He was a fat little toad, ugly as could be, and with a placid, unbreakable calm.

Their movements were deliberate and seemed to have a placid, unhurried calm about them.

He had never met the Kai Opaka in the flesh- though she seemed real enough now, standing with placid calm in the substation's command center- but had seen photos and tapes of her, millennia ago back on DS9.

This was too much; too soon; she didn't want to feel like this, didn't want the placid calm of her life disrupted by this man and the emotions he aroused within her.

In fact, Muirfield's usually rigorous par 71 took an unmerciful beating from the field of 156, particularly by players who were fortunate to tee off in the placid calm of the morning.

Erik Stonebiter turned away, staring across the lake, the water now placid and mirror calm after the brief quake.

Only Mrs Cres swell had accepted the situation with placid calm, apparently doing nothing about it, merely waiting to see what would happen.

The lake churned and boiled anew for a brief instant, then settled back, the waters swirling once again with placid calm.

The sound of the river, the calling of the birds and animals in the woods, and the placid calm of the whole landscape began to lull them.

Emotion rarely marred the surface of Astinus's cold voice, but now anger struck the placid calm of his soul like a rock hurled into still water.