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Tranquillity in sentence

75 examples of Tranquillity in a sentence

They will live in peace and tranquillity; they will calmly go about their business away from those mean old city streets.
This is a masterful piece of film-making, with many themes simmering and occasionally boiling over in this warts and all study of the poet's bohemian, self-indulgent wartime years that span the aerial bombardments of London and the outward tranquillity of a Welsh coastal retreat - the borderlines between friendship, lust and love, dedication to art and experience versus practical concerns, jealousy, rivalry, cowardice and egotism versus heroism and self-sacrifice and more.
Red Dawn starts like any other day in a small Colorado town, however the normal tranquillity is soon shattered when Russian soldiers parachute out of the sky & start killing everyone.
The Russia he envisions will be a great power once more, but great in the ways that a truly modern society must be: in its democratic commitments, its economy, and its domestic tranquillity.
The doctor explained her illness as the result of fatigue and agitation, and ordered mental tranquillity.
She fully succeeded in playing that role – of external tranquillity.
He was glad the hostility between Vronsky and himself was ended, and the impression of tranquillity, decorum, and pleasure did not leave him.
The tranquillity with which she extended to him her energetic little hand, introduced him to Vorkuyev and, indicating a pretty red-haired child who sat in the same room doing needlework, spoke of her as her ward, showed the manners (familiar and pleasant to Levin) of a woman of good society, always self-possessed and natural.
After being so lovely in its tranquillity, her face suddenly expressed a strange curiosity, anger, and pride.
'Definiteness depends not on forms, but on love,' she said, growing more and more irritated not at his words but at the tone of cool tranquillity with which he spoke.
Reality had temporarily veiled the spiritual tranquillity he had found, but it remained with him.
Now, on the contrary, the feelings of joy and tranquillity were more vivid than before and his thoughts could not keep pace with them.
Bouteloup, with the tranquillity of a man who is at home, searched about on the dresser for bread.
Never more noise than this, patriarchal manners, all happy and well off as you see, a place where you might come to recruit a little, on account of the good air and the tranquillity."
At once he lost his childlike tranquillity, his serene unconsciousness.
Now she talked with tranquillity of her dead, of her man, of Zacharie, of Catherine; and tears only came into her eyes when she uttered Alzire's name.
The last word painted his whole position for him in glowing colours, and restored some degree of tranquillity to his heart.
'My happiness, my tranquillity are at stake.'
For some time the two rode in silence, when Lawton, perceiving that his companion's temper was somewhat ruffled by his disappointments and Betty's attack, made an effort to restore the tranquillity of his feelings.
I lived with this husband with the utmost tranquillity; he was a quiet, sensible, sober man; virtuous, modest, sincere, and in his business diligent and just.
Nor was this all; for though by this job I was become considerably richer than before, yet the resolution I had formerly taken, of leaving off this horrid trade when I had gotten a little more, did not return, but I must still get farther, and more; and the avarice joined so with the success, that I had no more thought of coming to a timely alteration of life, though without it I could expect no safety, no tranquillity in the possession of what I had so wickedly gained; but a little more, and a little more, was the case still.
She possessed supreme composure, and an apparent tranquillity that masked terrible transports.
He kissed her as he kissed his mother, by habit, without losing any of his egotistic tranquillity.
The following day, when the young couple came downstairs, Camille had still his sickly languidness, his righteous tranquillity of an egotist.
They lived quite at ease in their new situation, with a tranquillity and an independence that were perfect.
Madame Raquin, with placid countenance, contributed her peacefulness to the tranquillity of the scene, which resembled a gathering of old friends who knew one another to the heart, and who confidently relied on the faith of their friendship.
A year before, he would have burst into laughter, had he been told he would become the slave of a woman, to the point of risking his tranquillity.
Madame Raquin and Camille considered this a long way to go, and thought it doubtful whether the journey would have a satisfactory result; but they expressed no surprise, and allowed Therese to set out on her errand in all tranquillity.
He was too cowardly, too voluptuous to risk his tranquillity.
Otherwise, he still maintained his obtuse tranquillity, he looked Camille in the face, and showed him the same frank friendship.
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