Word: calming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usual and had cheerful conversation with several people. No sign of depression or emotional disturbance was noted. On Nov. 4, he had a conversation with his advisor in the afternoon. He also sent an e-mail to a friend to seek help. He looked very upset, could not calm down and left a session halfway, something he had never done before. At midnight that day, he said to a friend who went to his dormitory to discuss a problem set "You must save me!". On Nov. 5, Hailei went back to work early in the morning and talked briefly with...
This offensive strategy hopefully will also serve to calm the nerves that go hand in hand with the first game of the season...
There is something oceanic about the music of singer-songwriter Alana Davis, 23. Her enchanting debut album, Blame It on Me (Elektra), has a pacific calm to it, undulating with soft folk, light jazz and warm R. and B., and yet, beneath the serene surface, one senses a depth, a power, precious things hidden away like sunken treasure ships. In concert one gets more of a glimpse: Davis has a sensuous, sliding alto, young and vibrant, but infused with old, smoky blues. She is a major new talent...
...stock Russian, working together to revive the Cold War, marvel at his cool aplomb and heartless ability to ignore the impending torture and death that could ensue if things go wrong. The clever folks in the audience can laugh and laugh, knowing it's really ignorance that gives such calm, whereas for Wallace it's the assumption that because he paid for the ticket, his safety in this theater of life is assured...
...novel. Existence with his flighty mother Mirry is less than satisfactory; when post-murder complications force her to leave Ian to fend for himself for a while, Ian, instead of lamenting her absence, looks forward to "a really good tidy-up" of their filthy apartment. He alone remains calm through all the turbulence of chaotic events, yet it is his plangent, intermittent requests for paternal affection that add a touching although never cloying emotional dimension to the book...