Starting at 5:15, the normally serene estate will come alive with "sword-play, madrigals, acrobatics, wandering minstrels, a hurdy-gurdy man and fire jugglers."

A normally serene scholar of Islam named Abdulrahman Abuzayd, who believes passionately in the wisdom of his religion and its values, is furious at the United States.

Queen Selenay, normally serene in the face of any crisis, had reacted to the attack on her eldest child with atypical hysteria.

For the second year in a row, this normally serene university town at the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains is embroiled in a dispute over holiday symbols.

She raised her face to look at him, her normally serene features stricken.

Normally serene of manner and countenance almost to the point of apathy, she spoke to Kirk now with what was for her an alarming degree of agitation.

Acorna's normally serene aunt was clearly so taken aback she'd shouted without meaning to.

Every year around mid-September about 3,000 runners invade the normally serene village to take part in a 10-kilometer run sponsored by the Cowharbor Race Committee.

There is none of the normally serene and rather austere atmosphere of the school, which is on the third floor of the Juilliard School building at Lincoln Center.

Those concerns have recently been expressed even at the level of China's normally serene and confident-sounding senior officials.