Sentence examples for holy calm from inspiring English sources

But he differed from Balanchine, not to speak of the melodramatic MacMillan, in that he often interested himself in remote, mixed emotions: the melancholy love, the starlit spell, the holy calm.

Mark Twain, who viewed the unfinished structure after the war, wrote that the monument has the aspect of a factory chimney with the top broken off…you can see cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nibbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow.

has the aspect of a factory chimney with the top broken off…you can see cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nibbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow.

He defended his force when asked why drivers needed smiley masks and gum and holy water to calm down when approached by a patrolman.

Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Then wake every two hours for feeds Once in royal David's city, Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a mother laid her Baby, Her traumatised husband to her said: I'm off to the pub for a pint of mild, To wet the head of this little Child.

It is imbedded in continuity, in the calm repetition of holy script and a conservatism unswayed by raucous fashion.

"I can't tell if this is calm or exhaustion," Ms. Holy said.

This week they killed two judges, mortared the Kurdish parts of Kirkuk, a relatively calm city, and shook the Shia holy city of Karbala with a car bomb, killing three passers-by.

This existential unease makes the hypochondriac a modern version of the holy fool, the eternal child who cannot be calmed by the assurances with which others are pacified.

Thinking of this holy man to whom death brought no stillness and calm but a fretful treck over mountains, makes us wonder about the prospect of immediate serenity for anybody.

AFTER a long, hot summer of protests against Indian rule, an uneasy calm descended on the Kashmir valley for the holy month of Ramadan.