A half-hour later we were gliding over a salt pond's tranquil surface when a tangerine-colored moon rose up out of the Atlantic.
The dot turns into a line, which becomes a tightrope, a boulevard, the perch for an avian assembly or the tranquil surface of the lake.
I visited the pond in early May, but I could see that the tranquil surface would allow a gentle spin.
But all around, researchers were working feverishly to find out whether the tranquil surface was masking a major coastal threat.
That video, like some sad northern iteration of The Ring, is an unrestrained glimpse into the madness that dwells just below the tranquil surface of any coat check line.
Bloodshed seems to lurk beneath the house's tranquil surface.
Most of their citizens are comfortably off and have yet to voice dissent on any scale, but unease stirs below the tranquil surface.In short, the scorecard for the Arab spring so far looks overwhelmingly negative.
On the surface Laura led a tranquil, exemplary life: straight-A student, faithful girlfriend to the quarterback of the high school football team, Meals on Wheels volunteer, and so on.
You hover over a tranquil lake until a locomotive splashes across its surface directly at you, only to bust into a thousand birds at the moment of impact.
It is a tranquil place, where in late summer frogs loll in the green algae on the surface, and overhead the leaves of the birches rustle in the wind.
A tranquil suicide he was smiling, and the bees flew, forming a crown that slowly circled over the yellow surface.
