Sentences with phrase «but placid»

But the placid waters of January belied the rough seas that were to surprise the captains of industry in the second half of the year.

But let's be honest, my two little ones are anything but placid.

A dynamic, inquisitive, strong - willed, sensitive child, she is anything but placid.

The sand itself (gray, rough) isn't top - quality, but the placid cove is ideal for kids.

Road imperfections are handled without drama, but the placid ride comes at the expense of cornering precision.

A dynamic, inquisitive, strong - willed, sensitive child, she is anything but placid.

The history writing that results from these new perspectives is anything but placid, since competition among champions of the various groups can be severe.

Not exact matches

We did get a couple days of volatility as there was some geopolitical risk coming into the market around some headlines in North Korea, but generally the market's been pretty placid.

She cooperates not as an act of placid obedience, but of sacrificial courage.

But it's not like everything was placid before they arrived.

The model is not one of gentle, placid growing but of crisis — leaps and falls, perhaps of struggling up a precipitous mountain face.

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

There is a majestic, hushed sort of calm to rivers, but they are not silent and they are certainly not still — even the most placid of rivers is going somewhere.

Back in arsenal I'm sick of it I just feel we need to light a fire under not only the players but the whole club way too placid, yawn yawn!

I think it will take a few years for Wenger to pacify Jens, Bold had more bite when he 1st became assistant manager but over time became placid, the 1st 6 months though... Jens has a strong personality from what we can read so why not be optimistic?

He's great in press conferences, but in the dugout he seems far too placid, clinging to his clipboard, and looking more like a school examiner than the manager of the world's best.

Sally runs around like a maniac but didn't begin to do so until 2 years of age [«just was a placid child»].

But by a ratio of 4 - 1, voters in 1999 turned down the request, the result of a public relations debacle for the normally placid Naperville Park District.

But at the moment, in his office, he regains his placid demeanor when the next question focuses strictly on his science.

But it also found that the wind there is surprisingly placid, and no one yet knows why (Icarus, doi.org/bqf3).

But we shouldn't expect to be placid in old age, or wait for feelings of security and safety.

But watching the film and its endless factory of computer - generated sets which elicit placid line readings from actors who never know to whom or what they're reacting, left me longing for the tactile intimacy of THE WINTER SOLDIER.

The movie surely owes something to Polanski, Cronenberg, et al., in its use of an apparently placid, upper - middle - class setting as the background for perverse horrors, but De Van's fearless, high - wire performance is uniquely its own.

Schirman allows each man to explain his motivations unabetted by intruding or directing questions, but the proceedings have such a rigidly determined structure, amplified by chapter titles, that the power and conviction in their recountings deteriorate into a placid series of back - and - forths.

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.

Clearly, if Wilson played Robin over-the-top as in both Pitch Perfect films, she would have drowned out not only Johnson's performance but Mann's placid doctor character as well.

But in atypical Haneke fashion, there is also a throbbing heartbeat beneath the placid surface

His latest started on a higher rung, but still ascended: early concerns about an overly pat single - couple divide gradually evaporated, as savage supporting turns from Imelda Staunton and David Bradley tie knots in what might seem a placid endorsement of marriage.

As an opening shot, this image of placid river water is less spectacular than many of those that we have studied for Jim's project, but its simplicity is deceptive and it contains all of the qualities of a great opening shot that Jim has been encouraging us to see.

So when AI moves away from the placid confines of the suburban Swinton home and into the wild and woolly world of such locales as the neon - drenched, hedonistic urban center known as Rouge City or — in the film's most stunning sight — a Manhattan that is all but completely submerged in water, Osment's David remains a captivating companion on an increasingly strange and surreal journey.

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 EisenberBut 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 Eisenberbut 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).

It's a far more placid picture, for sure, but one that better typifies the movie.

In a small, quaint English town, the naïve, ginger - haired dreamer Jon (Domhnall Gleeson) lives a placid, but utterly charmless life.

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.

The rack - and - pinion steering is uncommunicative but nicely weighted and precise and otherwise in tune with the Pilot's rather placid manners.

In reality, it works a treat — the Sahara displays thoroughly placid road manners on the bitumen, still with some body roll but nothing like what you might expect for its bulk, while its wheel articulation in tough terrain keeps all four wheels in contact with terra firma for the vast majority of the time.

Eco keeps things placid for the best fuel economy, but aside from steering, which is frighteningly light and vague in normal mode, it's tough to tell the difference between Normal and Sport.

But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens.

At first, it seemed a simple story, but the more I wrote, the more I disturbed the placid surface and uncovered treasures in the depths.

The gunmetal surface of the water looked placid as a pond, but she knew that for an illusion.

But my inability to match Bruno's ability to combine policing with humor, common sense and his very idiosyncratic sense of justice might well cause a riot in our placid small town.

But Hans remains placid and unresponsive through most of the story — in fact, this is one of the reasons why Rachel leaves him.

Munro is in full stride here: her famous evenhanded yet astonishingly acute psychological depictions of ordinary mothers, fathers, lovers, and neighbors, which she relays to her readers in her trademark placid but sonorous prose style, display her supreme mastery of the form.

Swimming and boating are forbidden, but seasonally the migrating water birds rest on the placid surface as they make their way south.

The girl made this journey alone and unknowing, but soon she would whip the town into another kind of maelstrom, one that would make the river seem placid by comparison.

It's a good set - up though, as the first omnibus did a good job sucking me in but I don't think I can handle that much of Mitsuri Adachi's placid characters every time.

Even a few minutes of handling them will familiarize them enough with the human touch that they not only stop hissing, but settle down in a friendly, placid way.

Berners are generally placid but are always up for a romp with the owner, whom they live to please.

Presa Canarios may be very impressive, intimidating and imposing to look at, but they are actually known to be well - behaved, calm and placid dog breeds that thrive in a good home environment.