All his bluster had gone, and he seemed to have caught the contagion of preternatural calm.

The preternatural calm in the old man's voice stilled the trembling of her own.

Esher himself sat in the back of his bulletproof Caddy, watching the slaughter with a preternatural calm.

A hush fell on the bridge as the ship went deeper into the preternatural calm of the trough.

He stared down at Ramsey with preternatural calm.

Speaking with what participants remember as almost preternatural calm in that crisis atmosphere, he held forth for more than an hour.

The atmosphere of preternatural calm on his bridge filled Terapane with pride in his crew.

With an almost preternatural calm, Geordi clamped down on his emotions, turning himself into a human android.

His own febrile manner had gone, to be replaced by an almost preternatural calm.

The sea is converted into visions of isolation, preternatural calm, glory, agitation.