Sentence examples for serenity before from inspiring English sources

Yet on a day where there was supposed to be serenity before the storm, there was nearly calamity.

Instead of the snarling come-hither of Bruce Lee and his imitators, Mr. Li's round face takes on a beatific serenity before he goes to work on one of his Cinemascope beatdowns.

Rootes explained that the mouse's black eye represents a moment of serenity before it dies.

In the recording, Russell explains that he doesn't want to hurt anyone, but rambles on about doing "barrel rolls," "sweet nothings," learning to fly from "video games," getting possible prison time or a job as a pilot for the stunt, seeing the orca that had been carrying her dead calf around, and hoping to glean a "moment of serenity" before taking the plane "nose down" to "call it a night".

He has "a great serenity, thinks before he speaks and when he does, it is always in an impeccable French".

(Warning: if you love your dog as much as I love Roscoe P. Coltrane, my Jack Russell terrier, scratch its belly and get to your serenity place before you view this. It is very disturbing).

Pool is one of nine departments in RoC, and was known for its serenity and natural beauty before the war; today it is a devastated area.

Both are combined in the entry room to the show in a beautiful Rajasthani cloth hanging, The Gopis Dance in the Forest, or Sarat Purnima (c1720-25) depicting milk maids holding hands in a dance before Krishna, all serenity and movement, and in two brush drawings from Kota of Elephants Pushing Cannons Drawn by Bullocks, all muscle, tension and might.

Asked for ­stories, Alec obliges by telling of his marriage to Lucia, a Swiss au pair he met on an assignment, with whom he lived in lonely serenity — they had one daughter — before she decamped to Europe to be with a man she met at a neighbor's garden party.

Not exactly the state of serenity I was aiming to be in before my serene yoga class.

During that time, he was tortured, his family was killed and he spent years in British-run prison camps, and memories of the brutal years before independence trouble the serenity of his old age.