placidly

How To Use placidly In A Sentence

• An extravagant collection of activities centered on the family shrine, as the sweet scent of incense hovered placidly above us.
• In a provincial war office, a young woman, Eve, placidly attacks her work (she is a coder), her days enlivened by the gossip of her female colleagues and the joshing of the Big Bad Wolves, a couple of lippy sergeants.
• Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
• Her eyes gaze placidly out from skilled maquillage, her expression indecipherable.
• A single fly was placed on the platform, and placidly stayed there, motionless, until the test stimulus was presented.
• Having delivered this eulogism of the dead, the lady folded her hands placidly, and with eyes cast down, but attentive, settled herself to await developments. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play
• Go placidly, amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
• Madame Speck said they always drank it; and so placing a teaspoonful of bohea in a cauldron of water, she placidly handed out this decoction, which we took with cakes and tartines. The Fitz-Boodle Papers
• This gesture of taking the son hostage, the better to placidly kill the mother, this calm affirmation, in the face of the world, of a crime of filiation that extends an imaginary guilt to an entire family is well worth recalling a few ambassadors (to France, Spain, Italy, even to the United States). Bernard-Henri Lévy: After Sakineh, Her Son
• Water buffalo and goats graze placidly alongside the track; elegant white cranes glide serenely across the paddy fields.