Literary notes about Reposeful (AI summary)
The word “reposeful” is frequently used to convey a serene, unhurried quality in literature. It appears in descriptions of both physical settings and inner states—illustrating calm landscapes with gentle, quiet beauty as in a soft summer scene where nature itself seems to sleep ([1], [2]), or portraying human moods with a tranquil dignity, as when a character’s composed, thoughtful demeanor is highlighted ([3], [4]). It also bridges sensory impressions with emotional ones: a scene might be rendered more graceful and subtly alluring by its “reposeful” ambiance, whether in the quiet observation of a sphinx’s stance ([5]) or the understated elegance of a refined lifestyle ([6]). In each case, “reposeful” enriches the narrative by evoking an enduring, reflective calm.
- It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - The sunlight had left the tops of the hills; the river slept in the gathering grey shadows, soft, tranquil, reposeful.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner - Scattered about the boat, in dreamy and reposeful attitudes, lay five fellows, the man who was steering having a particularly restful appearance.
— from Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome - In proportion as her inward wounds closed, her grace and beauty blossomed once more on her countenance, but more thoughtful, more reposeful.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - On Egyptian monuments the sphinx never appears standing as in this fresco, but crouching in the attitude of reposeful observation.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan - The reposeful, easy, affluent life to which her mother's marriage had introduced her was, in truth, the beginning of a great change in Elizabeth.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
