Both Uses of
placid
in
Childhood's End
- The world's now placid, featureless and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came.†
Chpt 15 *placid = calm and not easily excited
- Then the Suit's remaining children pursued their ancient paths once more, as corks floatting on a placid lake ride out the tiny ripples set in motion by a falling stone.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(placid) calm and not easily excited
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)