Abreu, a journalist, novelist, short-story writer and playwright who died of AIDS in 1996, has created a work at once satirical and tender, silly and serene; it begins in darkness and ends advancing toward light.
When your space is serene, your mind begins to relax as well.
It must have taken them all of 10 seconds, Ann having been a serene frontrunner from the very beginning.
Mr. Rubenstein performed the concert's opening works, beginning with a serene account of Valentin Silvestrov's "Hymne — 2001," a stately chordal score with a plaintive, sober melody.
The family portraits — tableaux of love and ambivalence — express the central idea in Struth's work: the humbling force of superficially serene but deeply irrational relationships, beginning with the one between the photographer and the world.
The cameras focused on Mr. Muti as the work concluded, his face calm and serene as the applause began.
One girlfriend claims that she responds to crisis in a calm, almost serene manner since she began using Botox a year ago.
Her mentally unstable Mary is riveting: the serene manner gradually revealing hairline cracks, the smile beginning to look strained, a gulp of panic when her husband yells.
The shepherd's pipe solo opening the third movement of Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" had just begun its serene lilt when the squawk of a lobby announcement came crashing into Barbican Hall.
In doing so, I began to feel serene, focused, and even grateful for all it enables me to do — for instance, writing this essay.
