(a.) Calm; placid; undisturbed; unruffled; as, a serene aspect; a serene soul.
(n.) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
(n.) Evening air; night chill.
(v. t.) To make serene.
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.
Solace
Definition:
(v. t.) Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
(v. t.) Rest; relaxation; ease.
(n.) To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.
(n.) To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.
(v. i.) To take comfort; to be cheered.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) "We gain a little solace from the fact that the high point in Jo's life was her graduation in November when her life was 'perfect'.
(3) That Tsipras felt the need to travel to St Petersburg and seek solace in a meeting with Putin says a lot about this alliance of the aggrieved.
(4) That solace, however, is hard to sustain when a new veil of secrecy is about to be thrown over another element of state power.
(5) Perhaps that is what Sherwood requires to remain in post, but some solace for Tottenham is that they jumped back above Manchester United into sixth place.
(6) In the midday sun, young women and girls around Accra’s Makola market take a break from walking the streets carrying their wares to seek solace under the shade of a tree, napping with their babies in their laps.
(7) Fans of the character should therefore take some solace from McWeeny's gushing review of Man of Steel .
(8) Since his passing, all of us who loved Robin have found some solace in the tremendous outpouring of affection and admiration for him from the millions of people whose lives he touched.
(9) Although Cognitive Self-Control was unrelated to either concurrent or future depression, Solace Seeking significantly buffered the effect of stress in predicting a future diagnosis of depression.
(10) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(11) He was tempted back then, he has said, as Left and Right alike heaped scorn on him for his unstatesmanlike choice of clothing, to seek solace in one of his favourite quotes from Thoreau: 'Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes.'
(12) In describing what so many of us seek in a perfect pub – solace, authenticity and a very real kind of community – he wrote a manifesto that lives down the ages.
(13) After the election, liberal friends drew solace in a shared Facebook story claiming that Barack Obama had somehow saved them from the worst of a Trump administration by permanently protecting the right to an abortion – sadly glossing over the all-important role of the supreme court in such matters.
(14) Some wrote that the letter provides “solace and acceptance” to other victims of violent assault, while former Catholic Herald editor Cristina Odone described it as an “extraordinary lesson in courage from a 20-year-old Oxford undergrad”.
(15) Whereas the panic disorder group used significantly more (p less than 0.001) solacing objects, activities and sounds than normals, the alexithymic subjects used significantly fewer self-solacing strategies (p less than 0.001).
(16) Perhaps he and the many other Chinese dissidents detained in 2014 would find some solace in Ma’s words: “Today is cruel,” the entrepreneur famously said in 2004 .
(17) Growing up on the Norris Green council estate in Liverpool, Duggan, who is now 41, was bullied at home and at school – "I was probably just a bit too sensitive and effeminate for my own good" – and he found solace in the Smiths, particularly in their first couple of albums, when he was 14 or 15.
(18) A sign of solace may have come on Wednesday, when Greece made a €200m repayment to the International Monetary Fund , ahead of a meeting of the eurozone finance ministers on Monday – although this doesn’t mean a breakthrough is imminent.
(19) Sertanejo – Brazilian country music – is king in this area, yet its inhabitants are seeking solace from accordion-led country-pop with power-rock trio Macaco Bong.
(20) I tried to take solace in the fact that he appeared to have managed to escape more or less intact from showbusiness.