placidity

The other is elitism, a charge that clearly grates on him and unnerves his wife, who has a great deal that would be attractive in a first lady (intelligence, accomplishment, beauty) but lacks placidity, which is, actually, necessary.

While McCain Watches 2008

[She has risen and stands rubbing her arm and recovering her placidity, which is considerable.]

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

[She has risen and stands rubbing her arm and recovering her placidity, which is considerable.]

Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

[She has risen and stands rubbing her arm and recovering her placidity, which is considerable.]

Plays : Fifth Series John Galsworthy 1900

[She has risen and stands rubbing her arm and recovering her placidity, which is considerable.]

Windows John Galsworthy 1900

Vladimir Beregovoy wonders whether modern show and pet breeders who favor "placidity" would breed from what he calls "Houdinis " like my Kazakh female Ataika left, who routinely escapes from 8- foot fenced enclosures though no bigger than a whippet.

Cloned Dog and Afghan Intelligence 2005

Arrived at this decision, she had telephoned to her own home as to the uncertainty in regard to her movements, and thereafter had awaited the issue of events with that simple placidity which is the boon sometimes granted by much experience of the world.

Making People Happy Thompson Buchanan 1907

Such things were spoken of quite openly, as though they were quite natural, with that placidity which is one of the great features of the town, the inhabitants of which are able to maintain it in the face of suffering and death.

Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905

Gradually, however, the talking became more infrequent, the cheerfulness passed into a kind of placidity; and without any particular crisis or sign of the end,

Robert Browning 1905

The limbs grew stiff and rigid -- the features smoothed into that mysteriously wise placidity which is so often seen in the faces of the dead, -- the closed eyelids looked purple and livid as though bruised ... there was not a breath, not a tremor, to offer any outward suggestion of returning animation, -- and when, after some little time, Heliobas bent down and listened, there was no pulsation of the heart ... it had ceased to beat!

Ardath Marie Corelli 1889