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As the relatively calm and accepting response to the latest wave of high-profile government measures has demonstrated, Americans are not going to be panicked or unnerved by a more detailed disclosure of the nature of a terrorism threat.
The dive boat had been there in the morning and the crew said the water had been crystal clear and calm.
"The BBC has always insisted on using professional meteorologists from the Met Office," he assures me, in that calm, avuncular voice that has told us of so many showers, downpours and bright spells to come.
In both this impression grew into that contemplative calm in which all questions of beauty, truth and goodness are best considered.
Being there is to marvel at the professional calm that can play out of trouble and hit a barely visible green when the tournament is riding on every stroke, or come from behind like Gustavo Kuerten on Tuesday when Alex Corretja was a set up and serving for the match.
“He gets really cool, very calm.
But it is also possible that his calm maturity will seem Presidential, particularly if he somehow manages to combine it with a touch of McCain, the exhilaration of candid, inconvenient positions on the issues of the day—and, no small irony, he will need a touch of Kennedy as well.
But that calm seems to be fading now.
Throughout the second half, Delhomme remained calm, reminding himself not to play outside his capabilities.
I mean, it's like we have to calm him down.
When Torvald needed time off to go to Italy to calm his nerves and save his health, she illegally borrowed money to fund the trip.
Not for Wolff the blustering self-aggrandisement of his one-time literary heroes, just a calm and rather melancholy reckoning of how this particular young man forged, in both senses, his identity as a writer.
No traffic anywhere, but we sit on red, failing to experience any calm arising out of the new integrated transport policy.
Going up against Cohen was a little lefty with the body of a twig and the hands of a pickpocket, and a calm that followed him like a shadow.
She also felt proud of being able to keep calm and make rational decisions at the time, while everybody else seemed to lose his head.