The neighborhood beauty spot is Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden and the adjacent park, which reproduce exactly the tranquil loveliness of the famous gardens of Suzhou in China.
It's not exactly a tranquil spot — you'll spend much of your time darting among Japanese bus tour groups, Thai schoolchildren on a field trip and camera-wielding visitors from around the world — but it is worth visiting because of the famed reclining Buddha.
Tranquillo doesn't exactly translate to tranquil, yet Vincenzo Nibali had promised to approach stage 20 with the calmness of a man whose race is already won.
The people who teach and research the discipline mocked by Thomas Carlyle, a 19th-century polemicist, as "the dismal science", not only failed to spot the precipice, many forecast exactly the opposite a tranquil stability they called the "great moderation".
The cumulative effect is one of preternatural clarity and an oddly tranquil tone — exactly the opposite of the gothic effects favored by latter-day Surrealists like David Lynch and Tim Burton.
At least my summers will be more acceptable now, if not exactly restored to those tranquil days when a dreamy July afternoon in the back garden was accompanied by the velvet tones of a John Arlott cricket commentary and the purring of somebody else's lawnmower.
Whoozie with Dramamine, I repair to my quarters on this first night aboard, and arrive in Kodiak on tranquil seas, exactly as forecast by my 'know-nothing' ladies and gentlemen of AMHS.
As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald wrote of Barrington in his 1899 book, The Savoy Opera, "His peculiar tranquil or impassive style has always exactly suited the characters allotted to him, and it would now be difficult to imagine a Savoy opera without him.
As with all of these weekly snippets of manga, it will be hard to know exactly what's going on story-wise from this issue, but it's an absolutely perfect, tranquil, wonderful read nonetheless.
