The phrase "eerie calm" refers to a situation that appears calm and peaceful, but also feels strange or unsettling.
Sentences with «eerie calm»
Awaiting trial behind bars, Longo didn't confess to the heinous crime, but he didn't express much grief about it either, and Franco — clad in a bright orange jumpsuit, his limbs in chains — wears the man's eerie calm like a mask of false civility. (film.avclub.com)
I had missed a Pontormo Madonna's eerie calm above a crying child, a Maine sunset by Frederic Edwin Church, a typically reserved still life by Giorgio Morandi, and a firmly three - dimensional Kurt Schwitters, but suppose I stop there before this review becomes a laundry list. (haberarts.com)
Suddenly an eerie calm fell over the scene, and I looked out the broken windows to see a massive, roaring wall of water headed straight toward me. (rachelheldevans.com)