Sentences with phrase «with placid»

There are long traditions in Canadian political life, and not all of them are consistent with the placid, social democratic vision that was shattered along with windows and police vehicles this afternoon.

There are long traditions in Canadian political life, and not all of them are consistent with the placid, social democratic vision that was shattered along with windows and police vehicles this afternoon... [more]

His finest landscape paintings - riverscapes and scenic views with placid livestock are characterized by great serenity and masterful handling of glowing light in an Italianate style - a style he took from Claude Lorrain and other classical painters.

Her photographic images are composed beautifully, melancholic in its mood, bristling with harmony and tantalizes with a placid color palette.

Praia Grande beach is best for families, with placid, shallow waters, a play park, and a selection of beach bars.

This hotel claims to be the most extravagant all - inclusive hotel in the resort and is comprised of 311 luxury guestrooms and suites decorated with placid ocean tones with sea views, cable TV, air conditioning, coffeemaker and full bathroom with shower and tub.

With placid waters and a glut of marine species, the Sea of Cortez is the ideal body of water to learn scuba.

This aristocratic French hound was bred for hunting small game, but when he's not out in the field, he makes quite a laid - back fellow with a placid personality.

With his placid personality and short - statured yet noble appearance,...

This hybrid blends the clever goofiness of the poodle with the placid loyalty of the Bernese.

And she naturally grows bored with the placid nature of life in the hidden wilderness of America.

Kidman remains a riveting screen presence, capable of portraying deep internal conflicts with a placid opacity.

Jennifer Lawrence plays Dominika with a placid poker face to preserve her secrets and the script's — we never know when she's being sincere and with whom, and it's all in service of keeping the twists and turns in place.

If he hadn't, he would have ended an uneventful life with a placid death.

Such a position caused an uproar of controversy in the American Jewish community, to which he reacted with his placid and unflappable confidence.

But we may be confusing a healthy congregation with a placid one.

Not exact matches

«Canada is very well - positioned for any discussions with the United States,» Schwarzman said, looking so placid and reassuring.

The 2011 Orange Wave came with a platform whose placid title could have belonged to any party's book: Giving Your Family a Break — Practical First Steps.

Levy, a professor of historical theology at Providence College, overturns the image of a placid medieval Church and shows instead that the crises of interpretive authority that we associate with the early modern period in fact have their roots in the turbulent controversies of the Middle Ages.

The publisher's promotional material appears to build on the expectations associated with this sort of story, describing Mariette in Ecstasy as «a powerful portrayal of the disturbing world beneath the placid daily life of an American convent.»

His blond hair wet with sweat, his usually placid, almost small - boyish features twisted with anger, Hunt waited for Depailler.

Soon after the war ended, his purpose bulwarked with the knowledge of all those former failures, Wankel set up a workshop of his own in a boathouse on the banks of Bavaria's placid Bodensee in Lindau.

- «Give me an award» - Despite his protests in press conferences, Mourinho has cut a much more placid figure on the touchline this season and believes his good behaviour should be rewarded with a new prize.

If your baby is sleepy or placid (as is the case with many babies who have Down syndrome or other neurological disorders), you'll want to wake her up completely before breastfeeding and nurse her frequently throughout the day.

With regards to parenting your aggressive toddler, you will have a longer journey than a mom with a more placid happy - go - lucky chWith regards to parenting your aggressive toddler, you will have a longer journey than a mom with a more placid happy - go - lucky chwith a more placid happy - go - lucky child.

In contrast to that placid scene, Paladino and his campaign manager Michael Caputo got into a Wednesday - evening dustup with New York Post columnist Fred Dicker at the Sagamore in Bolton Landing, where Paladino was addressing a Business Council meeting.

Most of the sunlike stars it surveyed for planets proved to be far less placid than our own star, contaminating the spacecraft's delicate datasets with astrophysical «noise» that would require years of extra observing time to overcome.

In the last few years, scientists have found that the supposedly placid cells help neurons form connections with each other (ScienceNOW, 26 January 2001) and might even be stem cells themselves (ScienceNOW, 15 June 1999).

Its poles are home to placid methane lakes and its equatorial regions are covered with dunes up to 100 metres high.

We have been tramping up and down hills, through waist - high swampy Tussac grass, across fragrant herbfields made of Burnet with its sticky burrs, and gingerly along beaches with perpetually angry Fur Seals and - mostly - placid Elephant Seals.

Experiment with bold designs and the mod colours by turning to colours like radiant orchid, dazzling yellow, placid blue, and vibrant violet.

placid tactile at heart an old fashion romantic hard working great sense of humour divorced with a grown up daughter likes the usual nights in or out hoping to meet a lady to share that elusive happy ever after?

In the new film, he gives one fond and musing speech — «I grew up lookin» at Oklahoma, from the south bank of the Red River» — that may be the most placid interlude in any Friedkin film, and the cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, backs it up with some tack - sharp images of busy pizza parlors and empty pool halls, where life clatters on or comes to a lonely halt.

Chabrol's ostensibly placid version of Madame Bovary invests Flaubert's portrait of stifled womanhood with unmistakable flintiness.

Michael Pearce's Beast is a quiet sort of thriller, a dark and disquieting mystery with its most pressing drama roiling beneath a comparatively placid surface.

Yonebayashi gives Arrietty an excellent sense of balance, with the adventure aspects of the story, which feel legitimately dangerous providing well - paced contrast the film's more placid moments.

Playing this bitter young dreamer, Emile Hirsch is baby - faced and placid, with serious knitted eyebrows and a pouf of George Michael - in - the - wild hair.

The movie finds Lanthimos re-teaming with his Lobster star Colin Farrell, with the Irish actor playing a surgeon with a seemingly placid domestic life, married to Nicole Kidman's searching mother and raising two kids.

Abuse of Weakness has a steady undercurrent of tension throughout, and Huppert's emotionally clamped down performance combined with the alternately placid and disturbing textures of Maud's life give it the feel of a waking dream, with hints of the Gothic.

OLIVE KITTERIDGE tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive (Frances McDormand), whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center.

When you look at Turner's oil and watercolor masterpieces, of churning oceans under thunderclouds and placid lakes under sun - drenched bridges, you may imagine a slender fellow wearing fancy clothes, gently kissing the canvas with his brush, held between three fingers.

Starring Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins, Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy.

The selection is wrapped up with LAKE PLACID 2: The «Gnawed Up» Version (9:05).

However, Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian said «it is often poignant and humorous but also placid and complacent, with performances bordering on the self - regarding and even faintly insufferable.»

But Fogelman is smarter than that and so are his characters, especially Cannavale's Tom and his no - nonsense wife, Samantha (Jennifer Garner), who initially resist Danny's dramatic intrusion (complete with football - field - sized tour bus) into their placid suburban lives, but soon realize that there are certain advantages to having a rock star in the family — like jumping to the front of the line for an elite Manhattan school specializing in the needs of children like their ADHD - afflicted daughter, Hope (Giselle Eisenberg).

With Lockhart's health and sanity draining away as surely as the arresting visuals are leeched of any bright colours, A Cure for Wellness attempts a Lynchian burrow beneath the sanatorium's placid croquet lawns to diagnose the soul - sickness of modern man, no less.

As the young woman, Therese, and her titular object of affection tentatively flirt with one another, the placid blush of a clarinet swirls around the low hum of an oboe like two wrestlers looking for a weak spot.

Unlike that recent captivating doc, Anderson glides through the semi-documentary introduction to a private world, keeping things weird with Jonny Greenwood's deceptively placid piano score.

It may not be the placid daily driver that the Audi and the Mercedes are, but the M3 sets itself apart from those two cars with every hard and fast mile you drive.

That, combined with a relatively low 5500 - rpm redline and an oddly placid rev limiter, made for a lot of embarrassing late - shift decisions.