Alfred, she says, has lost his tranquillity over the Zinbanti thing.
The plan is to shoot about two hundred deer with tranquillizing pellets, capture them while they are tranquil, and remove them to the mainland, where they will be released in the woods, lose their tranquillity, regain their suspicion, and then be shot in the normal manner by licensed hunters with real bullets.
Passages of strangled rage are interwoven with quieter moments suggesting lost days of domestic tranquillity: Ms. Chipaumire gently crouched and balancing a large gourd on her head, or softly reciting a list of remembered pleasures.
Instead we are shown a sympathetic figure with a remarkably palpable presence, flinging back her head as though lost in ecstasy – or, perhaps, tranquillity.
After years of getting lost between the hyperkinesis of New York City and the tranquillity of New England, the Hudson Valley seems to have finally arrived.
Otherworldly detachment is difficult in the circumstances, and it was not until we got lost on the slopes of Mount Namsan that I found the tranquillity I had hoped for.
The evocative Flight Music joins melodic and rhythmic ideas without losing its sense of tranquillity, Tales of the Old Country has a simmering, Nino Rota-like lilt, and Jurd's huge promise as a trumpet improviser is showcased in a series of short duets – long-toned and graceful with the cello, free-jazzy with the piano, vivaciously dancing with the drums.
Despite the beauty and tranquillity of the place — trees, horses, a pond — she felt restless: life in the West had lost its allure.
The bridge also appears to be losing support among environmentalists, sceptical of Boris Johnson's "stunning oasis of tranquillity in the heart of our city".
The New York Times recently quoted the author's friend Hope Proper as remembering that, "Erica used to say: 'If only there would be still water, peace of mind, a day when nothing happens, nobody loses a job or gets sick.'" No stage of her life, it seems reasonable to say, has been cursed by tranquillity.
