(1) I think people are where I am, which is, yeah, a Eurosceptic position – but not a Euro exit position.” McDonnell added: “I think a period of quietude from the likes of Cameron and Osborne and others would be helpful.
(2) In other instances, intracranial microinjections of angiotensin II were followed by quietude or e.e.g.
(3) Of course, you will depend on the Cipfa council's appetite for risk, and sometimes in the past their instinct for municipal quietude has been strong.
(4) I know some people look down on my quietude, but I feel it would impact my ability to be an artist.
(5) Douce Quietude is one of the better sites in Provence, lively but not too raucous and with a great location in the hills above the seaside town of Saint-Raphaël, and a 10 minute-drive from the lovely beach at Agay.
(6) There is a lovely quietude to it all making for a brilliant acoustic tribute to a piece of history."
(7) Starting with the ousting of Mubarak, they have sacrificed successive prime ministers and presidents, invited conservative rivals to enter the establishment and help reseal its walls, disingenuously adopted the language of revolution in an effort to sap the strength of protesters, and unleashed waves of terror to subdue Egypt’s population back into quietude.
(8) Holliday also dismissed fears that the UK's electricity grid could be vulnerable to solar storms , as the Sun's activity reaches a new maximum after years of quietude.
Serenity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace.
(n.) Calmness of mind; eveness of temper; undisturbed state; coolness; composure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(2) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
(3) As to Beyoncé herself, Hamilton had nothing but praise: "She is a very smart, serene lady … utterly charming and focused."
(4) In the end, after a life of serial duplicity, innocent and otherwise, he found serenity.
(5) The life of this once serene and resilient woman has been wrecked.
(6) To Mogulof, Mayer almost believed she could charm the Nazis the way she had once-hypnotized her homeland: The ability to endure suffering while showing a serene and confident face came from years of managing a celebrity status.
(7) Here, it’s easy to make yourself comfortable in the sweet, slightly whimsical bedrooms that open onto a serene, tree-filled courtyard.
(8) Then followed a serene procession of coaches towards a distant detention camp in north-west Turkey, as watching residents expressed relief that no refugees would be settled in their pretty seaside town.
(9) Chelsea’s progress into the knockout phase proved serene to the last.
(10) "), or Mrs Wilfer, after placing Bella in the magnificent coach of the Boffins, continuing to "air herself … in a kind of splendidly serene trance on the top step" for the benefit of the neighbours.
(11) But the serene image masks a politician who has spent much time as chancellor consolidating her place in the CDU, removing rivals and forcing others out.
(12) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(13) For two serene months after Donald Trump announced in March that he was forming a presidential exploratory committee, he failed to register in national political polls.
(14) I'm still serene because I'm sure we will have a chance to be judged on the facts.
(15) Guests, who included Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, said the serenity encouraged candidness and conviviality.
(16) 'I greet the year 1968 with serenity,' he announced, brimming with self-satisfaction.
(17) There’s no bitterness or vitriol on show here, musically at least, with Bowman’s laidback vocals gliding serenely over a juddering, stop-start beat that eventually disintegrates.
(18) Working for nothing and reliant on his family, Niemeyer transformed the Corbusier scheme into the serene, high-rise building that adorns Rio today.
(19) He says that drugs are being used “to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and peaceful – like something any one of us might experience in our final moments … But executions are, in fact, nothing like that.
(20) Manchester City and Chelsea have been comparatively serene in, unlike Arsenal and United, completing much of their transfer business.