Then, as if hoping to brush his fears-and hers-away, by calmly discussing it, "What did he look like?"
Some distant part of himself watched in amazement as he calmly discussed the issue.
Picard felt they shouldn't be discussing this so calmly, but he needed to understand the problem to form a solution, if there was one.
Warring nations do more harm to a world than those who calmly discuss how best to tend a shared garden.
And here they were calmly discussing it in council!
Now, after three change of government, people are calmly discussing the future.
This time, darkness, violence, desire have become matters to discuss calmly, and shown only in brief spasms.
They were calmly discussing the forthcoming sale of a commodity of some worth.
"I heard the two of you calmly discussing the fact that he had destroyed Krantin!"
Earlier that evening he had sat here with Cleopatra calmly discussing their future.