But life within the whitewashed walls of their detached house in Saltdean was far from serene.
What we could reasonably say is Serena, on court, was far from serene.
Society might apply it to good or evil ends.As a plant physiologist, he was also aware that the life of plants was far from serene.
Glamorgan, keeping half an eye on the latest bulletins from Headingley, barely clung on to their wafer-thin prospects of sneaking the third promotion slot after a far from serene day at The Riverside.
However, this place was far from serene as it was full of lions and tigers, many of whom didn't seem too pleased to see him.
THE recent fights, attacks on lifeguards and defecation in and around Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool are a reminder that far from being serene oases, public swimming pools are petri dishes teeming with mild savagery.
He arrived at Cromwell Towers on Locust Hill Avenue, far from the serene, almost genteel neighborhood surrounding Lincoln, at 4 p.m. one Monday in time to catch Shelly Horne between her daytime and nighttime jobs.
His conclusion, surprisingly, is that late style, far from being the serene product of accumulated wisdom and insight, is sometimes cranky and petulant and frequently displays "intransigence, difficulty and unresolved contradiction," even an impatience with "coherent sense".
But far from being a serene backdrop to peaceful village life, the Tian Shan (Mandarin for "celestial mountains") in this part of Kyrgyzstan are at the centre of one of the region's most ambitious and controversial mining projects and a long-running and increasingly tense conflict with communities nearby.
Not much of Arnold's verse will stand the test of his own criteria; far from being classically poised, impersonal, serene, and grand, it is often intimate, personal, full of romantic regret, sentimental pessimism, and nostalgia.
Hosted by the Conservative MP Hugh Fraser, Caroline was chauffeured to and from Sotheby's in an atmosphere of safe, serene and calm security far from the madding turbulence of America where she had lost her father and her uncle to assassination.
