Calms [adjective]

Since many of us will be homebodies this season, here are some ways to keep cool, calm and collected in your own space.

We are redoubling our efforts to keep the beaches and local businesses open, and get to a sense of calmer waters, but July 4 weekend will look a bit different this year.

A few days later, he let me row through some baby rapids, telling me where to aim the boat, giving me calm instructions to adjust the trajectory a little left or a little right.

This is sort of a game but it’s mostly a way to calm yourself down since there’s not really any way to lose or compete.

Wholesome, positive –if not strange and mindless– content has become a balm to cure our anxiety, making it a great way of communication, a form of self-care that fills a void and provides a sense of calm that sheet masks and sourdough cannot.

This treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.

The expression of his features was calm and composed, and his eyes were raised to heaven with a look of hope and supplication.

That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire-lattices that defenced them.

She was putting her papers tidy again with calm fingers, while his own were almost cramped with the energy of suppressed desire.

The kites soared, and the boats rushed swiftly over the calm and glittering sea.