Sentences with phrase «placid by»

A Great Pyrenees is placid by nature, so despite their size, they are excellent house dogs.

«And while the haunting imagery of Sept. 11 may have made investors hypersensitive to the recurrence of disaster — and made earlier years seem placid by comparison — such macro events aren't unusual at all.

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.

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History is rarely made by people of placid character, and ecclesiastical history is no exception.

There are those who are by nature placid and even lethargic, and there are tempestuous beings whose passions are at white heat and whose temper is on a hair trigger.

This early insight into the ugly realities of an industrial society, particularly the exploitation of men by other men and the church's placid indifference, was to change his pastoral ministry.

On the other hand, a slight gain in strength may not counterbalance a loss of harmony, and great strength accompanied by serious discord may be inferior to a simple and placid harmony.

The standard objection to this line of interpretation is that Romans did not represent Barth's final position: the disruptiveness of the early Barth was displaced later on by the more placid, doctrinal tones of the Church Dogmatics.

By churning the once - placid water and contorting themselves into flip turns, they strike at a basic myth about age.

H is almost 2 and half now, my beautiful placid baby who was always content to sit and watch the world go by is now a very cheeky, feisty and loving little girl.

By the end if the day my placid little baby was a horrible, clingy little monster.

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.

The approach to the general election was relatively placid, broken only by the tragic death of defence secretary Bob Ainsworth under a tank on Salisbury Plain.

LAKE PLACID, NY (07/02/2013)(readMedia)-- The Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) has agreed to enact a contract CSEA members ratified more than a year ago, after being cited by the state Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).

LAKE PLACID — Discussions are underway for Essex County to fully take over the operation of the Lake Placid Xprss, a public trolley and bus service, by the end of the year.

For the first time in memory in the normally placid party, challengers are mounting primary fights in 4 of the 35 State Senate districts now controlled by Republicans.

All this adds to the still - emerging picture of our solar system as a dynamic place of continual upheaval, not a static and placid domain as imagined by many scientists in the past.

North American killer bees are hybrids, the offspring of relatively placid European bees — the kind favored by honey producers — and an aggressive African species that earned its nickname by reputedly stinging to death small animals.

It could be that NGC 1052 - DF2 was once a placid mass of gas and has been recently perturbed by another unseen galaxy nearby, sparking star formation.

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

It turns out Emmet's (and everyone else's) highly regimented life is the creation of the evil President Business (née Lord Business, played by Will Ferrel), who is striving for a world of placid perfection against the more freeform Master Builders, including Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman in full sage mode).

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.

Inge is determined and yet fragile, placid and yet spinning a million miles an hour beneath the surface, and her journey — both around Germany and her past — could only be carried off by a performance of immense skill.

There's no easier way to improve a placid car than by adding a clutch pedal and stir stick, and that definitely applies here.

Performance is placid, with ample acceleration accompanied by occasionally high sound levels.

Currey's colorful and lush illustrations have a timeless charm that is reminiscent of Beatrix Potter; the rabbits frolic in sheep - and - cow - filled meadows warmed by the sun and dotted with flowers, and even the wide stream is placid and soft.

Any sudden outbreak of biting, or other aggression, from a normally placid cat should be checked by your veterinarian.

Older cats have less energy and are more placid than kittens and are content to spend much of their time watching the world go by.

The long stretch of tropical beach is protected by coral reef forming a natural swimming pool, particularly good for children who love to explore the marine life in the placid blue sea.

Sixty years passed before the placid waters around Ballast Point were again disturbed by deep - sea keels, when Sebastián Vizcaíno anchored on November 10, 1602.

The mountains fall into the sea and mirror in incredibly placid waters, often made uncertain by the fog.

By Justin Pope - The Associated Press CNN, November15th, 2005 Grey Whales Baja ISLA CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- Across the channel, the setting sun turned the sharp, desert mountains of the Baja Peninsula a dusty red as they plunged into the placid blue and turquoise waters of the Gulf of California.

At the Baga bank of river placid, there is a Chapel of St. Annie, a STD boot providing best Communication facility for tourist built by Dona Engracia Braganca, a former Head Mistress of St. Joseph High School and her son Michael provide speedboat entertainment for people driving for the view of river and showing scenes of Dolphins and Crocodile upper reaches of Mandovi River.

Today, visitors can climb aboard an inner tube to ride down the placid Caves Branch River, entering miles of passageways that still feature artifacts and sacred objects left behind by Maya priests.

Paddlers can explore placid river reaches by kayak.

In accompaniment with one of the most placid video game soundtracks provided by 65daysofstatic, a real tranquil ambience is created.

Guy Yanai's pieces fuse the placid landscapes and still lives of traditional painting with a pixilated style inspired by retro computer graphics.

A quiet, placid atmosphere filled the rooms of the group show «All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.»

The ethereal aesthetic quality of the portraits done by Aleah Chapin at Flowers Gallery evoked a personal history that resonated in a soft placid glow for Chelsea's Thursday art night.

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.

A glittery apparition of a monkey by Chris Ofili (b. 1968), a sprightly figure by Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972) made of densely collaged bits, and a placid landscape by Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956) composed of diligently arranged pills.

That's because the Sun's surface, as imaged here by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, is actually quite placid.

By comparison, the crypto markets lately have been placid.

Private: Serene, tranquil, peaceful, quiet, unperturbed, placid, out - of - the - way, enveloped (by trees, gardens, nature), solitary, a retreat, a haven.