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  • God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.   (source)
    serenity = peace and calm
  • I described the serenity of the park,   (source)
    serenity = peaceful calmness
  • And yet, there's a serenity in his face, a sense of something that's survived its own ruin.   (source)
    serenity = untroubled peacefulness and calm
  • Now the sea was a serene blue, deep and dark.   (source)
    serene = calm and untroubled
  • The serene look on Aunt Pearl's face calmed him at first, then made him angrier. Sometimes you'd think she was deaf, dumb, and blind, he thought.   (source)
  • My mask of serenity and...   (source)
    serenity = untroubled calmness
  • He was a lean, happy, excitable man who had turned out to be calm and serene in combat.   (source)
    serene = calm and untroubled
  • Her face is serene in the early morning sunlight.   (source)
  • He was stretched out on his back, looking serene.   (source)
  • when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows   (source)
    serenity = untroubled calm
  • like a flash of lightning in a serene sky   (source)
    serene = calm
  • In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.   (source)
    serene = calm and untroubled
  • Beth's face, serene and smiling, as in the early days, looked down upon them, seeming to say, "Be happy."   (source)
  • looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied face,   (source)
  • He was waltzing while the rest of us hopped a jig; he was deaf to the raucous music of our lives, and we were deaf to the serene polyphony of his.†   (source)
  • Chase motioned her north past Barkley Cove—the village serene and colorful in the distance—and landed on the beach of a small bay tucked in deep forest.†   (source)
  • It was then that any impression of serenity was violently interrupted, for his voice was brimming with rage.†   (source)
  • The picture she liked best was of the fourth mayor, Jane Larket, who had a serene smile and fuzzy black hair.†   (source)
  • The circle filled in with the unlucky twelve-to-eighteens, and then Patrick started us out with the serenity prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.†   (source)
  • The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series.†   (source)
  • All things at Happy Jack are serene and gracious—but this moment is the exception to the rule.†   (source)
  • She was smiling serenely.†   (source)
  • He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.†   (source)
  • Standing with his frantic mother as the train rolled backward in search of the lost boy, Louie's older brother, Pete, spotted Louie strolling up the track in perfect serenity.†   (source)
  • When it was gone, he felt that he had become someone else, that the Edgar who had split away that first morning after the rain had at last returned, and in that new state, as that new person, he believed Almondine had acted unforgivably, her pose so lovely and serene, completing that homely tableau as if Claude belonged right where he stood, when in fact he belonged anywhere else.†   (source)
  • Peter has a serene look on his face, like he is a fishing-boat captain and we are floating placidly along in the middle of the sea.†   (source)
  • Rather, he exhibited the same smile, at once wistful and serene, that he had exhibited upon seeing the overgrown road.†   (source)
  • She regularly recited the Serenity Prayer, a staple of addiction circles in which the faithful ask God for the "serenity to accept the things [they) cannot change."†   (source)
  • He looked more serene than he appeared at the bottom of the stairs.†   (source)
  • A Hindu upbringing and a Baptist education had precisely cancelled each other out as far as religion was concerned and had left her serenely impious.†   (source)
  • Viewed as more sterile and serene, lethal injection had become the most common method for the sanctioned killing of people in virtually every death state.†   (source)
  • In front of us, just visible above the wall, the castle sat, floodlit under the full moon, gazing serenely down from its position on the top of the hill.†   (source)
  • They lick along the floor, then rise to the ceiling, glowing strangely, serenely.†   (source)
  • Her face was serene, and peaceful.†   (source)
  • I think what a wonderful place this is to come to and escape from everything, to just cool out and relax and enjoy the serenity.†   (source)
  • She smiled her serene smile.†   (source)
  • Her mother, clearly, was serene and unruffled, and her voice carried the strength of truth.†   (source)
  • Jared's face was serene, unlined, his hands resting patiently and unmoving in his ample lap.†   (source)
  • She was serenity.†   (source)
  • He was all the things he had told me—restless, fearful, torn between what he would have called American greed and Oriental serenity.†   (source)
  • With her waterfall of white-blond hair and her clear blue eyes, she had always reminded Josie of a magical fairy-the serene, heavenly creature that floats down to grant someone's wishes.†   (source)
  • And although Owen was prepared for an angel, he might have expected that even the Angel of Death would reappear in a serene fashion.†   (source)
  • The vision of lying serenely on a bed of fire under palm trees in my white sari had motivated all the weeks of sleepless, half-starved passage, the numbed surrender to various men for the reward of an orange, a blanket, a slice of cheese.†   (source)
  • Serene.†   (source)
  • His expression is serene.†   (source)
  • Within five minutes I was half-asleep in the grass, smiling like a dope, wondering serenely what might be on the menu for lunch.†   (source)
  • She floated, serene and at peace, on a black sea that knew no shore.†   (source)
  • Only a hundred yards away, inside the thick walls of St. Peter's Basilica, the world was serene.†   (source)
  • Phineas just walked serenely on, or rather flowed on, rolling forward in his white sneakers with such unthinking unity of movement that "walk" didn't describe it.†   (source)
  • The last section of the Bridge, the one connecting West Archeon to the rest of the city, seems serene.†   (source)
  • A gong sounded, and the Moon Lady bowed her head and looked serenely to the side.†   (source)
  • Why expect one woman to carry out all the functions necessary to the serene running of a household?†   (source)
  • She was surprised at how serene she felt, and just a little sad.†   (source)
  • John, his peace, serenity, reason.†   (source)
  • The cause of all the commotion sat serenely, his rapt, innocent gaze never straying from the minister's face, his hand still cupped over the imprisoned fly.†   (source)
  • For half a step, New Beijing Palace could be glimpsed between complexes, sprawling and serene on the cliff that overlooked the city.†   (source)
  • A serene crocodile.†   (source)
  • Where the mothership sails serenely across the sky.†   (source)
  • "Well, I'm not going," said Boris serenely.†   (source)
  • He misses her serene, calm nature, how much she would cry and giggle, how simple she is.†   (source)
  • Before I can respond she releases me, and as she pulls away, her face is as serene and beautiful and composed as ever.†   (source)
  • His eyes are tired and red but in them I see relief, a sense of serenity as though he knows it's all about to end.†   (source)
  • He rested his hand on its shoulder and tried to radiate peace and serenity.†   (source)
  • In times of action her face took on a sudden new composure, almost serene, the fuzzy blue eyes narrowing into a tight, intelligent focus.†   (source)
  • Most still wore their painted-face portraits, and the effect was gruesome—lifelike masks smiling serenely at the top of undead scarecrows of bones and painted linen.†   (source)
  • Alyss saw it all as if through a watery film, and despite the mortal threat she and the Alyssians were facing, despite the uncertainty of everything, she felt almost serene as she drifted down into the Looking Glass Maze.†   (source)
  • Eighty-six days and his hands were still, waiting serenely each rat-rustling night for "Hiiii!" at dawn and the eager clench on the hammer's shaft.†   (source)
  • He jerked backward, landed on his back, flipped around, and gazed up at me with the serene expression of a heroin addict who had just gotten his fix.†   (source)
  • And what was more, his features were so smooth and serene, I had the feeling he'd go on standing there calmly until I wasn't unhappy any longer.†   (source)
  • I settled into outlining a rough draft contentedly, more serene than I'd felt since...well, since Thursday afternoon, if I was being honest.†   (source)
  • This occurred during the Renaissance in Europe, but when Western and Oriental art encountered each other in the1700s, Japanese artists and their audiences were serenely untroubled by the lack of perspective in their painting.†   (source)
  • The sun is out all day, and the nights are cool and serene.†   (source)
  • "Citizen Breq Mianaai," Station said again, from the console, voice as smooth and serene as ever, but I thought the repetition was slightly malicious.†   (source)
  • The single note, high-pitched and serene, hung vibrating on the air and then the Yggdrasill began to crack.†   (source)
  • "Thank You," Betsie went on serenely, "for the fleas and for—" The fleas!†   (source)
  • We were warned to expect rain in October, but at the close of July—surprising no one in Kilanga but ourselves—the serene heavens above began to dump buckets.†   (source)
  • But natives did labor alongside migrants on the work sites, usually as supervisors or as operators of heavy machinery, giant vehicles that resembled mechanized dinosaurs and would lift vast amounts of earth or roll flat hot strips of paving or churn concrete with the slow serenity of a masticating cow.†   (source)
  • But philosophy was also moving increasingly in the direction of "salvation" and serenity.†   (source)
  • The vampire shook his head in consternation, but his face was still serene.†   (source)
  • Jace's profile in the moonlight was serene.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Yorraty's picture window glittered serenely in the fresh nine o'clock glow of morning.†   (source)
  • The family jokingly said that she was the only normal person for many generations, and it was true she was a miracle of equilibrium and serenity.†   (source)
  • Alyah was a beautiful child with long, thin fingers, perfectly formed little lips, and for an infant, an improbably serene demeanor.†   (source)
  • Her serenity encouraged me to know that she was at peace and ready to accept whatever happened.†   (source)
  • With the same serenity she opposed a vigil in the Cathedral, which the Archbishop himself had requested, and she agreed to the body's lying there only during the funeral Mass.†   (source)
  • It was a moment of serenity, lasting only as long as my sigh of relief.†   (source)
  • A serene, almost religious smile lit up the woman's face.†   (source)
  • There was a serene blue sky overhead, and pure white clouds that seemed a million miles away from flames and smoke.†   (source)
  • Idaho's dark round face turned toward Paul, the cave-sitter eyes giving no hint of recognition, but Paul recognized the mask of serenity over excitement.†   (source)
  • Our minds were so polluted by city life that we needed all this space and serenity to find ourselves.†   (source)
  • I felt an odd serenity that Dad had died without my even being aware of it.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she even caught herself thinking that if she could be more like Kay, more serene and secure, her marriage might improve; she and David might be happier.†   (source)
  • The school occupies an ever serene edge of the townscape, semidetached, more or less scenic, suspended in political calm.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were closed and her face serene as if she didn't mind at all the snaking coils of plastic tube that had invaded her body.†   (source)
  • From a distance, the mountain appears beautiful and serene, dotted with rocky outcroppings, scrub oak, and ponderosa pine.†   (source)
  • Yet Meena was serene as she walked about the streets.†   (source)
  • Her face was serene, almost angelic, and somehow reminded him of the way Pastor Harris looked after his walks on the beach.†   (source)
  • And as she moved it was like a little bubble of serenity moved with her.†   (source)
  • I could see how those eyes would stay serene, beautiful, concealing the kind of restlessness and recklessness so evident tonight.†   (source)
  • So I get on the tube feeling serene and impervious, like a Buddhist monk.†   (source)
  • For however extreme the inward rage, outwardly Perry remained a cool young tough, with eyes serene and slightly sleepy.†   (source)
  • As he left the room, I looked down at the picture again, and at the girl in the center, noticing how serene and happy she looked surrounded by all those people.†   (source)
  • The child dozed, the dream having passed, her face serene once more.†   (source)
  • It appeared to be moving and sparkling, yet still and serene at the same time.†   (source)
  • I smile serenely as he wheels me right up to the ring curb.†   (source)
  • Smiling serenely, he asked, in the melody of Beethoven's motif,Muss es sein?†   (source)
  • I thought we were en route to an emergency hospital, and so with serenity I made plans for my death and will.†   (source)
  • Then she smiled at him serenely, squeezed his hand and, with a whispered regretful 'Addio,' pressed herself against him for a moment and then straightened and walked away with unconscious dignity and grace.†   (source)
  • Miss Awolowo was serene.†   (source)
  • Her faith in Allah was firm, bolstered by the serene thought that even if Allah did allow her to be blasted away by the Iraqi Air Force, there was no more glorious death than martyrdom in holy war.†   (source)
  • There had been nothing to do in Oklahoma City either, but there the surroundings were spotless and serene, with about ten times as much space.†   (source)
  • The president walks purposefully through the serenity of the White House Rose Garden, even as the Cuban exiles comprising Brigade 2506 are in grave danger, pinned down on a remote stretch of sand in Cuba.†   (source)
  • His bandaged back moves up and down serenely, just as it's been doing for the last two days.†   (source)
  • Admirers saw strength of mind in the high, bald forehead, strength of character in the "robust" neck, unshakable serenity in the slight smile.†   (source)
  • Below us, Angel dropped the metal bar and zipped upward, streaming like a comet, her small face serene and beautiful.†   (source)
  • Trailed by dozens of cats, Ordo Maas and his sons led the companions to the northern part of the island, where a great frigate was floating serenely in a small harbor.†   (source)
  • If it was up to him, he would give him everything—sun and moon, eternal happiness, serene and uncomplicated, Here, will this fix it?†   (source)
  • Mr. Mompellion climbed the pulpit steps, and instead of the frown that had creased his brow all week, his face that morning looked serene.†   (source)
  • Under the cold blue sky, it sat serenely, warmly, with a few brave crocuses beginning to peep out of the winter stung grass.†   (source)
  • Michal stared ahead, regarding the scene serenely.†   (source)
  • Hearts at once human and divine, looming bloodred and out of scale from the open chests of figures who gazed with odd serenity from the large paintings in the Bradleys' household.†   (source)
  • I gave in to the weight of my body, collapsing onto the glass-filled serenity of the floor.†   (source)
  • Throughout Abdul's performance Ali's face remained serenely disengaged.†   (source)
  • They'll want me to be brilliant and serene, like Father.†   (source)
  • It was as if he were contemplating that serene mountain landscape Einstein had described, and suddenly between the mountains had appeared a fissure, a gap of pure nothing.†   (source)
  • It was exhausting-as though I had held my breath continuously for an hour under the terrifying serenity that comes from days of intense hunger.†   (source)
  • She was staring at the wall, a strange pensive serenity having come over her.†   (source)
  • Serene, somber expressions!†   (source)
  • Exercise dissipates tension, and tension is the enemy of serenity.†   (source)
  • With evening shadows, she could give a sense of serenity and continuity.†   (source)
  • He embodied the calm emotion and serenity that many players never attain at any age.†   (source)
  • "We will love her," Mum said serenely.†   (source)
  • She sat on a throne surrounded by gardenias, her face serene as a goddess's.†   (source)
  • In the dusk the lights of their houses were comforting and serenely yellow.†   (source)
  • Far above the rot and vapours of the world the Sun was riding high and golden now in a serene country with floors of dazzling foam, but only a passing ghost of her could they see below, bleared, pale, giving no colour and no warmth.†   (source)
  • She saw both serenity and suffering in the calm of his face, an expression like a smile of pain, though he was not smiling.†   (source)
  • I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.†   (source)
  • I tried to maintain a serene facade in the upstairs chamber, even as I agonized over my husband's safety.†   (source)
  • THE WORLD MAY HAVE BEEN falling apart but at Dr. O's office everything was serene.†   (source)
  • For us, as for everyone else, it looked like being a serene, if industrious, summer, and possibly it would have been so, but for Petra.†   (source)
  • This unusual balance of spirit and calm, of serenity and unbridled joy, intrigued Wulfgar and kept him off-balance whenever he spoke with the girl.†   (source)
  • The graceful pale-green curves of Sung Dynasty pottery, displayed on glass shelves, imposed serenity on the chamber.†   (source)
  • The men leaned their chins against the serene necks of the women, danced a waltz or two, slid oysters into their partner's mouths.†   (source)
  • They maintain a ....a firm-skinned serenity ....the under use of everything leaves them ....quite whole.†   (source)
  • She hugged him, her face right next to his, voice low and serene.†   (source)
  • You might hear a train in the distance every once in a while or see an airplane in the sky flying to New York or someplace else, but your sense of peace and serenity isn't disturbed by clutter.†   (source)
  • "Yes, of course," Nora said serenely.†   (source)
  • We went out and scanned the heavens, clear and beautiful, deadly beautiful, not one cloud to mar its serenity.†   (source)
  • The blond woman, subject two, appeared catatonic with fear, but the dark-haired woman seemed curiously serene.†   (source)
  • The city of Charleston, in the green feathery modesty of its palms, in the certitude of its style, in the economy and stringency of its lines, and the serenity of its mansions South of Broad Street, is a feast for the human eye.†   (source)
  • For a while, as they walked, they seemed to carry in them a measure of contentment; some of the serenity and the cleanliness of that big warm kitchen lingered on inside them.†   (source)
  • You come out of serene country and suddenly you are tossed and battered by a howling hurricane of traffic.†   (source)
  • Yet to look at him now, in the twilit living room, gliding like a large bird in an updraft toward the sweating shakerful of booze, smiling out of his fat vortex ring's center, you'd think all was flat calm, gold, serene.†   (source)
  • Kali, night of destruction at Worldsend, who walketh the world by night, protectress, deceiver, serene one, loved and lovely, Brahmani, Mother of the Vedas, dweller in the silent and most secret places, well-omened, and gentle, all-knowing, swift as thought, wearer of skulls, possessed of power, the twilight, invincible leader, pitiful one, opener of the way before those lost, granter of favors, teacher, valor in the form of woman, chameleon-hearted, practitioner of austerities, magician, pariah, deathless and eternal ...Ã,ryatarabhattarikanamashtottarasatakastotra (36-40) From Hellwell to Heaven he went, there to commune with the gods.†   (source)
  • The gardens were a serene and blossoming oasis amid the swarm of a chaotic Babylon.†   (source)
  • KATE [ALMOST WISTFUL]: How—serene she is.†   (source)
  • He felt serene.†   (source)
  • I felt that Raymond was consciously following a code he had prescribed for himself, and the fact that he was following this code gave him his serenity.†   (source)
  • As a result, his feeling, still pulsing and warm, was gradually eliminated from his poems, and romantic morbidity yielded to a broad and serene vision that lifted the particular to the level of the universal and familiar.†   (source)
  • Serenely the curtain dilated, serenely failed.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Mr. Head's serene expression changed.†   (source)
  • Bowman averted his head and saw the woman looking serenely back at the mule, with only satisfaction in her face.†   (source)
  • Deborah was one of the serving-women, and though she did not speak, and despite his discomfort, he nearly burst each time she entered the room, with the pride he knew she felt to see him sitting there, so serene and manly, among all these celebrated others, in the severe black and white that was his uniform.†   (source)
  • She arose as gracefully as a dancer, as serenely as a somnambulist.†   (source)
  • By now he had persuaded himself into believing she was a practical, adaptable, serene person, who would need only a few weeks on the farm to become what he wanted her to be.†   (source)
  • There were two afternoons in the late fall when Judith was absent, returning at supper time serene and calm.   (source)
  • I know of those whose serene and wise speculations on this theme would soon reveal...   (source)
  • With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.   (source)
  • He had lost his fierce serenity.   (source)
    serenity = untroubled calm
  • "We'd like to talk to you," Edward said, so serene.†   (source)
  • She pictured him lying serenely on the beach, oblivious to all problems in the world.†   (source)
  • "Crake always watches over us," says Simone de Beauvoir serenely.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio Buendia serenely picked up his rooster.†   (source)
  • With a brief look at Nasuada's serene face, Eragon bowed and kneeled.†   (source)
  • Smiling serenely, Hermione placed the beetle back inside her schoolbag.†   (source)
  • "Carlisle's always fine with whatever I choose to do," Edward told him serenely.†   (source)
  • But I feel serene, at peace, pervaded with indifference.†   (source)
  • That must have been what alerted Jasper, why a fresh wave of serenity filled the car.†   (source)
  • Peter laughs, and I try to unpinch my face, to look serene.†   (source)
  • He would spin from serenity to raving madness in the blink of an eye, usually for no reason.†   (source)
  • Dad had built a home with an almost jarring serenity.†   (source)
  • But inwardly Hatsue felt no serenity; her calm was a practiced disguise.†   (source)
  • Tire away, then, Rita,' said Hermione serenely, fishing a cherry out from the bottom of her glass.†   (source)
  • The people put me here and the only way I'll leave is dead," he replied serenely.†   (source)
  • Nothing as serene and graceful as that vampire death you once described to me in Paris.†   (source)
  • He appeared surprisingly serene, his eyes lowered but his head held high.†   (source)
  • With her long black hair, fair skin, and dark blue eyes, she seemed serene beyond her years.†   (source)
  • He wanted to go serenely, and that is how he went.†   (source)
  • Very serene and even-tempered — very stable.†   (source)
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