sedateness

She also frequently fixes her camera on characters as they impassively recount stories of past traumas, such as an abortion and an apostasy; the sedateness of her shots mirrors the dispassion of their accounts.

Bussum, for all its leafy sedateness, had a lively cultural scene.

He glanced at the dead face one more time, and then with widowed sedateness he opened the door that led out into the hospital corridor.

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?”

Dylan wasn’t — either out of misplaced sedateness or, less charitably, because he didn’t realize how ridiculous it was.