The man now in charge of Brookhaven hails from the comparatively tranquil world of private industry.
Father Jean-Mary, 42, a compact man with tranquil eyes, said the lack of highways and large ports made it doubly hard to send aid.
I told him that this was a distinction of interest to the law courts of Belfast, but that it was probably beside the point, at this late date, for him to argue his case as a man of tranquil nature.
The central character, Piscator, is not simply a champion and expositor of the art of angling but a man of tranquil, contented temper, pious and sententious, with a relish for the pleasures of friendship, verse and song, good food, and drink.
Stanford leaned on one elbow, reclining against some cushions, the very picture, I thought, of the rich man at leisure, tranquil and untroubled.
When we slid open the wooden door of his small and tranquil restaurant, Shimahei, the joking man I had met at the bar had been replaced by a fast, agile craftsman working alone, except for an assistant who would deliver plates to the two tables he couldn't reach from the bar.
If you have science in your background, you can probably guess what this film is about: the building by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, of the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest machine ever made by man, on a tranquil site near Lucerne, Switzerland.
Tranquil, that is, until a Portuguese man of war came floating out of the water and settled on the sand, gently heaving and glistening in the sun.
A purely feminine dewiness infuses Ms. Cattrall's Amanda, and (more than in any version I've seen) a rather poignant hope that she might be able to lead a tranquil life with a nice, boring man.
But of all team sports, baseball, with its graceful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, seems to me best suited to accommodate, and be ornamented by, a loner.
