Vertaling van placid
untroubled
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clear
fine
peaceful
placid
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quiet
smooth
still
tranquil
unruffled {bn.}
quiet
smooth
still
tranquil
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even-tempered
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The owner replied to his questions with a placid indifference.
The owner replied to his questions with a placid indifference.
Now that he's retired, Yves can look forward to a contented and placid life.
Now that he's retired, Yves can look forward to a contented and placid life.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. 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.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. 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.