Long ago, I curled beneath the radiance of a friend's squat, plastic contraption with the focus of a grad student cramming for a midterm and the tranquility of a lazing cat, and since then nothing certainly not my bedroom's bare overhead energy-saving bulb or the office's draining florescent will do.
Imagine a moment in your own life when you felt a sense of tranquility, of the calm that you can experience when looking out at smooth, still, glassy water in a pond.
RITZ-CARLTON BALI Denpasar, Indonesia Perched on a cliff overlooking the Indian Ocean, this dual-level pool provides the tranquility of a Buddhist retreat.
The tranquility of a countryside walk might broken by the regular metallic twang that follows the wearer around.
Some songs cross the line into blandness, but with Ms. Monte's limpid, melting voice, it's just as easy to bask in the sensual tranquility of a song like "Bem Aqui" ("Good Here").
When her ability to transition seamlessly from the intensity of the court to the tranquility of a domestic life was met with skepticism, Li argued that her success could translate.
In 1898, explorer Charles Bernacchi of the Southern Cross expedition wrote that the Antarctic "calls to mind the eternal tranquility of a planet, which has ceased to exist".
Vibes-wise, it's somewhere between the comic nihilism of Heads of the Valleys and the washed-out tranquility of a Beatrix Potter illustration.
The tranquility of a nice little neighborhood in Edmonton was sliced apart by the sounds of thrash metal as a rented U-Haul van ripped around the corner, stopping in front of a small, quaint house with two trees.
In chapter seven, Henry notes the inexplicable tranquility of nature, "a woman with a deep aversion to tragedy", even as the battle rages on.
