Even President Bush, the author of the most muscular national security strategy in memory, has sounded remarkably placid.

Except for long lines for rationed gasoline, the surface of everyday life in Belgrade seemed remarkably placid.

The stranger was a Hindu, of a remarkably placid countenance.

She was a remarkably placid girl, Gerd thought, a schemer or a saint.

The history of Vhiliinyar according to Grandam had been remarkably placid for the most part.

His voice was remarkably placid.

The 1950's market was remarkably placid.

The exchange came in a race that has until now been remarkably placid.

"No one gets in," one of the cops said in a remarkably placid voice.

The site of the long siege presented a remarkably placid scene today.