Placid used in a sentence

Placid in a sentence as an adjective

Hm, yeah, trees to make me feel more placid and less oppressed than concrete, you're right.

Compared with the deep, choppy waters of 2009 and 2010, the stock market is now a shallow, placid pool.

The common perception, crafted by the food industry, is a cow on a placid farm that lives to a nice old age.

Don't let nominal democracy convince you to be placid.

Well, do you want kids to understand their computing systems, or would you prefer they just be placid consumers?

Embarrassing and useless, but just enough to placate the placid and ignorant.

I would even argue that it's a stretch to call it medicine since it just masks the symptoms and makes a person placid enough to deal with.

San Francisco startups tend to have a more placid, nerdy, bike-rack-in-the-lobby atmosphere, although they can ultimately be just as cruel.

I'd love to work in a place like that - I feel very uncomfortable in an ordered environment where row upon row of offices is filled with a placid set of cubicles, all the same shape, color, and design.

I am sick of this false dichotomy that you can only have two opinions on modern democracy - either you are a raving critic who thinks it is all corrupt and ****, or you are a placid simpleton who thinks everything is fine.

Even the man who waited for volume of trading to return to normal and saw Wall Street become as placid as a produce market, and who then bought common stocks would see their value drop to a third or a fourth of the purchase price in the next 24 months.

I think it's been proven that you can do just about anything in the US and get away with it because the consumers/populace are too placid to do anything about it ... except a BJ from a jewish girl that will get you in serious trouble.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

Quote Examples using Placid

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining it its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. -From the opening paragraph of The Call of Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft

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