Terrorists presumed to be from al-Qaeda killed scores of people in Amman, the capital of Jordan, one of America's best Arab friends and till now a tranquil fire-break between Palestine and Iraq (see article).
The views are extraordinary on this tranquil trail, the silence broken only by the calls of the Bedouin, the bells of their grazing livestock, and birdsong.
The tranquil scene is finally broken by the roar of the head male who, with a toss of his lustrous mane and surprising show of speed, suddenly mounts a charge at another male.
The women's movement of the 1960s and '70s, the so-called "second wave" of feminism, represented a seemingly abrupt break with the tranquil suburban life pictured in American popular culture.
The collections Drivsnö (1909; "Loose Snow"), Aftnar i Tavastland (1911; "Evenings in Tavastland"), Skuggspel (1912; "A Play of Shadows"), and Spillror (1917; "Broken Bits") include more tranquil contemplative poetry, often dwelling on the idea of death.
As bad boys in bands called Tranquil Chaos tend to do, she says, he broke her heart.
An avalanche caught him in a gully between the Osthang and the old Kandahar downhill course; when rescuers found his body, they concluded, from the tranquil look on his face, that he had broken his neck.
The tranquil Andantino is violently sundered by an agonizing disruption at its center; the frisky Scherzo breaks down into indecisive stuttering.
I chose Manzhouli - close to China's border with Mongolia (the country) and Russia - for a summer break because its grasslands are supposed to be tranquil, cool, sparsely populated and extremely beautiful.
The video taken Saturday by Scott Koerner, director of IT at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, shows seemingly tranquil waters erupt with a flurry of fins and sea spray as two white sharks break the surface.
