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• r  in a quiet and tranquil manner
  the sea now shimmered placidly before our eyes
• r  in a placid and good-natured manner
  I put the questions, and she answered them placidly

• If somebody screwed up, the star took it placidly, saying over and over, "This is what rehearsals are for.
• Knapp, not reelected, was functioning placidly last autumn as Dean of the College of Home Economics at Syracuse University when, abruptly, she was accused by an erstwhile .
• A cult movie director and a cow wait placidly on a busy Los Angeles street corner on a sunny autumn day.

News & Articles

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• When Peter Rabbit goes bad
  When Peter first made his appearance on area lawns, not many of us took notice. The thrill of a little wildlife in the yard was exciting and everybody loved the dewy-eyed innocence of a bunny placidly nosing about.
  June 24, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera

Quotes

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• Max Ehrmann in Digital Journalist
  Max Ehrmann wrote the poem "Desiderata" in 1927, the first line of which could have been the subtitle to a photographer's manual: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence."
• Zvi Mazel in Sydney Morning Herald
  My wife and I stood there and began to tremble,Mazel explained to the website Ynet. "There was the terrorist, wearing perfect make-up and sailing placidly along the rivers of blood of my brothers and the families that were murdered."
• Turnbull in Journal and Courier
  Gliese 581 "appears to be a nice, quiet older star that orbits placidly within the disk of the galaxy," says astronomer Margaret Turnbull of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.