It is a long journey from a brash, brilliant Generation Xer, self-confident and insecure at the same time, who wears his emotions on his sleeve, to someone more serene, his emotions under control and yet still intact inside him.
"To demonstrate 'buon disegno' (good design), Michelangelo reversed the sheet and performed a miracle of artistic alchemy: ugliness became beauty, harrowing but unbecoming emotion became serene resignation, an indecorous head was transformed into a doomed Cleopatra," Wallace writes.
Meanwhile, Mexico played with great patience, controlling possession along with its emotions, remaining serene despite enormous pressure not to lose at home for the first time to the Americans and further jeopardize its ability to qualify for the 2010 World Cup.
He settled on characters that tap into conflicting emotions: They're serene yet daunting and huge yet indistinct.
Entitled Self-Obliteration #1: Ecstasy, there was more emotion in Athey's serene concentration on a pane of glass in front of him than in the last two decades of MOCA's curatorial platitudes.
Our eyes met and we smiled at each other; I imagined we recognized in one another the conflicted emotions conjured by these serene people tuning into themselves, each other and beyond.
Anyone who lived through this period will understand the look on his face as he hits Play: infatuation and awe, the kind of emotion that Cole Porter called "rapture serene".
Monteverdi's Hor che'l Ciel e la Terra e'l Vento Tace brought with it a sense of rapt introspection and some immaculate high, soft tenor singing as its initially serene landscape gradually became strewn with dissonant emotions.
As for the noise of politics and politicians, well, it "impinges on the serene silence of his contemplation and their vulgar emotion spoils the delicate concentration of his vision".
In a separate study, also published in the journal Emotion, researchers looked at the effects of more serene nature outings on 119 UC Berkeley undergraduates as they journaled about their daily experiences over the course of two weeks.
Measures included components of PSDs (i.e. Nature, Culture, Prospect, Social, Space, Rich in species, Refuge, and Serene), and Short Revised Restoration Scale (SRRS, which covers four dimensions as stress responses: emotion, physiology, cognition, and behavior).
