Sentences with phrase «placid surfaces»

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

France's ugly history of racial aggression and unrest, particularly relevant at the present moment, briefly punctures the film's placid surface when local thugs attack and nearly burn down Maison Mumbai.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

House Speaker Dogara appears placid on the surface.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

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.

Nothing churns; the surface always remains placid as the movie marches gracefully toward its climax.

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

The ocean surface was calm and placid as the endurance athlete's smooth and powerful stokes carried him out into the channel.

If diving is not your thing, or you're bringing small children with you then there are snorkeling tours available, as well as placid canoe tours that allow you to see the reefs from the surface of the water, sailing charters and day trips to the Palau Aquarium at the Palau International Coral Reef Center.

Alex Katz uses his light touch to turn the surface of water into placid, pastel - colored abstractions.

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