placidness

• “Wanting to fill my eyes and thoughts with beauty as I began chemotherapy, I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of”

  Interview with Susan Vreeland

• “Whenever he came in my sight, the thought of this gave me an indignation that made his presence disgustful to me; and the more, as I fancied I beheld in his face a triumph which reproached my weakness on that account; although perhaps it was only the same vivacity and placidness that generally sit upon his features.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Would you expect to enjoy yourself with your usual placidness, and not to be ruffled, in an hurricane which every moment threatens to blow your house down?”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “Now anger is by nature at the farthest distance imaginable from complacency, and spleenishness from placidness, and animosity and turbulence from humanity and kindness.”

  Essays and Miscellanies

• “To expand the human face to its full perfection, it seems necessary that the mind should co-operate by placidness of content, or consciousness of superiority.”

  A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland

• “The placidness of his voice made it sound as though they had never engaged in their discussion.”

  Simon & Schuster: Almost a Whisper

• “Beneath the placidness Rostnikov sensed a seething anger.”

  A Cold Red Sunrise

• “Why was I not by to sooth my Friend to placidness -- but I unhappily had contributed to it.”

  Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 February 1779

• “No tongue can express, no mind can reach, the heavenly placidness and soul-satisfying delight which are intimated in these words.”

  Pneumatologia

• “To each other," he replied, and I could see he was enjoying Mrs. Bain's placidness and my apprehension of trouble ahead.”

  Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures

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