Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tranquil life may be gone forever. "Their daughter came to visit us last Christmas," says Jean. "I remember her talking about how much her father was looking forward to retiring in December." Jean doesn't bother to ask what will happen to those plans...
Life was not always so tranquil at the University's most recently completed construction project, located in the Harvard-owned Botanic Gardens apartment complex one block beyond the Quad...
...allegories of virtue at all, he certainly didn't try to shove them down the viewer's throat. His morality was all sympathy; he wasn't in any direct way a preacher. But in a time and place that put the strongest emphasis on the idea of the ordered, tranquil family as the basis of a just society, his visions of domesticity had a distinct symbolic point. Disorder, in the real world outside or the formal one inside his paintings, repelled him. Everything in his interiors is swept, garnished. De Hooch epitomizes the Dutch obsession with cleanliness, which...
Richard Wright says in How Bigger Was Born that "the environment supplies the instrumentalities through which the organism express itself, and if that environment is warped or tranquil, the mode and manner of behavior will be affected toward deadlocking tensions or orderly fulfillment and satisfaction...
When Golden State stopped being a pleasant basketball experience--Sprewell twice grappled physically with teammates and was bitter about the changing composition of the team--his environment turned from tranquil to warped...