serenity
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Doctors talk about la belle indifférence, a state of reality-denying serenity that some patients enter while experiencing serious medical symptoms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
But fame and fortune did not affect her remarkable originality, which she once attributed to the "serenity of the soul" that comes from spending time alone.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The city allows Rohl to enjoy some anonymity and serenity after his whirlwind year, at least for now.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Witnessing the beauty, serenity and unrelenting force of nature through their eyes has helped ground me in a chaotic world.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
There’s no serenity, for instance, none at all, no closeness to God.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
For the serenities of the countess, Katharine Cornell's personal graciousness is more in accord.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is particularly effective with modern music, with which Bernstein has had consistent success, and whose complex rhythms he feels perhaps more deeply than he feels the serenities of the classics.
From Time Magazine Archive
No sound of its roaring haste comes up to those serenities.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Had he been reared in the country, with only the changing seasons and the sweet serenities of nature to occupy his attention when released from study, he would certainly have been a different poet.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
As he spoke, he remembered that night of the eclipse—oh, those moon-washed depths, those stupendous serenities of Law and Beauty which, together, are Truth!
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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