(1) The Ss became extremely placid and tame or were profoundly depressed in their overall behavior most of the time.
(2) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
(3) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
(4) There are vast areas in which my peaceful indifference to what Amazon is and does can only be surpassed by Amazon’s presumably equally placid indifference to what I say and do.
(5) "A lot of teens in the early noughties were taking ketamine, which was a very placid, down drug that kept you in your own zone.
(6) As our car crawls through central London, from WPP's Mayfair head office to Millbank, where Sorrell is to sit on a panel, the dog sits placidly in the back, lolling its head in the sun.
(7) One personality was irritable and hostile, the other placid; in each case, a major seizure preceded the shift from the former to the latter.
(8) Even Angela Merkel of Germany, that placid sheet anchor of European stability, faces grassroots challenges from left and right.
(9) Read today's Rumour Mill here 9.23am BST Germany's Per Mertesacker is a pretty placid guy off the pitch, so when he gets shirty with a journalist you know he's had a long day.
(10) Do we just placidly accept their ideologically driven desire to drive back the frontiers of the state, to cut and privatise?
(11) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
(12) Were this just the froth of diehard Brexiteers at an otherwise placid time, we’d move on faster than you could say “ Bill Cash” .
(13) They need to get it done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marie Claire Placide, a dress shop owner and fashion designer, in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
(14) Aisikaier's life at the park is placid, if not slightly purgatorial.
(15) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
(16) Danny Rynne, a scaffolder from Enfield, described Mahmoud as “lovely” and “placid”.
(17) After suffering a carbon monoxide intoxication, a thirty-nine-year-old patient presented a marked behavioral change, with a severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia, extreme placidity, bulimia, and hypersexuality.
(18) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
(19) By way of contrast to events earlier in the tour, where large crowds have turned out, the duke and duchess were greeted sedately by the islanders who brought out picnic chairs and sat placidly waiting on the grass verges at the side of the road leading from the airport to the tiny capital, Charlottetown.
(20) The great majority of the infants were very placid.
Tranquil
Definition:
(a.) Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pharmacological examination showed that the new compounds are deprived of the hypnotic activity characteristic for 3,3'-spirobi-5-methyltetrahydrofuranone-2 (2) and behaved in most tests as tranquillizers.
(2) The magnitude of enzyme activation by DZM and CDP appear to correlate with their relative potency of tranquilizing effect.
(3) The recognition that all minor tranquillizers carry the risk of dependence has had a significant impact in their prescription over the years.
(4) Contrary to other studies, central nervous system stimulants are not the most widely prescribed psychoactive drugs in childhood and adolescence, but rather, minor tranquilizers, sedatives and hypnotics are the most widely prescribed psychoactive drugs.
(5) It is important to maintain a perspective of dependence on minor tranquillizers, particularly as attitudes are in danger of being distorted by excessive media attention.
(6) Therefore it is not surprising that drugs - notably the barbiturates and more recently the benzodiazepines (tranquilizers) - have been prescribed to give to the brain that peace of mind that it seeks.
(7) The use of major tranquilizers also decreased significantly (-23%) on Gotland.
(8) The only individual factor independently associated with use of minor tranquilizers was mental health status.
(9) In the rural tranquillity of Jamaica, people routinely reach the high 90s and a great many make 100.
(10) The authors propose a differential approach to the treatment of the identified disorders including the use of tranquilizers, antidepressants, neuroleptics and nootropic drugs, as well as methods of rational psychotherapy.
(11) To determine the effect of relaxation training on the frequency of intake of pro re nata medication for relief of tension and to compare the difference between live and taped instructions of this training 60 patients on PRN minor tranquilizers and sedatives in one nursing unit were studied.
(12) LH may be decreased subsequent to treatment with oral contraceptives or phenothiazine tranquilizers and in a few other conditions.
(13) When relating the results to comparable research on the effects of alcohol, tranquilizers and stimulants, it is concluded that with Neoston in the relatively high dosage as used here, no real detrimental effects on traffic safety are to be expected.
(14) A good agreement was established between the anxiolytic (tranquilizing) effect of phenazepam after administration to rats per os and the rate of its supply to the systemic blood flow.
(15) They made the hypothesis that if a tranquillizing drug were administered the operative level of neuroticism would be decreased, and as a consequence the level of susceptibility of neurotic extraverts would be raised, and that of neurotic introverts lowered.
(16) Beta-blockers reduced HR increases due to mental stress, whereas the minor tranquilizer reduced skin conductance level throughout the whole trial.
(17) In our hands it has been used to reverse the adverse central effects of tranquilizers, antihistamines and belladonna alkaloids.
(18) The modulators are the wellknown drugs: diazepam which is a facilitator of some of the GABA receptors, and used clinically for its tranquilizing, anxiolytic, sedative-hypnotic and anti-convulsant properties; sodium valproate which is known to enhance the GABA synapse function, and used clinically for its anti-convulsant property; haloperidol which is a dopaminergic receptor (D2) blocker, and clinically used for its anti-psychotic property; cyproheptadine which is both anti-histaminic and anti-serotonergic (blocks 5-HT2 receptor), used clinically for its antihistaminic and other beneficial properties; and hydrocortisone which is the stress-resisting glucocorticoid having direct effects on both brain and body cells, used clinically for the wide-ranging glucocorticoid therapeutic effects.
(19) An analysis has been made of individual purchases of hypnotics, sedatives and minor tranquilizers made during 1973 by patients who had bought such drugs either only once (group S, n= 417) or regularly (group R, n=76) during a 16-month period five years earlier from pharmacies in the town of Ostersund, county of Jmtland, Sweden.
(20) Increased risk for glioma was associated with rural residence, history of a positive tuberculosis skin test and consumption of pork products; increased meningioma risk was associated with a positive reaction to a tuberculosis skin test, previous stroke, use of tranquillizers and a vegetarian life-style in childhood.