Bottom Line Topping Rose is an affluent New Yorker's guilty pleasure — a calm oasis on the throbbing East End.
They remain in the calm oasis until the tide starts flowing back in, at which point they come up and get swept back into the bay.
It's refreshingly unglitzy, and its child-friendly atmosphere makes it a calm oasis away from the crowded bustle of the more popular museums.
And what could be more satisfying than transforming a neglected part of the planet into a calm oasis of beautiful green space?
With private terraces, a garden of palms and orange and lemon trees plus attentive service, it's a calm oasis in the middle of the city.
Ours is the Kedleston suite, a calm oasis in shades of taupe, with a super-kingsize pencil post bed, window seats and velvet chaise longue.
SHANGHAI — Over the past eight years, Gilles Boulianne and Brigitte Elie have spent most of their time turning a 70-year-old lane house in this city's former French Concession into a calm oasis from the nonstop rush outside their door.
Although the setting for CanCo Lofts, situated at 50 Dey Street just off the clogged traffic artery of Tonnelle Road, is highly urban, the building is designed to offer a calm oasis to its residents, the developer said.
7 p.m. 8) A Relaxing Dinner Nestle into a calm oasis at the wood-paneled Dining Room at the Berkeley Hotel (1200 East Cary Street, 804-225-5105), which selegantlegant dishes like prosciutto-wrapped rockfish with raspberry compote ($26) and sausage-stuffed roast quail with black-eyed peas ($24).
While their detractors would have you believe that games turn children into belching zombies, ready to axe the corner-shop manager to death for not stocking cornflakes, the GameCity Prize shows that video games can be relaxing, poignant and thoughtful; a leap out of reality into a calm oasis of pixels and just the thing to inspire you after sniffing somebody's armpits for an hour on a packed Tube.
It displaces the 53,000 cars that crawled through the area daily with a strangely calm oasis where 356,000 people traipse beneath flashing billboards and jumbotrons.
