Sentence examples for serene existence from inspiring English sources
It hardly sounds like the spare, serene existence they sought to achieve with the design of their home.
Hidden away in a monastery, freed from the obligations of family or mortgages or bosses who email at 11pm, who couldn't adopt a more serene existence?
Eloui believed that this "serene" existence would, as he assured the Millers, cure their daughter's ennui, and a series of exotic pastimes — snake-charming, camel racing, desert safaris — did briefly distract her.
Hartmann "considered his life's work to lie in the perfecting of simple pleasures, mainly of a physical or domestic nature … The idea of God, for example, he rejected as derogating from his own serene existence".
The pastoral genre has been around since ancient Greece, but it took a particular hold on the collective consciousness during the Industrial Revolution, when visions of a serene existence in the country were painted in sharp contrast to the indignities of urban life.
In Vikram Chandra's new novel, "Sacred Games" (HarperCollins; $27.95), Ganesh Gaitonde, a sort of Bombay Al Capone, expresses his contempt for the English-speaking classes, people oblivious of the rampant criminality underpinning their serene existence: "These Englishwallahs were always superior, as if the world they lived in was some other one, far from my barrack, my streets, my home".
Ours could have taken a football team with ease (though not necessarily pleasure) and provided the half dozen of us who joined the Grampus to sail the first of the cruise's three sections from Oban to Talisker with a serene, luxurious existence.
It is this contradiction between two narratives that is examined in this episode of Faith Complex: one a tale of relatively serene Jewish existence in Christendom, punctuated by periods of cultural incandescence; the other, a saga of inexplicably brutal and rapid Jewish death carried out on Polish soil, with no small amount of complicity on the part of Poles themselves.
Using only the advice contained in a stack of self-help books, she set about cleaning her home, losing weight, becoming a better partner and parent and generally cultivating a more serene approach to existence.
The ride on our $112,265 test car without Magic Body Control — adaptive air suspension is standard — was already one of the more serene and balanced in existence.
