"I wish the new year will bring lasting peace, serenity and prosperity to all Cypriots," Mr Akinci is quoted as saying by the Cyprus Mail.
Lying in the hospital bed, Harry feels he has at last attained serenity, is 'at last at the still centre,' but this still centre is entirely artificial and medicinal 'the drug-induced peace inside his rib cage.' Nelson, meanwhile, has been inducting other drugs (cocaine, some crack) and running through $200,000 of Toyota money.
Her false serenity lasted until the funeral, where she sat beside her parents in the synagogue and greeted a seemingly endless line of mourners.
Through all the decades since Chaplin's arrival in Hollywood in the early years of motion pictures, he has persisted as a gigantic, incomparable figure.At the age of 54 he married Oona O'Neill, the daughter of Eugene O'Neill, and with her settled down into a period of serenity, which lasted until his death on Christmas Day 1977 at age 88.
Just the simple act of plugging in the lights and determining which ornaments to use gives me an aura of serenity that lasts for days, even if the tree has to be raised three feet above the ground so the cat won't eat the needles.
The serenity doesn't last long.
But this serenity [that had lasted] for almost 2,000 years was broken when the European imperialists arrived in the middle of 19th century.
The serenity I created with my nightly deep cleans lasted until Zelda began eating solid food.
It can't last, of course, but it's precisely because it's a fleeting glimpse of serenity that the Recordare is so shockingly moving.
Yet its nihilistic vision, untempered by Betty's last-ditch stab at serenity, proves, in retrospect, prophetic.
Mr. Gilmore chimed in at the last moment, a hard-earned serenity returning to his face.
