1.   There was a worried look on her normally placid face.

2.   Asked again how the offense stalled, the normally placid Van Raaphorst became a little angry.

3.   After enraging normally placid Canadians with his comments, Harrington refused to back down.

4.   All across the region Friday, the specter of school violence seemed to be jangling nerves in normally placid communities.

5.   His demeanor is normally placid, but his eyes tend to betray an element of dementia.

6.   Ironically, however, within the normally placid, bipartisan National Governors Association, there is considerable disagreement about how far devolution should go.

7.   It was so grueling and the plane to the West Coast grew so chilly that the normally placid Bradley roamed the aisles cursing about another cold dinner.

8.   It will begin on Thursday and has already transformed this normally placid village into a buzzing hive of commerce.

9.   Normally placid architects thump their desks and talk about revenge and fighting back.

10.   So absurd was his decision that the normally placid Bledsoe threw down his helmet in disgust.