placidness
Example Sentences
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At 16, Hamer left home, and over the course of the next 18 months, walked across Britain, honing the skills that make him a superlative mole catcher — invisibility and placidness.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2019
The relative placidness of inbounds skiing is no match for the greater adventure of untamed terrain.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2012
Indeed, their very placidness was almost cold, animal in its indifference.
From The Mantooth by Christopher Leadem
Would you expect to enjoy yourself with your usual placidness, and not to be ruffled, in an hurricane which every moment threatens to blow your house down?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson
A month, at least, is necessary, to bring my features to such a placidness with him, as to allow him to smile in my face.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
