sedateness

There had been a sedateness about the way the enemy ship fell.

He had always hated the sedateness of these gardens, but now that they were ruined he found them a comfort.

The two pointers trotted along with a sedateness that surprised Farrell, who had never seen a professional bird dog at work.

Museums had a reputation for sedateness.

He behaved with great sedateness.

Still is the dean of black composers, and figuratively speaking, his music bears the academic's dignity and sedateness.

With a glad exclamation, which coming through her habitual sedateness showed how much she loved the young girl, Sister Ruth started to her feet.

He said he was "animated" by the freedom of the American writers in contrast to the sedateness of English fiction.

He knows his Northern California turf, from its near-religious faith in the Internet to its lock-step sedateness.

Under Louis XVI whimsy faded and sedateness reigned.

Paradoxically, the seeming sedateness of the waltz, which harkens back to a quainter time, obscures its tempestuous history as it swept across 19th-century Europe.

An exception to the sedateness is the portrait of Roy Neuberger, a Wall Street tycoon and major patron of the arts.

He walked apart and did not condescend to idle chatter with his companions, but, as it were, tried to show everyone, even the fog, his sedateness and discretion.

ODDLY, Henry Moore claimed to have been influenced by this art, and his sculpture is the epitome of rationality and sedateness.

No longer puppies, vaguely proud of the sedateness of maturity, they strove to be proud and sedate while all their impulse was to rush together in a frantic ecstasy.

A hurriedly donned black robe billowed about him when at last he arrived, but it was with impressive sedateness and dignity that he asked, "Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached your verdicts?"

The distillation of the Whitney's new sedateness is "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950," the first half of a millennial survey scheduled to occupy the entire museum for the next eight months.

She liked it for its peace, its sedateness, except, of course, on the days its Hippie Market turned it into a riot of colour and bustle, attracting holiday-makers from all over the island.

Gaily satirical and personal--inclusively so--it might better have been left unwritten, for it would seem to have given needless offense to a number of goodly people, whose chief sin was the sedateness of years.

When someone is using a teapot to pour tea for the others, he should hold the teapot with his right hand and press the teapot lid with another hand to show his honour and sedateness.

It is the only work that is dated (1957), but that is no great help, for it is impossible to tell whether the relative sedateness represents some kind of catharsis or the calm before an Expressionist storm.

There were hoedowns as choreographed by Michael Kidd in the 1954 film musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and as danced, with charming sedateness, by Eleanor Roosevelt with young soldiers.

But for true sedateness, you had to tune to PBS, which, despite a technical glitch or two, went about its business with a minimum of graphics and a maximum of sober assessments of matters mundane and cosmic.

And I have to say, sir," she went on, all sedateness vanishing from her tone, "if they don't put me in the record books for the galaxy's longest naked spaceflight without a ship, you can bet somebody's going to get an earful.

Too, there seemed something meaningful, something rich and almost symbolic, perhaps even defiant, about dancing here, in this place where I worked, with its whispers, its sedateness, its cerebral pretensions, to dance here, in this place, as a woman.