Anyway, towards the end of the film, with all that business squared away, we see Donovan riding an elevated train over the placid outer-borough suburbs of the early 1960s. “Bridge of Spies”: Tom Hanks goes full Jimmy Stewart in Spielberg’s flawed but disturbingly timely Cold War history lesson 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z But all is not well in Juliet’s placid and somewhat dull postwar world. Review | Kate Atkinson’s new spy novel toys with our expectations 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z I’m wondering which is her natural state – the placid composure of photographs, or the frantic, gesticulating, conscientious producer of this verbal torrent. Thandie Newton: ‘I wake up angry – there’s a lot to be angry about’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Even in her placid hometown in the Black Forest region of Germany, everything feels distant, rendered unrecognizable to her by the forces of modernization. ‘Wood and Water’ Review: The Distances Between Us 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Despite the high stakes of the story and the frequent violence, the tone is placid and slightly monotonous, as if we were watching the Walton family at the end of the world. Television Review: It?s Might Versus Right Versus Space Monster 2011-06-16T22:15:15Z And yet “My Gift” is … placid, light on melodrama. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z That allowed her slow movement to remain unusually and disarmingly placid, with the ground continually shifting under Beethoven’s feet. Yuja Wang slays Beethoven's monster piano piece — and makes it look easy 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Wallach’s personal life, he added, was more placid and law-abiding: He loved collecting antique clocks, watching tennis and telling stories. Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Their placid life is dismantled by hordes of uninvited guests who won’t leave. Making ‘Mother!,’ the Year’s Most Divisive Film 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z He seems placid as he talks about teenage years that must have been painful. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Dunes protect a 136-site campground, sandwiched between the Atlantic and placid Pamlico Sound. These Are America's Prettiest Beach Campsites 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The voyage toward Libyan waters is calm, placid; the water is aqua green. The Screening Room: “Lifeboat” 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Together they brought the movement to the kind of reluctant close that lends a bittersweet aftertaste to a placid reverie. Review: Mostly Mozart’s Opening Concert, With a Chopin Encore 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In the distance we could glimpse the placid Atlantic. Chasing Waves on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Still visible on the textile wrap, her painted placid expression and “fear not” gesture carry emotion after nearly 2,000 years. 36 Hours in Rennes and St.-Malo 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Instead I found a kind, placid fly fisherman.” Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America 2013-07-15T19:46:10Z The marriage was not nearly as placid as it seemed, nor was Magritte’s art. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Even in a place as placid and generally friendly as Iowa, it can be a bit unsettling for anyone to cover Trump. Insults, threats and more insults: What it’s like to be a reporter covering Trump 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Like many masks this smiling, placid one has become so tight a fit that it might be said to have rewritten the features of whatever true face once screamed behind it. The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z Trebek was our placid, beloved guide in an endless tour of knowing and learning for all these years. Bidding a final, poignant adieu to "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek amidst our nation's chaos 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Several deaths occur or are alluded to circumspectly, and a burglar enters through the window in 1997, but on the whole, the recent past is placid. Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But nothing dissuades the believers, like Feltham, who look out on the lake’s placid waters and see a mystery to be solved. “I’m not leaving until we solve this mystery”: Meet the world’s foremost Loch Ness Monster hunter 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z This works well enough in numbers that reward her creamy timbre and placid, nearly vibrato-less tone — like “Take Me to the World,” from the 1966 television musical “Evening Primrose.” Sondheim Two Ways, From Judy Collins and Melissa Errico 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Shortly after 8 o’clock, the sun began to set, turning the sky a vibrant pink that was reflected in the placid waters running alongside the Yard: the notoriously polluted Gowanus Canal. The Gowanus Canal, Toxic but Drawing the Crowds 2010-06-02T22:07:00Z Overlooking the placid Lullwater, a waterway that flows into Prospect Park Lake, the stately Audubon Center at the Boathouse is one of the most impressive spaces in the park. How to Enjoy Brooklyn’s Prospect Park 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “He was always an experimental writer, always out there on the edge,” Roudane said, noting that Mr. Albee once called the Broadway audience “such placid cows.” Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z This peaceful park, framed by Shimbashi’s soaring skyscrapers, spans more than 60 acres of green meadows and placid ponds. 36 Hours in Eastern Tokyo 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z But then a voice from the past sends a tremor into her placid life. Review: ‘The Midwife’ Is Unflappable, Until the Past Blows In 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Anderson is the auteur who made the sky rain frogs in “Magnolia”; in front of his camera, even Southern California’s normally placid weather has the potential for grandeur. Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Back to the Valley With ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Peck, placid in one moment and impassioned in the next, mirrors Mr. Huxley’s beautiful manner: sculptural, refined, firm though never hard. Review: City Ballet’s ‘Americana x Five’ Offers a Comforting Mix 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The performance as a whole was perfectly lovely — and a little placid. Music Review: A Last-Minute Juliette Stands Tall in Verona 2011-03-04T23:52:30Z In the center of a bustling town that’s almost 5,000 feet above sea level, this contemporary boutique property is a placid retreat. Bike touring Madagascar, a biologist falls in love with the wildlife 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The urban vibe felt like a jolt of electricity in placid Provence. Choice Tables: France?s Luberon Invites You to Lose Yourself 2010-04-30T15:51:00Z But 11 months into a relatively placid first year, the indefinite closure of a vital piece of civic infrastructure presents a new, potentially thorny challenge for the mayor. Freeway closure and snarled traffic pose a fresh political test for Mayor Bass 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The 42-year-old maintained a placid, tightly controlled demeanour even as the tempers of the lawyers and Judge Arthur Engoron began to flare. Ivanka Trump testimony: Why lack of recall is a common legal strategy 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Zircons represent the final vestiges of the lunar magma ocean—the last chapter of the moon’s violent beginnings and the onset of its more placid epoch. The moon is even older than we thought 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Tiny spots of bright, white light speckling a jet black field suggest a placid night sky. Review: Blockbuster beauty and epic disaster intertwine in Julian Charrière's art 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z This is because the Ruki is a sluggish and placid river, which makes it more difficult for the CO2 in the water to escape into the air. Researchers study one of the world's darkest rivers 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z I wrote last year that these widening gaps in Bellevue are bound to upend that city’s placid politics, as they did Seattle’s. The splitting of Seattle — and the Eastside, too — is accelerating 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z In Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi. the long war has created an atmosphere that blends the placid and the deadly. An evacuation order finds few followers in northeast Ukraine despite Russia’s push to retake region 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z That placid existence ended after he returned to his homeland, Guatemala, and then dove into politics. In ‘Land of Sharks,’ Anticorruption Crusader is on Cusp of Presidency 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z I’m far from confident this placid outlook will last. The Outlook for the Economy Has Improved. And Yet. 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Maybe the sunset of the Sawant era is returning Seattle politics, for better or worse, to a more placid, less hyperpolarized state. With Sawant era ending, voters don’t seem in the mood for drama 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Fiona recalled her dad as a quiet and placid man who had a love for painting, photography, museums, galleries, gardening, reading, current affairs and history. Anglesey crossbow murder: Why was my dad hunted and killed? 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z There’s the city of the streets and then there’s another city, of skyscraper condos, of highest-in-the-nation hotel occupancy, of placid villages well-served by broadband and Amazon Fresh trucks. In Seattle, we’re seeing the splitting of a city 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z Even on a seemingly placid stretch of water, the dangers of the water shouldn’t be underestimated. What to know to go whitewater rafting in WA this summer 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The patches of palm trees, a few tall buildings and a slim bridge rise above the placid aqua blue, as if balanced on nothing at all. The America That Americans Forget 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Roads that once serviced farms, dairies, chicken barns and cotton gins abruptly give way to lake, their routes discernible only by the tops of telephone poles that cast cross-shaped shadows on the placid waters. Tulare Lake’s ghostly rebirth brings wonder — and hardship. Inside a community's resilience 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z But most of the flood data used to design our dams comes from the past century, which experts say has been an unusually placid period in California weather. How Extreme Weather Could Threaten California’s Dams 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Though only a 90-minute drive from downtown San Diego, Palomar Mountain State Park feels much more remote, with pristine forests and placid meadows. Five State Parks to Visit This Summer 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Ties between the Israeli state and the plateau's Druze community, whose members profess loyalty to Damascus, are generally placid. Druze opposing Golan wind farm clash with Israeli police 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z But on such a placid surface, and with Khawaja fronting the Australian resistance, England needed to take all of their chances. England defied by classy Khawaja century 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z First responders are warning about the dangers of being swept away by typically placid rivers now raging with thunderous flows. Mt. Whitney: A perilous trek to the top of California's record snowpack 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z It was in seemingly placid landscapes like this, wrought in violence and pregnant with contested meanings, that Valdez encountered his first pachucos. By exploring LA's racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' gave birth to Chicano theater 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z New docuseries “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” goes beyond the placid reality TV façade to examine the family’s connections to the Institute in Basic Life Principles, an ultraconservative, highly influential religious ministry. How a new docuseries pieced together the most damning exposé of the Duggars yet 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Now that he is here, Mr Zelensky's presence not only adds a zing to the placid diplomatic proceedings, it overshadows them. Zelensky dominates summit as G7 leaders call out China 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z A cataract is a place in a river where the otherwise placid flow is upset by a waterfall, a shallow portion, or the presence of boulders that make the river impassable by boats. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In the meantime, the unnerving sight of normally placid stretches of the Kern River transformed into frothing rapids is generating rumors and tension up and down the Kern River. Chevron scrambles to batten down oil fields amid threat of Kern River flooding 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The placid lap, however, was not to the liking of one of the bulls. Raging bull on the grass disrupts rugby match in southern France 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z The gyrations have disturbed a placid period in equities, which over the last week have been helped by better-than-expected earnings for several technology and growth stocks. Banking mess, Fed among worries threatening calm stretch in US stocks 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Originally, parts of the park were expected to be closed through the middle of the week as a snowmelt-fueled deluge had the normally placid Merced River overflowing its banks. Yosemite Valley reopens Sunday ahead of schedule 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z But the placid tone of Proctor’s life is shattered early in the novel. Review | Justin Cronin’s ‘The Ferryman’ carries readers from mystery to mayhem 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Signs of snowmelt-fueled deluge were everywhere in famed Yosemite Valley on Saturday as the normally placid Merced River surged over its banks, swamping roads, erasing swimming beaches, and turning meadows into murky sloughs. Most of Yosemite Valley is closed due to potentially perilous snowpack and flooding 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Some sci-fi scenarios take on a paint-by-numbers quality once the premise is revealed, and I was gearing up for the inevitable bleak and dutiful anthropology of how ordinary users live like placid zombies. Review | ‘Mrs. Davis’ will make your head explode 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The shooting at about 10:34 p.m. on Saturday night shattered that placid atmosphere. Alabama Town Waits for Answers After a Birthday Party Turns Deadly 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The wind had the center-field flags snapping straight out and made every popup and foul ball an adventure in the usually placid ballpark. Dodgers rally for 7 runs in 5th, put chill on Rockies 13-4 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Venetians read newspapers on water buses that ran smoothly in placid canals. Venice Is Saved! Woe Is Venice. 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Likewise, in the years before the pandemic, a relatively placid geopolitical scene made the cost savings of ocean-spanning supply chains seem attractive. Latest crisis to hit U.S. economy illustrates the costs of complacency 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z After all, it was just weeks ago that another atmospheric river turned the normally placid Hangtown Creek into a raging river, eroding the foundation of his business. Column: Government can't save us. Why disaster response increasingly will be people-powered 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Traffic bogs down there, but what used to a white-knuckle experience for pedestrians is now much more placid. The Seattle seesaw: Traffic tickets from police have dropped 90% 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Sustained by the “loyal, practical, considerate” friends that she and her placid boyfriend share along with a cat and an apartment, she feels less than trendy. Review | ‘Couplets,’ an erotic novel in verse, explores the ferocity of desire 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z “The latter business, which consumes his time now, he conducts from the placid shores of Lake Arrowhead — over 80 miles west from the chaotic and destructive nightlife of Los Angeles.” Before producing films, he ran an international prostitution ring. Now he's headed to prison 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z However, Kois, an editor and writer at Slate, echoes Colwin’s placid narrative pattern, chronicling the unassuming lives of his characters to reveal their interconnectedness. Review | ‘Vintage Contemporaries’ is an ode to Laurie Colwin and friendship 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z During an evening visit, I found a couple perched on a boulder in one of the gardens, engaged in quiet conversation — a site of remembrance doubling as one of placid escape. How a new Tucson memorial found a way to mourn mass-shooting victims 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Over the past few minutes, Jones had been so placid — neutral expression, monotone voice, hands stuffed in his sweatshirt pocket — that a reporter felt compelled to ask if winning his first playoff game was fun. Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley power Giants to elusive playoff victory 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Normally a placid place, it has been anything but quiet the last few weeks. Bolsonaro fans flock to ex-president's Florida hideout 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Beyond the urban centers, its communities range from placid suburbs crisscrossed by freeways, mountain towns framed by towering pines and isolated desert havens like hippie Joshua Tree. So long, California: Major county votes to study secession 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z This was because in observing sexual behaviour, male snakes were typically quite physically aggressive while the female was more "placid". Australia: Scientists find clitorises on female snakes 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Caregivers know the idiosyncrasies of their infants: Some may be more placid, while others are more excitable. Hey, new parents — go ahead and ‘spoil’ that baby! 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z On Monday, Lake's moribund coup effort fizzled out as Arizona officials certified the election in a placid document-signing ceremony, utterly free of screaming Proud Boys trying to smash in cop heads or hang election officials. Kari Lake goes out with a whimper: She couldn't galvanize Trump's Jan. 6 army 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z "You've got to get some moisture in it somehow, some weight to try to get it to move around on a placid wicket like that," added Root. 'After the sledgehammer comes the scalpel' 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Bing could be “grumpy” but could also be “placid,” she said. Witness: Walmart shooter seemed to target certain people 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Bing could be “grumpy” but he could also be “placid,” she said. Witness: Walmart shooter seemed to target certain workers, fire at people seemingly dead 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Hearing the movement of blood through the body is supposedly something like an absolute taboo, akin to witnessing the fabrication of Chicken McNuggets — an ordeal after which placid existence is irreparably shattered. Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It's not far from how friends and family describe her: gentle and guileless, with a placid affect that can be difficult to read. "Is the caller the killer?": How Jessica Logan’s 911 call for help became evidence against her 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z But the World War II wreck’s placid appearance was deceiving. 80 years later, WWII German shipwreck still pollutes the seafloor 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Today the land we call Discovery Park is a generally placid spread of forests and meadows where people stroll and picnic, but fighting over its future continues. A1 Revisited: Reexamining our 1970 coverage of Native American protests at Fort Lawton 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z They recall nothing so much as the placid white onlookers in horrible souvenir lynching photographs, here rendered in a multicolored array as a pleasantly flamboyant throng. Review: In a must-see L.A. show, painter Bob Thompson uses art history to consider social injustice 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Today the land we call Discovery Park is a generally placid spread of forests and meadows where people stroll and picnic, but the fighting continues. What’s next for Seattle’s historically contested Discovery Park? 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z At a field hospital not far from the front line in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, the sound of artillery fire and incoming rounds punctured the otherwise placid surroundings on a warm fall day. A soldier and civilian are treated side-by-side at a field hospital in the south. 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z In the placid, rolling landscape that unfurls behind him, women in traditional dress toil in the fields. Review: Korean Modern art gets its long-overdue spotlight at LACMA 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Slowly the placid landscape reveals itself as a man’s torso, seen lying down on his stomach with legs spread wide, mooning a viewer. Review: At MOCA, painter Tala Madani playfully smashes the patriarchy with pie 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Many residents said they were shaken by the attacks, and some began taking security measures rarely seen in the generally placid communities. Canada Stabbing Suspect Remains at Large After Police Manhunt at Reserve 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Visitors can bring their own watercraft or rent a rowboat, canoe, kayak or pedal boat to pilot across the placid waters of the largest freshwater pond in the state. Six park-and-pitch camping spots for wonderfully woodsy getaways 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z That placid picture completely changed in the last few decades of the twentieth century. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Fishing boats churned across the placid waters of the harbor. In Grenada, a.k.a. the Spice Isle, a foodie paradise blossoms 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z She promptly disappears them up her dress, then returns to her placid life as a remote pop culture image. Review: At MOCA, painter Tala Madani playfully smashes the patriarchy with pie 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Jan. 21 was a cold, bleak day in Geneva, with gusty winds whipping the surface of the usually placid lake that shares the Swiss city’s name. Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion The Potomac River is a broad, usually placid estuary whose disposition abruptly turns feral just beyond Georgetown. Review | In the galleries: Seasonal group shows include a singular artist 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Part of what makes “Resurrection” so unnerving is the placid calm of Roth’s performance. Unpacking the year's freakiest ending with the stars and creator of 'Resurrection' 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Mac Cosgrove-Davies presents a placid, extremely horizontal scene of the Hudson River, made at a location with no hint of modernity. Review | In the galleries: Old-time technology with a contemporary twist 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z What’s left of their home came to rest on the opposite side of their normally placid creek. Kentucky flood survivors turn to grim task: burying the dead 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The heat is a lot more tolerable in San Antonio’s best-known area, the River Walk, where tourists drink margaritas from colorful plastic cups and ride boats under the shade trees that trace the placid river. In San Antonio, the Poor Live on Their Own Islands of Heat 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Playing 20 scandal-free years in the insatiable New York media market, Jeter disguised vanilla morsels as sound bites and hid his personality behind that placid, handsome face. Perspective | Derek Jeter remains ‘The Captain’ of his narrative 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Rock Creek, which runs through the city of Red Lodge and normally is placid and sometimes just ankle deep, became a raging river. Yellowstone flooding reveals forecast flaws as climate warms 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z "It is a kind of climatic fossil, glaciers like the Marmolada are considered 'placid', they are expected to just retreat." Rising temperatures reawakening 'placid' Alpine glaciers 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Taylor occasionally films her subjects outside — against exquisite sunrises and sunsets, pink skies and lavender clouds reflected below by a placid pond. Review | Boy Scouts sex abuse documentary is a portrait of shocking complacency 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z What was an unprecedented massacre on a placid college campus has repeated itself for two generations and counting. Perspective | I hid from the Texas Tower sniper. His successors have found us all. 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Images of the search showed the river seemingly placid above the dam, but roiling below, with some of the group’s paddleboards and inflatable rafts caught in the currents below the rush of water. Police: Body of 1 of 2 missing women found in Virginia river 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Images of the search show the river seemingly placid above the dam, but roiling below, with some of the group’s paddleboards and inflatable rafts caught in the currents below the rush of water. 2 missing in Virginia after group went over James River dam 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z In the clubhouse, Brown was even more placid as his colt loped through tepid fractions of 24.32 for a quarter mile and 47.44 for a half mile. Early Voting Wins Preakness Stakes 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Central to the area is a placid pond and plenty of places to sit and meditate among the cedars and firs. Stay off the beaten path this summer at these 8 unique Pacific Northwest locales 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Jacarandas are everywhere, but they are especially abundant in Mid-Wilshire and along the placid streets of the Westside. Op-Ed: The unofficial tree of Los Angeles reigns again 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z |
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