Sentence examples for serene refuge from inspiring English sources
At the serene refuge about 75 miles northwest of Manhattan, curious lay people can join Buddhist brothers and sisters for a free "day of mindfulness" twice a week.
East of the Rochor Canal, the perfume shops and textile merchants around Arab Street remain picturesque, although business is waning, and Sultan Mosque endures as a serene refuge for the faithful.
Sasabune exemplifies a certain kind of sushi restaurant and experience: the tiny, simple, serene refuge that inspires a cult of devotees, who equate instruction with enlightenment, surrender with liberation.
Instead, they were loyal residents — some of whom were second- and even third-generation Encino-dwellers — who wanted the neighborhood to be defined not by Encino Commons' lackluster shopping opportunities, but by Encino's surprisingly fascinating history, and by their steadfast belief that it has always been a serene refuge from the commotion over the hill.
It is not a serene, dappled refuge for graceful, gamboling nymphs.
Moreover, Serene, Nature, and Refuge were identified as the three most important PSDs resulting in stress restoration.
Therefore, the combination of Serene, Nature, and Refuge together with the absence of Rich in species and Social create an environment offering stress restoration.
A beautifully landscaped, serene courtyard offers refuge for meditation to the sounds of percolating fountains.
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).
But the refuge is mostly serene and quiet, save for the occasional squawking bird.
The aesthetic austerity that results requires and rewards our inclination to look and think: wander long enough around Mies's glassy Farnsworth House of 1950, and you see crystallized in every simple and delicately floating surface the bones of every good house ever made — a severe and serene dream of comfort and clarity, refuge and prospect.
