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  • n  a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling
  • n  a disposition free from stress or emotion

  • In their tame placidity they bear no relation to the fearsome creatures in the Bible and the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke and Wallace Stevens.
  • She has been sent as a probe from the gigantic spaceship on which all humans were evacuated 700 years before, and where their descendants live in pampered placidity.
  • She was the star of the show, making people grin indeed, sometimes erupt with laughter her own face switching between that studied placidity that is her trademark and a .

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