serenity

One can appreciate the contrast between the serenity of the brothers at the stake, heads raised in prayer, and the frantic, distressed attempts by the surrounding figures to evade the flames.

For her, karate is a way to "release emotions" and "bring serenity during stressful times", even though it was long frowned upon for women to practise the sport in Iran.

The film rarely grants him this kind of serenity, and that’s why the scene hits so hard: the first thing to make him feel human is something as humble as bread in the sun.

There are many sculpted faces and heads, often with eyes closed, whose titles—“Sweet Peace,” “In My Stillness,” “Grace”—echo the serenity of their subjects.

“A sense of calm and serenity was probably a very important implicit priority,” Hamilton says.