All 4 Uses of
serene
in
Of Human Bondage
- Such of the students as had been to a university kept a good deal together: they used a variety of means natural to the young in order to impress upon the less fortunate a proper sense of their inferiority; the rest of the students found their Olympian serenity rather hard to bear.†
Chpt 55-56serenity = untroubled calm
- Philip was astonished, for there was a change in him, an extraordinary change; his eyes had no longer the terror-stricken look, and the pinching of his face had gone: he looked happy and serene.†
Chpt 111-112serene = calm and untroubled
- Sally attended to her business with serene competence and she accepted placidly the silence which to him was so embarrassing.†
Chpt 119-120
- The serenity of her expression was altered by a slight line between the eyebrows: it was the beginning of a frown.†
Chpt 121-122 *serenity = untroubled calm