The phrase
"eerie calm" refers to a situation that appears calm and peaceful, but also feels strange or unsettling.
Full definition
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.
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.
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.
But as the electrodes poked into this man's thalamus, Schiff and Giacino heard only silence,
the eerie calm of a stalled - out brain.
The Sea Star crew, their ship slowly sinking, has sought refuge in
the eerie calm of the eye of a...
The soundtrack is silent as the camera surveys the carnage with
an eerie calm.
It's
his eerie calm, his measured speaking, his superior grin that give Lecter power.
Bettany digs into Kaczynski with
an eerie calm and intensity.
Still, the end manages to pack an emotional punch that is impressive in
its eerie calm, a forceful counterpoint to all the noise and clatter of what has come before.
He jumps around the screen like a deranged lunatic, going from
an eerie calm to a childish psychopath.
An eerie calm hung over everyone, making the bright edges of the sparse conversations blunt and dull.
Instead of
eerie calm, it takes real concentration and focus to consistently match ratios, revs and road speed while finding the best line and making steering corrections.
Overlapping bleeps and bloops accentuate
the eerie calm.