Quiet music creates a tranquil mood, and flower arrangements provide little bursts of color against the patterned granite and tile walls.
For an inland location, the Lake Como setting probably cannot be surpassed for tranquil mood with dramatic visual variety, the mountains on all sides climbing straight up from the banks of the waters they enclose, the hillside and mountaintop homes and villas attesting to generations of Italian affluence and to a whimsical taste for theatrical impracticability.
Soft, pastel colorations aid in increasing work efficiency and contribute to tranquil moods; bright, strongly contrasting colours seem to contribute to excitement and enthusiasm.
Although it is impossible to define the idyll as a definite literary form, the adjective idyllic has come to be synonymous with the rustic, pastoral, and tranquil, the mood first created by the Alexandrian poets.
The mood is tranquil rather than tense.
If you are in the mood for tranquil coves and deserted beaches, or live music and jam-packed floating beach bars, they have that.
Belgian truckers seized the inner ring road in Brussels, but outside the view of television cameras, the mood was surprisingly tranquil, with some protesters even sipping beer at an outdoor cafe near the Transportation Ministry.
Even so, 20,000 troops and police were deployed to secure Bogotá's normally tranquil streets.In Guatemala, the mood was soured by the arrest in Massachusetts this month of hundreds of illegal workers, many of them Guatemalan.
Mr. Kavakos also teased out the quizzical strands and shifting moods of the deceptively tranquil slow movement.
Dr. Sacks notes that while the composer's newest piano concerto "is full of turbulent, agitated whirls and twirls" in sections, Mr. Picker is able to write in every mode — "the dreamy and tranquil no less than the violent and stormy" — and can move "from one mood to another with consummate ease".
"I AM NOT A SAINT" Capturing the national mood of reverence, South Africa's most famous cartoonist, Zapiro, published a drawing of Mandela's tranquil face, eyes closed, sinking over the horizon like a setting sun on the sea, while an awed crowd looks on.
