Sentence examples for tranquillity from from inspiring English sources

But, as if suddenly remembering that this is a lament, the mood quickly softens to a lyrical tranquillity from which it will only briefly stir again.

But the story here is less about individual characters than about a national mood: as attentive cameras glide from urban unrest to rural tranquillity, from teeming political rallies to a lone fisherman on a glassy lake, the growing agitation of voters amps up the tension.

Through decades of political repression, the city preserved, at least on the surface, an atmosphere of tranquillity, from its wide downtown avenues to the spacious, smooth-stoned courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque and the vine-draped alleys of the Old City, where restaurants and bars tucked between the storehouses of medieval merchants hummed with quiet conversation.

Under the circumstances, it was good to stay at the Mount Nelson Hotel, a bastion of tranquillity from which I made forays into the city, then retreated into its jasmine- and hibiscus-scented gardens to take stock of what I had seen.

A spokesman for Bonhams said the picture "conveys calm and tranquillity from the shore of the popular and traditional seaside town".

This sense of concentration faltered slightly in the slow movement, which needed more spaciousness and tranquillity, but from its rhetorical opening onwards, the finale built up an impressive head of dynamism and elation.

Trinity describes it as a grassy retreat, dotted by century-old elms and oaks, and "a special place of peace and tranquillity far from the chrome and glass towers of central Manhattan".

Several fragments suggest that this tranquillity results from his not engaging in theoretical inquiry like other philosophers, and with his not engaging in debate with those philosophers.

True tranquillity results from a condition of inviolable self-fulfilment (securitas) based on resources that are in our power (in nostra potestate esse).

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Happily, Ananda is bathed in tranquillity, miles away from mad traffic and poor sacred cows eating carrier bags.