Sentence examples for peaceful corner from inspiring English sources

Devoid of the bars, marinas, hotels and half-finished houses that have destroyed much of the Italian littoral, it's perhaps the most peaceful corner of Tuscany.

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — Far away from the Taliban insurgency, in this most peaceful corner of Afghanistan, a quiet revolution is gaining pace.

You'll find this prime specimen – all polished mirror, cut glass, chrome and stainless steel – sparkling in a peaceful corner of Shropshire's "lake district", near Ellesmere.

With its blossom-laden trees and cowslips swaying in the sunlight, it is difficult to imagine a more peaceful corner of England.

The war is desperately unpopular at home, and at first Germany thought it could hide its troops in a peaceful corner of Afghanistan where nothing much would happen.

One of Nick Eardley's highlights was meeting the Flower Colonies residents who fought off a proposed new development they said would have destroyed their peaceful corner of the city.

Even once peaceful corners like Costa Rica are struggling with addiction, gangs and drug-money corruption.

Southern Africa, one of the most peaceful corners of the continent, is now composed mostly of stable states dominated by one party.

We see peaceful corners presented like a dream or a fantasy, or a trip to the past, with neighbours hanging up their clothes, the radio trilling softly, kids rushing past to play games.

But it may be more likely that, as my partner, Candy, and I discovered last month when we spent several blissful days there hiking, swimming and staring out at evergreen-clad mountains flanking azure waters, it is merely one of the wildest, most remote and peaceful corners of one of the world's bluest seas.

Yet, in some peaceful corners of the country, life moves at a slower pace.