Sentences with phrase «placid surface»

Surges of emotion roil under placid surfaces in the new drama «Columbus» — at least in theory.

And this is a different kind of movie for Luc and Jean - Pierre Dardenne, in which the urgency pulses beneath the seemingly placid surface, and it is all keyed to Haenel's extraordinary performance.

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.

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

Under the most placid surfaces might lie a turbulent mix of feelings just waiting to surface and wash everything in a new light.

We also offer swimming and snorkeling tours of both underground rivers and placid surface pools.

Beneath the seemingly placid surface, Corbett finds a literal reign of terror, and although he is a hometown boy, white and the son a prominent citizen, he finds himself in just as much danger as the black community.

Maury Wills and Leo Durocher were the two most volatile personalities ever to ruffle the placid surface of baseball in Los Angeles.

The dusky blue waters of Lake Victoria stretch lazily across the Tanzanian plains, but beneath the placid surface, a massacre has taken place.

Shiota gets a great deal of mileage out of the extreme contrast between the film's placid surface - that of a lightweight teen romance - and it's underlying themes of sexual degradation and control.

Without a word about issues or elections, he finds historical traumas seething beneath the placid surfaces of middle - class near - storybook lives, where liberal sentiments clash with conservative frustrations, and urbane professionalism meshes with the fires of resentment.

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

Is there anything «strange» anymore about lurid attachments or explosive violence disrupting the placid surface of middle - class life, high or low?

As usual, there's a multitude of tensions bubbling under the placid surface, along class and racial lines as well as the requisite secrets from the past haunting certain folks.

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.

Together, they search for the link between the crimes - and uncover a dark secret at work beneath the placid surface of this idyllic Amish community.

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

Here you can search for a pre-historic monster that lurks beneath the placid surface of Loch Ness.

Feel the tropical trade winds blow through your hair as you glide across the placid surface of the Caribbean Sea aboard a sleek sailing catamaran.

The exhibition includes several of Valentin's large, polyester resin sculptures that present this investigation on a massive scale, complicating it by introducing questions of the structural stability below their placid surfaces.

Tiny surface ripples and a slow greenish glow at the base conjures thoughts of the sea at night when a small breeze awakens the placid surface.