Beneath the surface calm, there's a lot going on.

For many English actors, it is an ingrained thing to suggest the private war beneath a surface calm.

I was still nervous but worked to affect a surface calm.

He sat quietly across from me, his features composed-but I could see there was tension under the surface calm.

The young woman seemed to see an indication that the surface calm was false.

So the director's surface calm wasn't just a surface calm?

Behind that surface calm, though, the private anguish of the trauma is only starting to set in.

Few could successfully permit such seductive play between surface calm and underlying violent tension.

He had everything he could do to maintain that surface calm.

If the nights are black, the days often exude an eerie surface calm.