placid-faced

That afternoon the normally placid-faced P.esident Donald P. Vanderdamp strode to the helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House looking, as one reporter commented, "like he was ready to bite the head off a live chicken."

'Supreme Courtship' 2008

Seeing the 33-year-old, placid-faced Mrs. Zinterhoffer gliding between the dinner tables at the Neue Gallerie benefit and posing for Bill Cunningham in an Ungaro gown-all the while becoming an instrumental part of her family's cosmetics empire-seems to have flipped a switch in her fellow socialites 'heads.

Sexy Scions Sell Selves 2004

"The William Morris Agency [then] was filled with a lot of very short older men who didn't really like a smart, not-short girl who had opinions," said the placid-faced Ms. Goldsmith-Thomas, who was dressed in a white shirt and black jacket.

Mental Bloch 2003

He returned almost immediately, accompanied by a placid-faced mountain of male flesh, aged somewhere in his early twenties.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

"You talk like a boy," the placid-faced woman chided.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

Drummond's church, of placid-faced, saintly old Sandy MacQuhot, the epileptic.

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

A door opened noiselessly, and, before he knew of anyone's entrance, a placid-faced nurse stood by his bed and asked him how he was.

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

She proved to be a large, placid-faced woman with a countenance from which every human emotion had been eliminated until it was as expressionless as a bronze Buddha.

The Wall Between Sara Ware Bassett 1920

And stout, placid-faced men of fifty, with comfortable bank accounts and incipient twinges of gout, felt the unaccustomed dimming of the sight that presages tears, and boyish, carefree students, to whom the song was as much an everyday affair as D marks and unpaid bills, felt strange stirrings in their breasts, and with voices that stumbled strangely over the top notes sang louder and louder.

The Half-Back Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

All over the country you may see thousands and hundreds of thousands of calm, settled, placid-faced, middle-aged women.

Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers 1906