becalmed

The effect is of looking up at a sail in becalmed weather.

"Now, if you're sufficiently becalmed, perhaps you'll let me get back to work."

He had only stared off across the glassy becalmed water.

It was the becalmed middle of a Sunday afternoon.

I turned in the water to see my friend waving to me from the stern of the becalmed ship.

When it happened, they looked like the sails of a becalmed ship doing their best and failing.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

But now, fashion seems to be in a becalmed state of harmonic convergence.

As long as they do not spend, the German economy will remain becalmed.

"Done," he answered with a nod, his becalmed self once again.

The whole neighborhood has a becalmed, almost villagey air.

Once they were on the deck, she led him to the stern railing of the becalmed vessel.

The becalmed air felt dead in her lungs.

Eyes closed, it might have been asleep and dreaming, encased inside a becalmed sea.

The flow of the stream halted and backed up on itself until it became a becalmed creek.

One woman, her face blank, floats gracefully like a becalmed ballerina.

It is the becalmed sailing ship which fouls quickly.

Above him, the sails lay flat against becalmed seas.

Matters didn't change much as the race began over an almost becalmed Indian Ocean.

When the boats became becalmed, skippers searched the horizon for any sign of wind.

She awoke in the first muggy gloaming of the becalmed dawn.

Instruction would come, she assumed; she couldn't live the rest of her life so becalmed.

Or maybe it's only that after spending an hour in such a becalmed little town, the visitor seems more inclined to wonder than to sneer.

The ship of state, he seems to be saying, has entered the becalmed waters of a new war from which there is no exit.

There was something imposing about the two of them standing there, statuesque and becalmed.