1.   As a huge crowd gathered, many were struck by his apparent calm under the circumstances.

2.   At last, apparent calm.

3.   But the apparent calm that greeted the Italian soldiers who came ashore at this mercurial port town on the Adriatic this week appears very flimsy.

4.   But the picture of apparent calm was misleading.

5.   Despite his apparent calm, he always seems on the verge of dashing out of a room.

6.   He is reasonably handsome and still in love with his wife, but under his apparent calm you sense a fierce watchfulness and grinding tension.

7.   Apparent calm settled over a Kremlin beset by bickering and scheming ever since the president ducked out of sight with heart problems in early summer.

8.   But bombings in the capital that killed some two dozen people in three days this week belie the apparent calm of this fractured nation.

9.   Despite the apparent calm, authorities ordered schools throughout the city to close and asked parents to keep their children at home in case of further eruptions of violence.

10.   However, live images of the Japanese compound relayed by the television station in the Peruvian capital showed apparent calm inside and outside the building.