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 2010

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 2006

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 2006

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 2004

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 2003

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

Almost a Whisper Charlene Cross 1994

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

Almost a Whisper Charlene Cross 1994

Beneath the placidness Rostnikov sensed a seething anger.

A Cold Red Sunrise Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1988

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 1973

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

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967