Sentence examples for tranquil period from inspiring English sources

Most were unwalled an indicator of the Pax Romana, a tranquil period of about 150 years.

In a more tranquil period, an afternoon at La Guardia can make for a quirky date or family excursion, bracketed by the impomptu, majestic airshow.

Ah, weekends on the New York City subway — that bucolic, tranquil period when the commuting masses empty out of the metropolis and blissfully human-free subway cars yield a comfortable seat to even the most jaded straphangers.

Antrim, who remembers a tranquil period in his childhood as one of "forced normalcy" ("our happy family was a worrisomely happy performance of family"), tries to force himself to behave normally.

I served as ambassador to Morocco under President Bill Clinton nearly 20 years ago during a more tranquil period in the Middle East.

Our empirical findings are as follows: First, while the LRB VaR model behaves reasonably well in tranquil periods, it significantly underestimates actual risk during unstable periods.

Challenges to the Modern Synthesis came from studies not just on mass extinctions, but on more tranquil periods of the fossil record.

However, our empirical results further indicate that the out-of-sample performance of the MVSWARCH-based hedge ratio is statistically marginal when investors hold a well-diversified market portfolio as their spot position and tranquil periods are experienced.

What "Frances and Bernard" has to offer is a fresh voice thinking seriously about what a religiously committed life might have felt like and perhaps, in our own far-from-tranquil period, might feel like again.

This piano music illustrates a tranquil, contemplative period.

If Mr. Zucker had any illusions about a tranquil orientation period, as he embarks on an entirely new career picking entertainment shows for NBC after a long career as a news producer, they were shattered by CBS's "Survivor" bombshell.