Word: placidness
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Normally the Shultz style is placid...
...reflection that we had the sunlight to illumine the cathedral corals as well as the virulent, striving tangles of growths through which we jetted and lunged and circled and floated descending down to rest. Some of the creatures in the Aquarium were so beautiful, so diffident, and placid, that watching them dissolved the awareness of observation, and gently unburdened the day, without sentimentality or luxury, like a Bach Chorale-Prelude...
Igor Stravinsky is one of the least bathetic men who has ever lived. He cannot tolerate the placid idiocy and demagogic pollutants of American society. He criticizes, as an American citizen, the corruption of monotone imaginations. He follows an austerely classical sense of art as the discipline of craft. His credo is essentially that of da Vinci: "The only liberty is through discipline." But he is saved from prodigiously sterile, mechanical retrogression by the capriciousness of his intellect...
Within seconds, a sickening staccato of rifle fire signaled the transformation of a once-placid campus into the site of an historic American tragedy...
...nerves; marriage is a ferocious pillow-fight battle of the sexes. The links do not stop there. The tempo of Manhattan is a kind of running fever; modern marriage runs a fever, and the partners are always taking its temperature. It simply is not the placid old heaven-ordained, till-death-do-us-part, for-better-for-worse institution it used...