The overall tone of the collection, despite the general grimness of the panorama, is gentle and serene.
The gentle and serene Ave Verum Corpus was written for Anton Stoll, choirmaster in the town of Baden, where Mozart's wife, Constanze, often visited the spa.
And we had been friends first, which meant the passion, when it came, was gentle and serene, so different from the sharp-clawed passion of my past.
On the contrary, the atmosphere is serene and gentle and, as its name suggests, hopeful.
Knievel's wife, a very pretty, serene, and gentle woman named Linda, and their three children — Kelly, ten; Robbie, nine; and Tracy, seven — were eating quietly while Knievel reminisced, gave opinions, asked questions, and joked.
"She is more gentle, more understanding and more serene" says Prapat Chongsanguan of the Puea Thai economic working group.
The three songs featured across the two releases were not only equally striking, they were striking in different ways: The Spangle Maker featured a minimal, tense arrangement that suddenly exploded into a concluding, crashing swoon, while Pepper-Tree was one of their gentlest tracks to date, a serene and exquisite lope that could only be described as sunlight through curtains.
"His look was as peaceful and pleasant as when in health; and upon his wasting features there rested the serene and sweet expression of gentle goodness, breaking, for the moment, into a smile, as, on being addressed, he roused to answer, and then sank again into his dreamless sleep".
The duo offers a sometimes silent, and often serene, series of skits that are gentle, yet occasionally disturbing.
In Castiglione's gentle gaze and half smile, civilization dancing at the serene corners of the eyes, I was sure that I was already seeing the face of the philosopher I was on my way to visit.
