Sentence examples similar to serene backwater from inspiring English sources

Alternately harrowing and serene, it runs through a tangle of back roads and backwater towns, hopping among islands, beaches, ferries and tunnels for 1,050 miles.

Serene, serene.

NEW ORLEANS — "Backwater".

Yeah, serene.

Boston was a backwater.

But this subsidized backwater?

Serene even.

Backwater status may be fleeting.

Or serene.

Most serene King!

Doyle was serene.