It is by the Thai writer-director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a man who is masterful at conjuring up serenely odd movie landscapes.
Three of Great Britain's medal hopes moved serenely through their heats on the opening day of action in the Olympic Stadium, with even their relatively straightforward progression provoking a wild response.
There are worse places to be watching cricket in the spring than Worcester where every four years, as a traditional prelude to another Ashes summer, the cathedral stood sombre sentinel as Don flowed as serenely as does the Severn.
But America will proceed serenely to production of almost 11m barrels of oil a day in 2014, surpassing Saudi Arabia and rivalling Russia.While pressure to lift the ban on American oil exports intensifies, most American liquefied-natural-gas projects many designed to ship burgeoning shale-gas supplies to Asia will be awaiting approval.
Yet while Mr Libeskind, you feel, treats the regularities of more conventional architecture as almost a form of wickedness a denial of life's horrors and complexities Ms Hadid treats them more serenely as uncalled-for limitations on the shapes buildings are now free to adopt.
Mr Garcia resigned and Mr Blatter sailed serenely on, reneging on a commitment not to stand for election again.
"We're seeing a classic form of nuclear coercion," says Ashley Tellis, a defence expert at RAND, a think-tank in California.In this section Flagging support Trying their luck Ten years on Militant tendencies Indonesia's second chance ReprintsFor the moment, India is acting serenely uncoerced.
ON HIS visit to America this week China's vice-president, Xi Jinping, serenely played the role his aides had scripted for him as the country's leader-in-waiting, charming his hosts but revealing little (see Lexington).
Yet they sacked only one, in Pennsylvania, where a uniquely bungling incumbent, Tom Corbett, lost to Tom Wolf, a serenely smiling local businessman.
But he remained serenely above the fray, while Mr Cheney grappled with the details of the transition, a process that involves putting together a cabinet, selecting hundreds of high-level appointees, reviewing the budget, and transforming vague campaign pledges into detailed policy".Saturday Night Live" has Mr Bush complaining that "Dick Cheney is a demanding boss".
He was on feisty form on the Marr show and beamed serenely as Yvette Cooper of Labour and Nigel Farage of UKIP harangued him from either side in the programme's final minutes (later tweeting a photo of the moment with the caption "Happy in the centre ground").
