Fortunately, days later, the drive turned miraculously tranquil, efficient.
About 150 people were stung Wednesday by what officials said was a lion's mane jellyfish weighing nearly 40 pounds, which turned the tranquil beach into a frenzied sea of screaming children and aching adults with red, sore feet and legs.
Government officials are warning that a yes vote could turn this tranquil Alpine nation into a "paradise for the Mafia," and a magnet for "drug tourists," attracted by readily available hard and soft drugs.
He had never got used to the surprise of turning off tranquil little side streets onto these great boulevards surging with mad-eyed shoppers and herds of taxis and bawling police cars.
The vote was first scheduled to be taken on May 6, but it was postponed when a Wesleyan junior, Johanna Justin-Jinich, was murdered that day at the bookstore, turning a tranquil campus into a raucous crime scene.
"Normally tranquil rivers turned into a violent mash-up of water and whatever else had washed into the streams," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported.
All of this turns Alain's tranquil domestic life into a nightmare, something out of Alfred Hitchcock or Claude Chabrol.
These days, however, community need reaches far beyond reference help — and in many libraries, it is turning a normally tranquil place into an emotional and stressful hotbed.
In which a couple get fed up with being told how stupid they are by their kids and retreat to their bedroom, which mysteriously turns into a tranquil 1950s world where children are dressed as Enid Blyton characters and only speak when spoken to.
Turn on the tranquil music.
It was on a block of East 85th Street that turned out to be wonderfully tranquil.
