Sentence examples for seemingly tranquil from inspiring English sources

While seemingly tranquil, the area has become a magnet for drug traffickers who roam the borders here with Colombia and Peru.

We argue that, given current technology, macro stress tests are ill-suited as early warning devices, i.e. as tools for identifying vulnerabilities during seemingly tranquil times and for triggering remedial action.

A poster by Juan Antonio Morales presents a seemingly tranquil cafe scene, but rifles are leaning against one table, and the poster carries a militant message: "Los Fusiles Para el Frente!

For more than 30 years, residents of this seemingly tranquil suburb have been locked in bitter wrestling matches over everything from the disposal of autumn leaves to the very future of their village.

Though the uprising has yet to spread to Syria's two largest cities — Damascus, the capital, seemingly tranquil, and Aleppo, a key conservative bastion, has been relatively quiet — the protests have unfurled in Damascus's suburbs and across much of the rest of the country, building on longstanding neglect of the countryside and anger at corrupt and unaccountable security forces.

This lends credence to the emerging paradigm that sublime landscapes like New Zealand's are shaped not by the gradual processes traditionally invoked by geologists but by violent, episodic upheavals that shake the seemingly tranquil hills occupied by sheep and humans alike.

Hawaii, the land of seemingly endless tranquil beaches, has become, around this city at least, a land of seemingly endless traffic jams.

But just as there are more serious themes (such as suicide) embedded in Robert Frost's seemingly innocuous and tranquil poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1922), for example, there is more at play in Homer's deceptively calming watercolor and oil works.

The restaurant's recessed entrance leads to a haven indeed, a tranquil space seemingly far removed from the busy traffic of Bedford Road.

What stood out most were the descriptions of "tranquil tedium," a seemingly endless trudge through the "cubic" vastness of deep woods.

And yet what is new here is not the corruption, but only the violence: first the assassination of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown in his driveway on Dec. 15 and then a seemingly related firefight in a tranquil subdivision last Sunday.