Word: placidness
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...deputies of the Foreign Ministers last week chewed a tired cud of procedural issues. Their sessions were placid enough, and utterly unproductive. The biggest question before them was whether the Austrian treaty could be put ahead of the German. The bland and affable Russian delegate, A. A. Smirnov, said...
Stops and Starts. Far-fetched and solemn jokester though she was, Gertrude Stein as a writer was about as gabby as they come. Maddeningly persistent and maddeningly placid, in Four in America she seems to take all day to say-with many stops and starts, reveries, irrelevancies and fond repetitions-what a good sharp professor could put in a few paragraphs...
...Victorian Age, Red Plush is one of those placid novels that wallow in family trivia, delight in minor, certain-to-be-resolved family crises and snicker at family eccentrics. The family is accorded an existence of its own, dominating and dwarfing the individual characters; it becomes a sort of metaphysical entity, unexplored and uncriticized, that remains firm and true, regardless of the peccadilloes of its members. The reader is therefore seldom aroused about the fate of any individual Moorhouse. For even if erratic David were to choose the wrong bride (though he does not) or if moody Phoebe were...
...then than he could now, once advised Siqueiros to quit his politicking and concentrate on painting. Had he done so, Siqueiros might already have surpassed the reputations of his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Rivera and Orozco. There was no denying that his latest exhibition made their work look placid...
...people, to Dr. Bruch (5 ft. 8 in., 145 lbs.), are not the placid and jolly folks they are generally reputed. Their good humor, she thinks, is a pose-a thin veneer over a greedy, irritable personality that will not brook any denial of its wants...