How To Use Serene In A Sentence
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The calm was eerie; the vista serene and surreal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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The valley is quiet and serene, and right now is bursting with the energy and exuberance of spring - the trees are budding, the daffodils bobbing, the birds are busy, the lambs are bleating and there are calves suckling.
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To the undiscerning eye, this place might seem to have a serenely majestic air, but Harun can feel the underlying tension with every step.
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He was on his serene, almost stealthy way.
The Sun
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You spend four or so years in "blocked" college time, serene in the knowledge that nothing will change (short of failure, which is of the catastrophic/sublime mode).
Archive 2003-05-01
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I like the unripe, slightly salty melon of Vanille Galante, the cold lily note, the almost non-existence of vanilla, the pure, calm water in which the ingredients serenely flow, the pastel colorlessness of it all.
Vanille Galante by Hermes: Perfume Review
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Beyond the horse paddock, a troop of capybaras, pig-size aquatic rodents, emerged from the tree line and settled serenely into a wallow.
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He was, indeed, as Dr. Lavendar said, a man of humble mind; and yet with his humbleness was a serene certainty of belief as to his soul's welfare that would have been impossible to John Fenn, who measured every man's chance of salvation by his own theological yardstick, or even to Dr. Lavendar, who thought salvation unmeasurable.
The Voice
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danza," which is kin to Mexican airs and to the Cuban "guaracha" and may be compared to a flowing brook, now gliding along serenely, now rushing in cascades.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future
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It's a video litany of natural disasters, of wind and rain and snow and donder and blitzen, punctuated with images of lesser vehicles incapacitated by the elements, while Hummers sail serenely through.
Patt Morrison: Hummer? No, Bummer!
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Around the room, eyelids are drooping and the smiles are serene.
Times, Sunday Times
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The visual stimulation of this wall of images finds a serene counterpart in a small room opening to the right, re-creating the devotional sanctum of a Mouride holy man.
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The calm was eerie; the vista serene and surreal.
Times, Sunday Times
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They brought enthusiasm, a gong, some bongos, and turntables, yet aside from some light effects, played a surprisingly serene set.
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It is hypnotically serene – out in the great wide open, no sounds except the gentle scrape of the wooden oar on the pebbled waterbed, the occasional cry of a bird, the wind rustling through the banana trees.
In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica
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Zhen-zhen Diary Entry
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When we got inside the French works, I was astonished to observe how little harm had been done the defenses by the German artillery, for although I had not that serene faith in the effectiveness of their guns held by German artillerists generally, yet I thought their terrific cannonade must have left marked results.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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She recovered her equanimity, and was an agreeable image of serene dignity.
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Alabaster couples loitered along the garden path, handsome, whole and serene.
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So I seek absolution from my wicked thoughts, and I promise to be calm and serene from now on.
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For some time I heard nothing more of the Princess of Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the “interlopers” were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, ” especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
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Broad trees provide welcome shade along the entire way, and the street has a more relaxed and serene ambiance than many city shopping districts.
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He'd held his feelings in check, yet felt serene and happy as he held her in his arms during that evening of comfortableness on both of their parts.
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The stars serenely encased the green-and-brown planet in their milky twinkle, lighting up all the oceans with a crystal glow, a beautiful shine.
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The Pilbara is gentle and serene in a good Wet, with spinifex waving like wheat on the flats and the heady smell of fresh country.
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Yet the experience felt soft, serene, adding immeasurably to the allure of the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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This serene beauty is in danger due to unmanaged and unplanned human interference.
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A combination of library, cinema, academic centre and film studio, its windows glow serenely on the featureless horizon.
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I believe there is nothing more to be said or done to-night, "responded the duke, in a desponding tone -- for it _cannot_ be an exhilarating anticipation to have to get up in the morning and stand up to murder, or be murdered, even where the duellist is the bravest of men, backed by the serenest of seconds.
The Lost Lady of Lone
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For all her fierce colouring, her face was serene and her voice soft.
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It was a serene setting against which to digest the implications of such grim news.
Times, Sunday Times
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She seemed, to him, to be at peace, tranquil and serene.
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In the wings, the divine Edwina smiled on serenely.
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His designs live on today, looking as serenely inevitable as they did decades ago, the art of a great artist.
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And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity!
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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There aren't many cuts - often a scene will take place before us in one shot, with the camera serenely gliding from one side of a room to the other.
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Despite the repeated attempts to the serene and joint cohabitation of peoples, peace is possible and right.
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Next comes the Living River Trail, starting with a trout pool populated by fish, serenely floating wood ducks, turtles and other peskier species such as "giant toe biters" (water bugs).
Where the Wild Things Are
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About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15 th-century church.
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Naaz Hosseini's voice slips from a serene hum to a full-throated wail to a sweet high-pitched lilt, flavored by her roots in Armenia and Persia.
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The procession passes serenely, like a cortege entering the cemetery gates.
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Quibus omnibus articulis, Serenesima princeps Elizabeth, Dei gratia
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Your amoebic dysentery correspondent is in bed, fully injected with emetine, having flown four hundred miles to Nairobi via Arusha from where the outfit is camped on the Serenea river on the far side of the Serengeti plain.
Hemingway on Hunting
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Grassed mounds, ornamental trees and a lily pond are planned to complement the serene ambience.
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It's just the museum's serene, aquatic lighting - not to mention its ongoing exhibition of seashells - that surrounds you.
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The serene Andaman and Nicobar islands may soon become a much sought after destination by not just tourists looking for cool and unsullied locales but also pearl aficionados.
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Having bitten off this large mouthful, Mr. Burroughs proceeds with serene and beautiful satisfaction to masticate it in the following fashion.
The Other Animals
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On this side you are looking at something very serene and mellow, then the next side, much heavier.
The Sun
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At work, others get frazzled but you stay serene and make progress.
The Sun
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The state successfully marketed its serene backwaters, well-managed wildlife sanctuaries, ayurvedic treatments, temple festivals and boat races to attract the high-spending tourist.
Kerala: Gateway Of India
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She sat serenely in her throne, surveying her courtiers through utterly regal eyes, which hid the heavy pounding of her heart.
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As she puts it she has always aimed to be the most confident, the most unruffled, the most serene.
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She looked as calm and serene as she always did.
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Returning health crept through his veins -- a serene, a kindly, a celestial joy circumfused his heart.
Night and Morning, Volume 5
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The balancing act between self-loathing and self-assertion got her through the wild days and has landed her on her present plane of serene renunciation.
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Great minds such as ours must be serene and tranquil in order to remain above the fray.
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‘The heart still races,’ he insisted, although it has to be said that the great man looked as serenely unruffled by the prospect as ever.
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Almost, when he knew the blow had started and just ere the edge of steel bit the flesh and nerves it seemed that he gazed upon the serene face of the Medusa, Truth - And, simultaneous with the bite of the steel on the onrush of the dark, in a flashing instant of fancy, he saw the vision of his head turning slowly, always turning, in the devil-devil house beside the breadfruit tree.
THE RED ONE
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May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
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'Serena nox'; and upon perusing again what I have writ in this paper, I finde that I have out of the customariness of that expression my self near the beginning said, And that most serene night, &c.
Andrew Marvell
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In the other his head is carried across an open, airy landscape by an anxious maid who follows the lovely, serene and very slightly pensive assassin.
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Those of you who prefer an action drama with a more serene feel should try the Southern drawl of Justified.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Hagen was a free-and-easy place compared with the Rheinischer, and among its inmates there was no one who could sing a better song than manly George -- type of the Briton at whom foreigners stare -- who, ignorant of a word of their language, wholly unprovided with any authorisation save the passport signed "Salisbury," and having not quite so much business at the seat of war as he might have at the bottom of a coal-mine, gravitates into danger with inevitable certainty, and stumbles through all manner of difficulties and bothers by reason of a serene good-humour that nothing can ruffle and a cool resolution before which every obstacle fades away.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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In recent years, his health began to decline but his serene and tranquil nature never deserted him.
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Looking back acrothe years, we come to realize that it takes many birthdays to make us kind and wise. Growing older only means the spirit grows serene. Happy birthday!
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Please help us celebrate the grace of timber frames, the tactile shapeliness of hand-hewn logs, and the serene experience of soft beams of light filtering through the high ceiling of a gambrel loft.
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And the infant serenely smiled to herself, content not to understand until the time should ripen.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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She sauntered onto the set, looking serenely confident.
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One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty.
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
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Looking back across the years,we come to realize that it takes many birthdays to make us kind and wise.Growing older only means the spirit grows serene.Happy birthday!
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It was very calm, peaceful and serene.
Times, Sunday Times
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This drawing shows Mary not as the calm and sedate Theotokos holding the infant, as in Byzantine icons, nor as the serene and radiant young woman holding a plump and settled baby, familiar from early Renaissance paintings.
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I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble.
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With her serene smiles, delicate shimmies, and fluttering fan, she cast a teasing spell of seduction.
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Curtis was asleep, limbs akimbo, his usually expressive face was relaxed and serene.
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The voice was measured and serene, deep sonorous and guttural.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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While these wild but ingenious speculators conducted the career of that philosophy called the Ionian, to the later time of the serene and lofty spiritualism of Anaxagoras, two new schools arose, both founded by Ionians, but distinguished by separate names -- the Eleatic and the Italic.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
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I looked at it, suddenly calmed by its serene expression.
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The boat sailed serenely on towards the horizon.
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While the public areas are bright and buzzy, the bedrooms are serene and minimalist, styled in dusky blues and greys.
Times, Sunday Times
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Estrella yawned a little, and closed her eyes, listening silently to the serene sound of birds chirping and the small insects of summer buzzing.
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And while she admits there are few places on earth as serenely bucolic as England's legendary academic enclave, she's clearly pleased to be back home in one of the city's most fashionable neighborhoods.
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She remained serene and calm with no need for the pain medication until the next afternoon when she died in her sleep.
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Benches and a fountain, as well as flowers and plants sent in from all over the world made the otherwise clean hospital pavilion somewhat serene.
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Yet Daley remained outwardly serene, sometimes buoyant, while all around him the tension was building.
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There it stands, high above them all, and remote from them all, in its air of great antiquity, in its unaccountableness, in its serene truthfulness, in its unapproachable sublimity, in that impress of divine majesty and ineffable holiness which even the unbelieving neologist has been compelled to acknowledge, and by which every devout reader feels that the first page in Genesis is forever distinguished from any mere human production.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Among faces, Gene Tierney's is a tournament rose, an opaline study in serene, sexualized perfection, a mad musky Egyptian daydream of cat thoughts.
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May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
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She dwelt in a serene atmosphere of unsuspicion, going about freely with him, taking their right relations for granted, and not thinking about them.
The Gray Dawn
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Associated Press The bank announced in a statement that "to return to a more serene debate on the long-term remuneration of executives, top management has pledged not to exercise those stock option rights while SocGen receives help from the state.
SocGen, Amid Furor, Revises Options Plan
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Jupiter is jovial, Venus rapt and serene, but Mercury could do with a bit more diablerie and the final Neptune a better sense of the ethereal.
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Lithographs, watercolours, drawings, etchings and numerous sculptures are housed in this serene villa.
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Like one of Henry Fielding's squirearchs, Noel planted his library not in some clattering urban center, but in his serene country seat.
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They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
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May I be firm and resolute! May I be kind, compassionate, and friendly! May I be humble, calm, quiet, unruffled and serene! May I serve to be perfect! May I be perfect to serve!
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She had been in ill health for sometime but had borne her sickness with commendable courage and a serene nature.
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Beyond it lies another world, quite unlike the one on bustling Queen West, a serene, unworldly oasis of miniature food, quaint dishes and exotic teas.
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She held on straight for the Red Sea under a serene sky, under a sky scorching and unclouded, enveloped in a fulgor of sunshine that killed all thought, oppressed the heart, withered all impulses of strength and energy.
Lord Jim
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The voice was measured and serene, deep sonorous and guttural.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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To earthbound astronomy enthusiasts, Saturn was the serenely beautiful and mysterious counterpart to the overtly violent Jupiter, floating in a distant, frigid realm.
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It was a serene overlook off of the Blue Ridge Parkway I found while looking for a quiet place to contemplate my post-residency plans.
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The last painting Church executed on this theme, A Country Home, provides a bucolic slice of life in a serenely solitary and beautiful setting.
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She turned and glared balefully at Thomas Fraser, serene under his helm, with the hilt of his sword clasped under crossed hands.
Dragonfly in Amber
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He never bludgeons or scalps or scarifies; but serenely indicates, with the calm gesture of a superior authority, the defects and blots which mar perfection, but which the unthinking multitude ignores, or, at worst, admires.
Matthew Arnold
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The snow-capped mountain ranges, the sheer sensuousness of the sublime peaks and their changing hues provide a serene touch to the exhibition.
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He raised his glass, toasting his host and hostess silently, his smile serene, sincere.
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But they wandered mainly in the direction of Mrs. Farrinder -- they lingered upon the serene solidity of the great oratress.
The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
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The officer above mentioned promised to communicate this representation to a clerk, who promised to speak about it to the referendary, who promised to mention it to his most serene highness whenever an opportunity should offer.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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He will give no room in himself to thoughts other than those of God, and his soul will be unconquerably pure and will alone break all the bonds of mind and matter and become serenely free.
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After she recomposed herself, Annabelle looked at Maureen serenely.
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The jagged geometry of supersmooth Europa; the idiosyncratic surfaces of the other orbs floating serenely in space; the pristine interstellar vacuum; the inscrutable emptiness of intergalactic space, that immense, echoing, absolutely featureless void enveloping the spinning galaxies: it all serves as a perfect philosophical mirror image, reflecting back the quandary of the species, the limitations of human knowledge.
A Space in Time
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The slow Blues movement is a serene oasis of calm at the heart of the work.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the latest batch of beautifully filmed "Jazz Icons" DVDs, Art Farmer (England, 1964) plays with serene subtlety on ballads like "Darn That Dream," but on "Bilbao Song" and others, the great flugelhornist is on fire.
Rochester City Newspaper
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Jacen was far more serene, and took a measured, pacifistic stance, believing any aggressive use of the Force to be a step towards the dark side.
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She took her mind away with a wrench from the recollection of the past to the bright serene contemplation of the hopeful future.
North and South
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‘In them, Ken has fused the rich colours of sky, sea and earth - ultramarine, cyan, terracotta - with neutrals to create works which are serene and yet striking,’ says David.
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In obedience to by-laws and shareholders, a corporation is a serenely calculating, bloodless, bodiless profit-machine.
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Looking back acrothe years, we come to realize that it takes many birthdays to make us kind and wise. Growing older only means the spirit grows serene. Happy birthday!
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There was a serene and tranquil quality about Dermot, a gentle aura of goodness and kindness that radiated from his heart.
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Subverting the derivative subterranean drift of the rest of the album, Smith allows dissonant chording and mechanical clanks to disrupt his serene drones.
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Those of you who prefer an action drama with a more serene feel should try the Southern drawl of Justified.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a minimum of commentary, the film is serene and beautiful and peaceful beyond description.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many felt that the serene Sannidhanam should not have been made the venue for its satyagraha.
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The three serene and newly refurbished treatment rooms make the hectic beauty floor seem a mere memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Manor Café's patio fulfills the criteria handily, a serene oasis in the midst of huge budding trees behind the teeming arteries of 124th. St. and 102nd. Ave.
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But Perfect View, poised on a ledge above Snow Hill and beneath Richmond Heights, gazing serenely across to Bathampton and what – in my young day as a cub reporter on the Bath Chronicle – we called the Admiralty hutments: Perfect View is the real thing.
Britain's best views: Bath
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On one side of our army helicopter are lush, serene pastures.
Times, Sunday Times
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The serene and apparently untroubled marriage of the royal pair is remarkable.
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The voice was measured and serene, deep sonorous and guttural.
JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
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In third or fourth, torque is plentiful, yet the ride is smooth and serene.
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They stood beside her, large, serene people, murmuring graciously and gently inclining their handsome heads as they gave their hands to the guests; and even the youngest and most ebullient of these took on a hushed mannerliness with a closer approach to the bower.
Alice Adams
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Looking back across the years,we come to realize that it takes many birthdays to make us kind and wise.Growing older only means the spirit grows serene.Happy birthday!
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Serene, then, and confident, the heavy cruisers rushed out to englobe the Boskonian fortress.
Gray Lensman
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Rich in moss, mist and mozzies, New Zealand's southernmost forests appear serene, remote and virtually untouched by human hands.
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`And I'd like," Ginny continued serenely, as if he had not spoken, `to rehabilitate the Tower.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Joanna grinned back, her serene beauty sparkling into the quick, unexpected mischief that Isabel had seen in fitzAlan.
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It is the Holy Spirit--'rest for the weary, refreshment for the pining, solace in the midst of woe'--who imparts to the soul an imperturbable poise and a serene calm, the character of recollectedness, the soaring lightness of a full inner freedom.
Finding Peace
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For instance, when Swinburne read her poetry he exclaimed: “I have always thought that nothing more glorious in poetry has ever been written”, and went on to say of her New Year Hymn that it was touched as with the fire and bathed as in the light of sunbeams, tuned as to chords and cadences of refluent sea-music beyond reach of harp and organ, large echoes of the serene and sonorous tides of heaven
The Common Reader, Second Series
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Everything was bright; the sun shone serenely, birds sang, and clouds drifted across the perfect blue sky.
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‘I don't have to be an empath to know what you're thinking,’ Efia said serenely, looking backward once or twice.
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With its gray clapboard siding, its forthright Colonial architecture, and its serene oceanside setting, the unpretentious two-story house immediately appealed to the couple's relaxed sense of tradition.
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Rich with wildlife, the expansive network of mud channels, seagrass meadows, marshes and dunes on the northern coast of Germany and the Netherlands is a destination for serene views for miles.
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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The Kungsbacka Trio are embarking on a series, and this first volume includes the famous "Gypsy Rondo", dispatched with mirth, and some lovely movements such as the serene Allegro, ma dolce of the D major trio and the more severe Andante cantabile of the E flat minor trio; in the F sharp minor trio there's a version of a movement from his Symphony No 102.
Haydn: Piano Trios Vol 1, Nos 24, 25, 26, 31 – review
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In the chapel where Sister Hilaria lay in her new coffin, made in the brothers 'own workshop and lined with lead, it was almost as cold as out in the frost, and the body had not suffered any flawing of its serene beauty.
The Virgin In The Ice
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In the fiercely private corporate world, the boardroom has been a pretty serene place.
ONE MORE PINK SLIP?
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But it can have a serene, rustic feel, due in large part to the way it straddles the Rhine without overdeveloping the actual riverfront.
A Resilient and Renovated Bonn
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Looking back across the years,we come to realize that it takes many birthdays to make us kind and wise.Growing older only means the spirit grows serene.Happy birthday!
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With a wave of his hand he blanked the desktop and looked up at her, his expression serene once more.
Creative Couplings
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It was particularly irksome during a serene hymn by the medieval composer Machaut, sung by three sopranos from Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices during the opening weekend of the inaugural festival.
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In such works, the serene surface of domestic placidity is only occasionally ruffled by dissonant details: Lou presents a world that is as familiar as it is banal.
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The work he seemed to reject, in 1970, was not a single-minded oeuvre, but spanned a remarkable range, from delicate and almost serene studies in red crosshatching that look a bit like a sunset imposed on Monet's waterlilies, to thick, roughly painted and dark forms in the early to mid-1960s that suggest not so much abstraction as a futile effort to paint over and blot out suppressed figurative ideas.
Art reviews: 'Philip Guston, Roma' and 'David Smith Invents' at the Phillips
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a serene autumnal mood
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All is spread out in a picturesque wooded glen with a brook flowing serenely nearby.
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Thisafter, swift’s mightmace deposing, he shall aidress to His Serenemost by a speechreading from his miniated vellum, alfi byrni gamman dealter etcera zezera eacla treacla youghta kaptor lomdom noo, who meaningwhile that illuminatured one, Papyroy of Pepinregn, my Sire, great, big King,
Finnegans Wake
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The image paired with the title created an appealing pensive and serene mood, and I was stirred to buy it.
CD Sales Based on Album Artwork, Cover Design
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She wanted Phoebe's long bold stare, so different from Rachel's serene regard-more dangerous, more challenging.
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Over and over again, it is the story I get from nearly every visitor to various islands, most of which are described as lusciously green and serene and not the place to go with plutonic friends.
Traveling In My World: Kauai «
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As it was, the serene and hippic gloom of the handsome horse-breeder daunted the daughters of Eve, and they failed to make up their minds about the exact value of him, socially considered.
My Lady's Money
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When she arrived, she gazed upon a very old bonsai tree that lay rooted in the middle of a serene rock garden.
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- Javier Campos returned to his neighborhood for the first time in nearly a month Monday to find the serene little enclave of fishing camps and homes a putrid, mud-caked mess after the historic flooding of the Mississippi River.
Mississippi River Floods 2011: Residents Return To Flood-Damaged Homes In Mississippi
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She looks very regal and serene when she arrives; her back has now clicked into place.
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The slow Blues movement is a serene oasis of calm at the heart of the work.
Times, Sunday Times
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She looked like a sleeping angel, her expression serene, her hair a disheveled waterfall on the pillow.
No Way Out
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And its serene flow added a cool rush to the surrounding area.
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On one side of our army helicopter are lush, serene pastures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her talent for subterfuge lay hidden behind her sweet, serene smile. She beat them all.
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Cascading waterfalls, rapid rivers, serene lakes, craggy mountains, secret caves, bountiful seas, kaleidoscopic coral reefs and scenic islands all offer something for each individual.
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The Madonna presided over it all, high and serene above the altar, dressed in pale-blue silk embellished with golden embroidery.
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A peaceful death betokened a serene conscience, a life well lived.
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There was a painting in gray and white before me, serene and unruffled as a frozen pond.
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The three spacious rooms are serenely uncluttered.
Times, Sunday Times
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She stood serenely as white police officers in riot gear rushed to arrest her.
Times, Sunday Times
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All is spread out in a picturesque wooded glen with a brook flowing serenely nearby.
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All I could hear was birdsong and the mutterings of passing people who largely observed the serene sanctity of the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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The walls were painted a serene light yellow, even though the bright white lights lit the room in such a harsh, unforgiving light.
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Brian Gray's short film featured Johnny Cash singing religious songs, a gritty accompaniment to a serene film that followed a trio of utterly committed and convinced toilers in the vineyards of the Lord.
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Water buffalo and goats graze placidly alongside the track; elegant white cranes glide serenely across the paddy fields.
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But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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The serene Mexican peak, however, sprawls some lava from time to time, however its Bulgarian paronym is part of the colossal play with words, which deluges the Bulgarian Orthodox homeland for an entire month already.
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What chiefly struck me about Mrs Brindley was her serene air of capableness, of having a self-confidence which experience had richly justified.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
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So I seek absolution from my wicked thoughts, and I promise to be calm and serene from now on.
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Similarly, even as sophisticated quantitative mensuration came gradually to supersede the qualitative analyses of medieval science, alchemists and astrologers serenely continued their work.
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Unlike the serene slipstream voyage out from Arcturus, the high-warp voyage to Mu Arae was giving the da Vinci a thorough shaking.
Creative Couplings
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For only when the psychical pneuma is serene, lucid, and clear does it cross over to the posterior ventricle (Publicius, Art of Memory, 28).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Beth's face is serene and childlike in the dim light; she breathes slowly, deeply.
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He seemed very happy and serene afterwards, holding on to the crucifix the padre had given him.
MR STARLIGHT
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Sister Ursula the hospitaler was a tall, thin woman perhaps fifty years old, with a lined, experienced face at once serene, resigned, and even mildly amused, as if she had seen and come to terms with all the vagaries of human behaviour, and nothing could now surprise or disconcert her.
The Confession of Brother Haluin
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The child's face was serene and beautiful.
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Also, the pictorial representations that seem to depict a serene august order would lead one to believe that the room and the writing environment were commensurate with this.
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Around the room, eyelids are drooping and the smiles are serene.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today the islands are serene and peaceful.
Times, Sunday Times
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He switched serenely between keyboard and guitar throughout, just as his illustrious predecessor used to do.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the placid surface that suggested a serene dream, he twitched occasionally, as if his eyes would burst wide awake.
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She has a lovely serene face.
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IN the evening this surprising heavy tempest passed off, we had a serene sky and a pleasant cool night; having had time enough to collect a great quantity of wood and Pine knots to feed our fires and keep up a light in our camp, which was a lucky precaution, as we found it absolutely necessary to dry our clothes and warm ourselves, for all our skins and bedding were cast over the packs of merchandize to prevent them and our provision from being injured by the deluge of rain; next day was cool and pleasant, the air having recovered its elasticity and vivific spirit; I found myself cheerful and invigorated; indeed all around us appeared reanimated, and nature presents her cheerful countenance; the vegetables smile in their blooming decorations and sparkling crystaline dew-drop.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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The sunset lingered in golden glory over the distant Mexican mountains; twilight came slowly; a faint breeze blew from the river cool and sweet; the late cooing of a dove and the tinkle of a cowbell were the only sounds; a serene and tranquil peace lay over the valley.
The Lone Star Ranger
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But ischemic/hypoxic patients, if conscious, are confused, agitated and amnestic, not calm and serene.
Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul?
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Looking back acrothe years, we come to realize that it takes many birthdays to make us kind and wise. Growing older only means the spirit grows serene. Happy birthday!
