respite

In the courtyard outside the museum, we enjoyed a peaceful respite from the street performers and tour groups crowding the Royal Mile.

The inflation number and gilt rate falls offer the chance of some respite, for a break in the circle of doom.

Back then, they fell out after a couple of weeks, not to return…for, um, a brief respite of 78 years.

His respite, however, was uncannily timed to an onslaught of criticism after CNN revealed that the show’s longtime top writer had been secretly posting vile and hateful comments on the internet for years.

It was just a momentary respite from reviewing game video, several hours left to go before he could finally head home.