How To Use Bucolic In A Sentence

Far from the bucolic paradise of popular myth, with lowing herds winding slowly o'er the lea, modern farms have as much romance as a widget factory.
An earlier essay by Ms. Wu, titled ‘Cherishing a Faraway Place,’ recalled her rural upbringing and struck a bucolic tone about the simple, honest values of the peasantry.
The scenes are bucolic pastorals of peasant and aristocratic life during the period.
The painting shows a typically bucolic scene with peasants harvesting crops in a field.
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishops Lacy are overand then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley: Book summary

In the US, however, the European pastoral ideal, rooted in Virgil's bucolic visions of an unchanging Arcadia of shepherds and shepherdesses, has been transmuted by the capitalistic impetus.
In three days' time the bucolic town of Bunol will burst into life for its annual tomato-throwing frenzy as 30,000 fruit-wielding revellers paint the pueblo red for La Tomatina, one of Spain's most exuberant fiestas.
You portray the bucolic aspects of small-town life, and this idealized family, then slowly reveal the dark underside of such a life.
There is no question of destroying hedgerows or bucolic woodland. Times, Sunday Times
She altered the composition by shifting the house to the right and filling in the left with a bucolic scene of a shepherd and shepherdess with a small flock of sheep.
The economics of the bucolic dream no longer stack up. Times, Sunday Times
Then came the alcoholic years — mostly blurs but yet poems by the cartload from such phrases as the soul cried tears of blood to bucolic ramblings, usually ending with holes in the paper from frustrated pounding of pen or pencil. January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Astley's is a kind of semi-ruined pastoral, a bucolic summer-hazed delirium shadowed by mumbling disquiet, in which mechanically-iterated found sounds are put into concert with an oneiric chamber music.
Lanning refuses to elaborate about the horrors he must have seen, but instead recounts the beauty he found in Paris and the bucolic countryside seen on his march to Germany.
Family doctor and friend, Good Old George has forsworn his practice due to retirement, is a widower and now lives in bucolic bliss in the country.
They followed the classic journey from a high-octane career in the capital to a second act in more bucolic surroundings. Times, Sunday Times
The result is a complex mix of ancient Greek bucolics (pastoral poetry), the natural history of northern Italy, and the harsh realities of contemporary Roman politics.
Mr. Boal's action and dance additions, duly spelled out in the program's scene-by-scene chart, vary and at times jar: The opening, with the village children gamboling into view, looks more like a free-time ballet-class romp than the playful bucolic vignette. From the Northwest Emerges a New 'Giselle'
Thomas begins with recent neo-Kantian studies of the aesthetics of melancholy, and applies these ideas to a number of case studies, chiefly the bucolics of Virgil, the eclogues of Miklós Radnóti, and the utopian lyrics and music of Bob Dylan.
The Greek Nine are: Clio, muse of history; Thalia, muse of comedy and bucolic poetry; Terpsichore, muse of dance; Euterpe, muse of lyric song; Polyhymnia, muse of sacred song; Calliope, muse of epic song; Erato, muse of erotic poetry; Urania, muse of astronomy; Melpomene, muse of tragedy. Muses Through the Years
In fact, despite its urban setting, the boat had a way of encouraging flights of bucolic fantasy. Times, Sunday Times
All over the city, the authorities have put up large billboards featuring bucolic scenes of date palms arched over a river bank.
“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.” The Monastery
People forget that Sand Hill Road, despite its bucolic and peaceful exteriors, is as competitive as any trading floor. Marc Ruxin: The Social Network and the Real Social Network
Far from the bucolic paradise of popular myth, with lowing herds winding slowly o'er the lea, modern farms have as much romance as a widget factory.
And while she admits there are few places on earth as serenely bucolic as England's legendary academic enclave, she's clearly pleased to be back home in one of the city's most fashionable neighborhoods.
Country people are prone to "argufying" -- the greater and more weighty the question, the more ready are the bucolic Solons to engage with it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture – Sainte-Catherine, after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochere of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic dream of Les Miserables
It's frothy fun that turns bucolic Britain into one big bedroom farce. Times, Sunday Times
Here the northern edge of the city peters out into bucolic countryside, and the municipality has big plans to develop a park for sports and recreation.
The bucolic, transporting music is accompanied by moments of unintentional hilarity. Times, Sunday Times
The last painting Church executed on this theme, A Country Home, provides a bucolic slice of life in a serenely solitary and beautiful setting.
Once the dam's stored waters coursed into the valley, a bucolic canal culture blossomed.
Romantic images and bucolic country scenes of happy grape pickers, hillside vineyards, and dusty bottles in old cellars are featured in all the brochures.
But transposing such a large number of the cars from their natural Soviet habitat to Middleton's bucolic surroundings has stoked up resentment in the village.
This was not exactly UNICORN POINT J89 the Tan Demesnes, but it was a pleasant enough bucolic lo - cale, and she rather liked it. Here There Are Monsters
The bucolic, transporting music is accompanied by moments of unintentional hilarity. Times, Sunday Times
But either Mistress Jean's influx of caution came too late, and someone had overheard her suggestion, or the idea was already abroad in the mind bucolic and georgic, for that very night it began to be reported upon the nearer farms, that the Mains of Glashruach was haunted by a brownie who did all the work for both men and maids -- a circumstance productive of different opinions with regard to the desirableness of a situation there, some asserting they would not fee to it for any amount of wages, and others averring they could desire nothing better than a place where the work was all done for them. Sir Gibbie
Will depart shortly for bucolic countryside home of Support Team's family, where frolicking and gamboling will ensue. Archive 2009-07-01
Funday Sunday was the bucolic and idyllic climax of the Kells heritage festival.
In case you're wondering, the property was an old equestrian ranch on which the 1984 Olympic team trained, and Howard Backen, the Backen, Gillam, & Kroeger architect responsible for Screaming Eagle's design, worked his magic on the property staying true to the bucolic history of the land while inflecting it with simple Japanese aesthetics. Marie Elena Martinez: 2010's Must-Visit Napa Winery: Kenzo Estate
Let them buy their bucolic knick-knacks. Times, Sunday Times
Although my childhood holidays were spent mostly in rural Perthshire, I have come to view the bucolic idyll with suspicion.
From the more bucolic vantage point of farm sanctuaries, he examined the behaviour of pigs, cows, goats, sheep and fowl and found that their tenderness, affection and social interaction gave them a level of sympathy he found surprising.
We had a perfect ceremony on a covered bridge in bucolic upstate New York, which was followed by a fun and lively reception filled with the best of friends and — of course — Long Island wines. From the Vine
It's frothy fun that turns bucolic Britain into one big bedroom farce. Times, Sunday Times
The former rodeo performer and announcer came to Palm Springs in 1927 and rented horses to tourists in the desert oasis known as a bucolic winter getaway for riding and hiking. WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
Best though it was, his suit smacked of cheap tailoring and bucolic unfashionableness. THE THORN BIRDS
It's easy to dismiss it as another nice bucolic scene. Times, Sunday Times
But he is willing to quote this nut job to bolster his bucolic argument that a car-alarm ban will make New York City a paradise. Car thieves love anti-noise activists.
Sheep graze, and cows gaze, over a bucolic, rustic world that their forebearers would recognize at once.
I tire of the labour of thinking, and, when the table is finished, start practical jokes and set all playing at games, which we carry on with bucolic boisterousness. Chapter 37
The effect is a uniquely bucolic landscape art, as rich in natural detail as it is in quasi-mystical symbolism, and painted with an angularity derived partly from Wyndham Lewis and partly from the Pole Jankel Adler.
Anu Naik's canvases have captured the bucolic imagery of rural life in Rajastan and Gujarat.
Bucolic vistas of snowy woods and mountains soon give way to sunbathers when, at the end, Thompson swings through the south of France and Barcelona.
Lately, Julian's charms attract permanent residents, who hope to preserve the surrounding area's bucolic ambience.
An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject. Poems in the genre are sometimes also called bucolics.
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
One day I sat her down to explain to her the word oxymoron and then to describe a magnificent and bucolic world of insults.
The moment he walks out of the interview to return a bee from the canteen floor to the bucolic countryside, less so. Times, Sunday Times
Country folk are often keen, in their unhurried and admirably wholesome manner, to hammer home the superiority of their bucolic lifestyles. Times, Sunday Times
The festival has blossomed into a sophisticated three-month venue that manages to retain the inimitably bucolic spirit of the site as it accomplishes several functions.
There was a certain bucolic look to the faces of the cart drivers.
The bucolic bard was a party man with lusty appetites. Times, Sunday Times
To understand the fate of Arcadian consolations, in particular, it is important to understand the role bucolic moments and memories had played in consolatory work during and after the Great War.
Having done South Wales it's a delightful drive from Gower across the undulating hills and bucolic countryside of Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire to the Irish Sea coast and the pretty Georgian town of Aberaeron.
The fields surrounding the house are being kept by the family, leaving the manor with 83 acres - a bit tight for those with country squire ambitions, but for those without, a bucolic landscape avoiding the hassle of farming.
She altered the composition by shifting the house to the right and filling in the left with a bucolic scene of a shepherd and shepherdess with a small flock of sheep.
Which is a more bucolic scene: a flock of sheep grazing in the distance or some ugly metal monster making a racket? Times, Sunday Times
The bucolic countryside along the Niagara River features a large number of wineries and orchards and the road is lined with fruit stands, featuring fresh Ontario produce.
My neurologist told me about a patient of hers who saw a bucolic farm scene before each seizure.
A tour through the St. Lawrence Valley will let the traveller experience picturesque islands, rugged fjords and a bucolic countryside.
Until recently, you would have had to look long and hard for an oil rig amid the bucolic scenery here.
France grew up on a farm much like the one she describes, and paints a picture of bucolic pastures concealing a stagnant community of unresolved resentments where the same pieces of bric-a-brac circulate the jumble sales and the postmistress runs a secret information network to rival that of any South American dictator. Hill Farm by Miranda France – review
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
On the way to the working farm, they marvel at the bucolic scene - rolling hills with acres of corn and soybean fields, the green pastures interspersed with barns and farm houses.
The air is more pastoral and bucolic than in nearby hamlets.
The bucolic bard was a party man with lusty appetites. Times, Sunday Times
These may not make a dent in the household budget of what Fearnley-Whittingstall describes as the "bucolic, rose-tinted world" of the River Cottage, but will impact heavily on those struggling in a tough economic climate to feed their families. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
And no, it isn't a show about bucolic bovines or pretty pigs.
a pleasant bucolic scene
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
With the help of his partner, Brent Ridge, known to fans as Dr. Brent on The Martha Stewart Show, they pack up their big city belongings from their small city apartment and a good chunk of their savings account to live the so-called bucolic life on the farm. Annie Spiegelman: A Book About Escaping to Upstate N.Y. Is Just Like Walden , Only Campier!
To create the top pillow on the stack, cut a bucolic scene from toile fabric and position it in the center of a removable pillow cover.
The siblings, raised in the bucolic idealism of a Saskatchewan hippie commune, are suddenly forced to reckon with the cruel shallowness and hypocrisy of “Legoland”- the name given to the modern world by their aquarian parents. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Theatre review: Legoland
Underneath this bucolic scene was a caption: True religion will satisfy all our needs. In God's Country: travels in the Bible belt, USA.
The setup is simplicity itself: a small 19th century village tries to live in bucolic harmony and peace, while the surrounding woods bristle with unseen creatures. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
I tallied up my day spent basking in bucolic bliss ... and realized how it all added up to good business! French Word-A-Day:
Executed under cover of night, as far as Flinx could tell the massive shape terminating in its coruscant Caplis projector came to rest in near silence among the thirty-meter-high dunes of the bucolic peninsula unnoticed by any living thing save for a pair of nesting amphibians. Running from the Deity
But PETA says most California dairy cows live not in bucolic pastures, but in filthy, grassless lots where they are forced to give too much milk and are separated from their calves too soon.
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
Despite this bucolic portrait , Iowa has its share of urban landscapes, too.
This film makes that sound a sweetly romantic, almost bucolic existence.
It's an overplanned, excessively uniform, characterless nowhere full of identical shopping centers, housing developments with pseudo-aristocratic or bucolic names and divided boulevards bisected by grassy medians with identical trees spaced at uniform intervals. Greetings from the belly of the beast
Perhaps you're outdoorsy and love the idea of a bucolic agrarian business.
The spartan public ferry taking me there is less glamorous than the private jet we flew to Montana, but it's a gorgeous July day, and Orcas is bucolic and unassuming - an undeveloped Pacific Nantucket.
Scenes of bucolic harmony and sylvan bliss are punctuated by violent episodes in which all manner of wild animals are shown attacking domestic animals.
But as more young professionals escape Los Angeles for the bucolic peninsula, there are fresh demands to thin the peafowl population. Peacocks Are an Acquired Taste Some in California Don't Share
It is a scene of almost bucolic splendour - a groundsman astride his motorised roller putting the finishing touches to a beautifully manicured cricket ground nestling on the fringes of an attractive county town.
Now living on five bucolic acres in Township, Ohio, Eszterhas is a changed man, having shucked the glitz and booze for daily five-mile walks and more time with his four young sons.
Equally bucolic and perhaps even more liable to misunderstanding was the unmaidenly custom of peeping through keyholes before opening doors on Valentine's Day.
Work on a third manuscript, which is called Bucolics, has, however, led me to realize that I am actually trying to construct a poetic trilogy, three separate books that examine an individual's relationship to the natural world.
Therefore, to make you happier, I will expand the sphere of my so-called "slippery" use of the term "harangue" -- which you somehow connote only with Nick and his "bombastic ranting" as you say -- to inlude not just the initial Anonymous comment, but Nick, yourself, and anyone else who jumps to malicious, bucolic, or any other conclusions about another individual, based on a pittance of data. Readercon 16: Day 1
The Schoolhouse Restaurant in Cannondale, Connecticut is one of those sweet, bucolic little places that serves local, seasonal food prepared by its light-handed and talented chef/owner, Tim LaBant. Elissa Altman: The Schoolhouse Restaurant's Email Snafu: How One Mistake Created a Social Network in Less Than an Hour
The anxiety and intensity jarred with the bucolic riverside setting. Times, Sunday Times
Somewhat surprisingly in the rarefied atmosphere of modern grandmaster chess, this bucolic approach bears fruit. Times, Sunday Times
The Brooklyn Paper, perhaps searching for a new obsession now that its fixation of yore-Atlantic Yards-is a fait accompli, is continuing its crusade to rescue the animals of Prospect Park from a recent spate of lakeside violence, one that has prompted the paper to dub the greensward's body of water "The Lake of Death." the paper reports that the decomposed body of a dog was fished from the murky waters of the Prospect Park Lake, just the latest in a series of dead animals that have washed up on the shores of the normally bucolic lake: All Stories | The New York Observer
The photography is kitsch picturesque, a chocolate-box vision of bucolic bliss. Times, Sunday Times
Artistically he translated this into a bucolic rural utopia in the Shire, the antipode to modern industrialised society, where Frodo longs to return.
This bucolic frolic was directed with unflagging é lan by Stephen Frears from a script with a layered lineage: Moira Buffini adapted a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds which was, in its turn, a contemporary riff on Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd. A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
“THE ISLE”:: shocking art-house drama about sexual manipulation set in bucolic countryside. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
In 'Idylls IV, written by the Greek bucolic poet Theocritus, 3rd century BC, Corydon says to his fellow herdsman:' Be comforted. Entretenir de grands espoirs - French Word-A-Day
It's frothy fun that turns bucolic Britain into one big bedroom farce. Times, Sunday Times
As the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir put it: ‘Sade's perverse bucolics have the grim austerity of a nudist colony.’

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