All 6 Uses
serene
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Lost Horizon
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- It was so radiant, so serenely poised, that he wondered for a moment if it were real at all.†
Chpt 2 *serenely = in a manner that is calm and untroubled
- But the hint of life and liveliness in those veiled depths served only to emphasize the austere serenity of Shangri-La.†
Chpt 5serenity = untroubled calm
- And you are also, we will say, a man of good fellowship—does it not charm you to think of wise and serene friendships, a long and kindly traffic of the mind from which death may not call you away with his customary hurry?†
Chpt 8serene = calm and untroubled
- He remembered the night air icy after the heat of those upper rooms, and Chang's presence, a silent serenity, as they crossed the starlit courtyards together.†
Chpt 8serenity = untroubled calm
- He liked the serene world that Shangri-La offered him, pacified rather than dominated by its single tremendous idea.†
Chpt 10serene = calm and untroubled
- Conway agreed; he found it pleasant to realize that the serene purpose of Shangri-La could embrace an infinitude of odd and apparently trivial employments, for he had always had a taste for such things himself.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(serene) calm and untroubled
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)