Word: tranquillizing
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...18th century. Lugging oils through the vales of Kent or the gorges of Switzerland was messy, and watercolor-carried dry, in little pans-was the solution. The sheer convenience of watercolor-and its appeal to amateur and professional alike-was neatly expressed by Paul Sandby's tranquil view of Rosslyn Castle, North Berwick, with an aristocratic-looking lady on the riverbank painting with the aid of a camera lucida...
...SMALL sense of deprivation often nags Americans visiting abroad. They note the frequency of London's shiny red double-decker buses, the scrubbed-clean streets of Paris and the tranquil, carefully manicured parks of Frankfurt. At a time when public services in the U.S. are in such a mess, Americans wonder how the Europeans manage to do so well...
...dictated by geography. It is a passionate, varied land, strongly suggestive, capable of forcing a man to a course of action he might never have realized alone. So with the hoards of disappointed. Some stumbled into a rough port surging up and down hills overlooking a beautiful bay. The tranquil sweep of water had a civilizing effect, and in the aftermath of earthquake, the community drew solidly together: out of the wreckage of the Barbary Coast grew a city sophisticated by disaster, as elegant and corrupt as the lost metropolises of the East. Others, wandering into the rich central valleys...
...seat capacity Felt Forum better described, perhaps, as a one ring circus, hip and not so hip students and New Yorkers hustled to their seats. Remarked one girl completely lost, "Are you kidding?-- I feel like I'm in a gymnasium." A subdued audience embodying the air of tranquil expectancy and guarded reverence typical of poetry readings this...
Woodstock, Vt., is the very model of the picturesque New England country town. It has a tranquil village green, stately brick and stone houses, and a postcard vista of the ski slopes in the adjoining hills. So it is only natural that outside investors (notably Laurance Rockefeller) have bought property there, and that the population of 1,150 includes a sizable proportion of writers, artists and wealthy exurbanites...