Sentence examples for achieve tranquillity from inspiring English sources

To mix metaphors, maybe part of the price one pays for being such a professionally angry man is that it becomes hard to achieve tranquillity when the stage lights go down and the greasepaint comes off..

They, like him, emphasized the need to accept the inevitable in human life, the need to dampen one's desires to achieve tranquillity in the face of the inevitable, and to identify with the world that makes acceptance and dampening of desires possible (Nussbaum, 1994).

Some predicted that the only way the government would achieve domestic tranquillity was by not doing very much.

Sure, it's a gentle, nonindustrial way to achieve health and tranquillity.

The peace and tranquillity you achieve here can't be found anywhere else".

It was only in his final decades - he lived on until 1980, working until almost the end - that he achieved something like tranquillity.

Traffic on Phoenix freeways can obliterate any zenlike state of tranquillity achieved on a hike, so on weekdays I try to avoid the peak commuting hours of 6 30 a.m. to 8 30 a.m. and 4 30 p.m. to 7 30 p.m.

Dispensing entirely with the usual history-by-numbers plod of the biopic, the film provides an episodic, time-lapse child's view of the Dalai Lama's spiritual development, each scene no longer than a minute, passing by like pages of a flicked storybook, the effect somehow not distracted but achieving a rapt tranquillity made possible, in part, by Mathison's minimalism.

Under Jeroboam II (783 741) in Israel and Uzziah (Azariah; 783 742) in Judah, both of whom had long reigns at the same time, the two kingdoms cooperated to achieve a period of prosperity, tranquillity, and imperial sway unequalled since Solomon's reign.

Malibu Beach Inn (22878 Pacific Coast Highway; 310-456-6444; www.malibunderwent.com) recently underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation to achieve its blend of chic and Zen tranquillity.

There is no comfort in this vision, but the tranquillity Zuckerman achieves as he tells the story is infectious, and that is a certain reward.