The other rafts go first - drifting serenely through the calm reflections of a wooded islet.

They are able to step outside themselves and assess a troubling situation with calm reflection.

Ms. Greenfield, now eight months pregnant with her first child, seems little given to moments of calm reflection.

At that point he was jolted away from his calm reflections.

And then almost as rapidly as she had flown into rage, she receded into calm reflection.

After the summit failure, the immediate need was for a period of calm reflection by Member State governments and EU institutions.

Let us also open up a period of calm reflection in which we seek out points of agreement on future policy regarding Cuba.

There are also many boutiques and a nine-hole golf course, but very little of what Brazilians call sossego' - peace, quiet and calm reflection.

But on calmer reflection he realized that there was no certainty of that.

Steadying his thoughts by a few moments of calm reflection, he remembered what he had in charge to do, .