Sentence examples for attained serenity from inspiring English sources

Lying in the hospital bed, Harry feels he has at last attained serenity, is 'at last at the still centre,' but this still centre is entirely artificial and medicinal 'the drug-induced peace inside his rib cage.' Nelson, meanwhile, has been inducting other drugs (cocaine, some crack) and running through $200,000 of Toyota money.

For my part, at 64, I haven't attained serenity (another stereotype of older people), but I am more able to savor life — and if offered the chance to return to my 14-year-old self, I'd run screaming the other way.

The delirious "Starry Night" and the hellish "Night Café" attain serenity in their realization, cruising at an altitude of talent beyond imagining.

The latter certainly served to distil the atmosphere so that Bach's Sarabande from the French Suite No 5 in G attained an ineffable serenity.

Nectoux writes, "In old age he attained a kind of serenity, without losing any of his remarkable spiritual vitality, but rather removed from the sensualism and the passion of the works he wrote between 1875 and 1895".

You see the muscles and nerves of an amazing style in repose, which is nothing like the soaring serenity that Pollock attained elsewhere.

I would vacation there and attain a new serenity, smooth and translucent, in perfect counterpoint to natural fabrics and unbleached cardboard.

He runs the gamut of more than half believing in Seeing Stones and Celtic prophets, to a decision to give up hunting to attain a Buddhist serenity, and wonders, as well, if he is becoming a homosexual.

The record Vernon made as Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago, attained cult status thanks to the piquancy and serenity of its blanched musings on heartbreak.

The serenity of marathon reading is not easily attained in any household equipped with telephones, video screens, e-mail-bearing computers, pets, people, professional responsibilities or any combination thereof.

Urban mosques should be provided with an acceptable thermal comfort for worshippers to feel comfortable and relaxed to attain a feeling of tranquility, peace and serenity.