Howard Jacobson

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.

British Novelist

Alan W. Livingston

My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.

American Businessman

Ellen Burstyn

All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

American Actress

Josh Hamilton

The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.

American Actor

Lytton Strachey

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

English Critic

Dawn Powell

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

American Writer

H. P. Lovecraft

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.

American Novelist

Eddie Rickenbacker

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.

American Aviator

Patti Page

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

American Musician

Juan Guaido

Venezuelan Politician

It can describe someone who stays calm and doesn't respond to provocation.

Non-Reactiveness

Implies emotional control and often seen as a positive trait.

Emotional Stability

Can sometimes be mistaken for lack of interest or enthusiasm.

Mistaken for Indifference

Refers to natural water bodies that mirror a calm atmosphere.

Natural Serenity

Connotes safety for activities like swimming or boating.

Safe for Activities

A placid lake or river often indicates good weather conditions.

Indicator of Weather

Used to describe subtle signs of happiness or satisfaction.

Subtle Contentment

A placid expression might be wrongly viewed as unemotional.

Misread as Unemotional

Reflects acceptance without much fanfare or drama.

Gentle Acceptance

 It tends to be why you see more white rhinos in safari parks much less likely to charge at cars. The white rhino and the great one horned rhino are a lot more kind of laidback placid species, whereas the black rhino is really feisty, you know, charge a lot more.

Do Rhinos Eat People? PIPE...

 for being slow-moving and placid creatures. When they do strike, they hold onto their rodent prey while the venom takes effect, then quickly swallow it down. At this point, you may be worrying about our guide— but never fear,

Watch this if you're...

 impassive, sluggish, lethargic, placid, calm, mellow, laid-back and, well, slothful! I am relaxed and tranquil, and I like to live in peace. But I am not lazy.' Then the sloth yawned and said, 'That's just how I am.

A librarian's case...

 For a time that I find to be the most placid and uneventful hour of the day, four in the morning sure gets an awful lot of bad press -- across a lot of different media from a lot of big names.

The 4 a.m. mystery PIPE...

 this little chunk of limestone plays host to hundreds of sea snakes it's placid right now but don't be fooled these snakes have come ashore to breed and tonight the competition on this

Eagle vs. Sea Snake PIPE...

 minky whales make their way into these placid waters in summer this is the most abundant whale in the southern ocean minkies are one of the smallest of all

Magnificent Whale...

 And it can attract bulls from far and wide. Normally placid males try to get close to a female in oestrus. And that can cause chaos.

Elephant Twins Escape...

 minky whales make their way into these placid waters in summer this is the most abundant whale in the southern ocean

The Blue Planet...

 minke whales make their way into these placid waters in summer this is the most abundant whale in the southern ocean

Whales And Seals Devour...

 minky whales make their way into these placid waters in summer

Placid