A strange calm descended on her, a blanket of serenity.

Inwardly, I was reeling with outrage, but the numbing calm of shock had descended on me.

A relative calm descended on the quadrant.

But at midday, an eerie calm descended on a city that normally screams with noise and traffic.

This being Sunday, the commercial fishermen were taking a day off, and a peaceful calm descended on the shoreline.

A calm had descended over him.

A great calm, like that of the last moment before the cast from a racing chaser's sprit, descended upon him.

An eerie calm had descended upon them.

An uneasy calm descended on the house in Bedford.

LEAD: A strange calm descended on the campaign trail last week.