Gregg could feel Ellen's placid, dull acceptance, colored slightly with annoyance.

Her placid acceptance of his independence was almost unnerving.

From the moment she had arrived at the center she had been amazed at the staff's placid acceptance of the dull routine.

There was something disturbing about her, a placid acceptance he had never seen before.

Mr. Clinton's visit accentuates the West's placid acceptance of the conquest of that lovely land and its talented people.

Ambalasei did not have Enge's placid acceptance of life.

Stefan seemed to absorb this news with placid acceptance.

Thus it is impossible for us to determine whether any particular pronouncement of his reflects existential despair or placid acceptance.

In the body of the church exactly thirty-two people, most of them elderly women, were listening to him with an air of placid acceptance.

"It's just another way to express yourself in denim," she said with the placid acceptance of the absurd that all successful fashion executives employ.