Their fixation on their own performances was one possible explanation for the placidity of the debate, at least until the last 10 minutes or so.
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"There is a kind of intelligent placidity about the place, " said Rogers, emeritus professor of history at Florida State University.
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Her duet with James Fayette, an ideal partner for an inexperienced dancer, had a tinge of placidity at first but also moments of fearless spontaneity.
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Sidney Cowell add that silence in the form of soft slow-moving concordant tones widely spaced in the strings move through the whole piece with uninterrupted placidity.
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Using a mixture of real and faked expressions, he ended up doing the pictures for placidity, depression, happiness, disgust, indignation, resignation and surprise.
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Russian officials have greeted most of the Mir's recent misfortunes with apparent placidity, insisting that the two Russians and one American aboard were not in danger.
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"There was a certain quaintness about the place, a staidness, placidity and degree of predictability that you just wouldn't get in Jamaica ."
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Its large and menacing appearance, combined with its relative placidity, has made the sand tiger shark among the most popular shark species to be displayed in public aquaria.
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The film paints a portrait of Alex ( McDowell ), a violent, homicidal thug who is sadistically brainwashed into placidity by the state, and has no sympathetic characters.
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Since I first saw this production in Boston in January, Van Dyck has become almost too much Hedda's stooge, in her blond, empty-faced placidity.
