Sentences with phrase «placid world»

These crafty interlopers represent a hybrid between the two investing models that have long ruled the normally placid world of startup funding.

Not exact matches

The publisher's promotional material appears to build on the expectations associated with this sort of story, describing Mariette in Ecstasy as «a powerful portrayal of the disturbing world beneath the placid daily life of an American convent.»

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.

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.

«True Blood» plummets me into a world so dark and dirty and hilarious and unnerving that it glamours me into a placid state, then leaves me wanting more.

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).

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.

She was a misfit in a cloistered world, performing routines to songs like ZZ Top's «Sleeping Bag» and the Jurassic Park theme rather than placid classical music.

Unlike that recent captivating doc, Anderson glides through the semi-documentary introduction to a private world, keeping things weird with Jonny Greenwood's deceptively placid piano score.

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.

Lev Grossman's Worlds Lev Grossman was born in 1969, the son of two English professors, and grew up in Lexington, MA, a placid little suburb of Boston.

So whilst you might have seen some relatively placid working line springers, if you buy one purely as a pet, you might well still be shocked when you end up with a turbo powered dog that has little to no interest in you once he gets through your front door and the wide world beckons.

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.

And a world climate that compared to the [British and North Sea] climate of 800 and 900 years ago was like, we really do live in a time of an extraordinarly placid climatic optimum.