Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...above the din is the calm, steady voice of Trent Lott, urging Clinton to "have the strength of his convictions to submit this treaty as soon as possible for the scrutiny of the United States Senate." Come into my parlor, said the spider...
...Times article that he thinks Americans can capture the social and personal benefits of religion without belief. Doubt, however, is not as problem-free as Miles makes it sound. Sitting in church may not be the best idea for every agnostic. Miles writes as if church attendance promises perfect calm and love for everyone, but for the skeptic, it may just introduce more big questions to worry about...
Morrison related her experiences in learning to use her voice more assertively, describing situations in which calm dialogue broke down and she was forced to yell to gain a suspect's cooperation...
...climax of Diebenkorn's work was, by general consent, the Ocean Park series, which he began in 1967. Ocean Park is part of Santa Monica, the beachside suburb of Los Angeles where he had his studio. From its high crystalline light, its big calm planes of sea and sky, its cuts and interlacings of highway divider and curb and gable and yellow sand, Diebenkorn produced a marvelous synthesis that, though prolonged through more than 140 large canvases, had very few weak moments...
...leaves an impression of curiosity, not indecision. The paintings are broadly brushed and then "tuned" by passages of fine, but not fidgety, detail. The color, glazed or discreetly scumbled, is luminous--now diffuse like sea fog, now hard and bright as direct sun. The Ocean Parks radiate an Apollonian calm, an uncoercive authority. They are the creations of a man with a fully integrated temperament, candid but not showy. There is nothing else quite like them in modern painting, in America or the world...