Sentence examples for quiet sojourn from inspiring English sources
This fall was supposed to be a quiet sojourn in New York, said Mr. Vargas Llosa, who sometimes lives in Peru and sometimes in Spain — or wherever his writing and teaching take him.
There were "two strands of rural complaint," Ladd writes, "both with a conservative tinge: the poor peasant's resentment of the highhanded rich motorist, and the outraged good taste of educated people who enjoyed their quiet sojourns in the countryside".
So began a mode of life that continued for a decade or more — a quiet bachelor existence in Vienna interspersed with sojourns abroad, making the acquaintance of important artistic figures of the day.
Sojourn's name was derived from that of the slave liberator Sojourner Truth and the word sojourn --a temporary stay.
She had moved to the neighborhood six weeks earlier after a brief sojourn on the Upper West Side, and found it quiet and welcoming, full of families and friendly shopkeepers.
The book that came out of Mr. Koren's Austrian sojourn, "The Flower Shop," published in 2005, was, in its own quiet way, stunning: it laid out the days and nights of the store cinematically and analytically — a documentary mixed into a philosophical exercise.
Indeed, after a sojourn in banking, he was brought back after Mr Brown inherited the premiership.Mr Heywood's analytical rigour, quiet efficiency and ability to please masters of different political stripes are all typical civil-service traits.
It was a dramatic sojourn.
"Sojourn" extracts some of them.
Thomas called his three-team sojourn "humbling".
