placid

Its premise—the first, disastrous encounter between a family of placid Neanderthals and a ruthless “new people,” Homo sapiens—is simple, though its execution is anything but.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

She holds up a sepia photograph in a silver embossed frame: the clairvoyant Isabel Barros Moreira, her mother’s mother, her face placid, with dark hair and dark eyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

Steve Sosnick, the chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, writes that the president’s comments “challenged investors’ perceptions about a speedy end to hostilities and a fundamental tenet of U.S. equities’ placid response to the crisis.”

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

"The first one by Cití Ní Ghallchóir is so sweet but still so sad and placid... she just seemed really exhausted," she said, noting that the other two felt "disgusting, painful and exaggerated."

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Beside the house, shading it in summer, stood three mulberry trees, the fledged leaves that would later be broad and placid as the palms of hands streaming flatly undulant upon the driving air.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner