So placid, so submissive.

Very placid and predictable types.

You seem such a placid little thing.

When you're placid, you are beautiful... but when you are angry, you are superb.

In 1932, he competed in the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York in the sprint mushing demonstration sport.

Some hold a rosy view of the simpler, supposedly more placid lives of tribal hunter gatherers relative to our own.

Rapid economic growth in China and India means that both countries will give primacy to a stable flow of energy and therefore to placid relations with Russia.

Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.

It has been my country apos s honour to have hosted the Olympic Games in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Lake Placid and Squaw Valley and, now, to welcome the world to Atlanta in 1996.

The challenge of governing global risks is nothing less than the challenge of preventing the end of history not as the placid apotheosis of liberal democracy s global victory, but as the worst collective failure we can imagine.

Economic uncertainty is also dramatically affecting Brazilian politics. And a once placid, even predictable, presidential election campaign has been thrown into disarray by the death of the Brazilian Socialist Party candidate, Eduardo Campos, in an airplane crash in August.

For a time that I find to be the most placid and uneventful hour of the day, four in the morning sure gets an awful lot of bad press across a lot of different media from a lot of big names.

Kuwait has just held its eleventh parliamentary election since independence in 1961. Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.

For a time that I find to be the most placid and uneventful hour of the day, four in the morning sure gets an awful lot of bad press (Laughter) across a lot of different media from a lot of big names.

He had not the placid, quiet, unworldly air of Simeon Halliday on the contrary, a particularly wide awake and au fait appearance, like a man who rather prides himself on knowing what he is about, and keeping a bright lookout ahead peculiarities which sorted rather oddly with his broad brim and formal phraseology.