calmness

The wind failed and the sea returned to calmness.

"风停了,海面上恢了一片寂静。"

For all his seeming calmness, he was really very nervous.

尽管他表面上镇定,其实非常紧张。

The colonel’s calmness maddened Pluskat.

上校的镇静激怒了普拉斯凯特。

The author used a seemed calmness, impersonal and adiaphorous method to face the topic of the society and history of contemporary China.

荒诞的场面描写和幽默的语言风格是构成这种喜剧化色彩的手段，作家举重若轻，意味深长，发人深思。