These are my recommendations for restaurants that cheerfully maintain the illusion, providing a mini-vacation, a quiet, old-fashioned respite from the speed and bustle of modern life.

Neither had spoken much since that time, both choosing to preserve the quiet respite.

The lush green fields and date trees offer a quiet respite from the bustle of the city.

The classical Japanese gardens of Kyoto provide a quiet respite from the futuristic fantasyland of Expo '90.

And any good attorney does that if it's going to be his or her witness, in their own confidences, in their own quiet respite.

Now even the afternoon flight home from an out-of-town meeting, a quiet respite in the sky from the tumult of information below, may have its own hourly newspaper.

Some of the inland villages stood still in time and were quiet and peaceful respites from the glamour of the coastal resorts.

For most girls this would be a quiet respite of a game, but for Ana it is a struggle.

In an anxious time in an often frantic city, Poets House offers a quiet respite, a place to elevate the spirit.

Booksellers provides a quiet respite on the busy thoroughfare.