Sentences with phrase «as bucolic»

While many would still describe Winter Haven as a bucolic town of just 30,000 residents, it occupies an excellent location for investigating the rest of the state.

When the line reaches Hackney — its various localities rebranded by property developers as bucolic - sounding idylls («Victoria Park Village»)-- the spiral ends.

In a few small pockets, scorched slopes tell the story of the fires that incinerated dry grass and singed treetops, but on the valley floor, the region is as bucolic and picturesque as ever.

Apparently, an eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject, usually in the form of a dialogue between two shepherds - such poems are also also known as bucolics.

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Images of the lucky chosen strolling in all their gender - balanced, ethnically diverse glory up Rideau Hall's tree - lined lane to be sworn in on Nov. 4, 2015, has lasted as the iconic, bucolic image of this Liberal government's beginnings.

If Amazon is concerned about retaining employees as they move into their 30s, settle down and have families, Montgomery's bucolic neighborhoods and strong public schools might be the answer.

The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

Their bucolic distillery, as described by a state treasury agent named W. George McMullen in his self - published memoir, Twenty - Eight Years a T - Man, maintained a production capacity of 400 gallons of corn liquor.

Trimmed, landscaped, bucolic and imbued with a sense of leisure which most of those who play on it often wish they could themselves actually possess, as they drive, swing and putt their way around, it is an almost perfect backdrop for any kind of contemplation — particularly girl watching.

The comment sparked an uproar with some upstate Democrats who have long been sensitive to condescension from New York City - bred candidates that upstate is solely bucolic countryside meant as a playground for vacationers.

This month, we found the same diagram on posters on the London Underground, advertising Antiphon, the new album from Midlake — described by one reviewer as an «impeccably realised meld of bucolic 70s folk and radio - friendly soft rock».

Most of us think of honey bees as having a bucolic, pastoral existence — flying from flower to flower to collect the nectar they then turn into honey.

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

As the rises on this bucolic horizon, the clouds turn to soft pink and gold above the lush green landscape.

After introducing the magical plant of the film's title — a phosphorescent wild berry that blooms just once every seven years — the movie settles into the bucolic lull of its rural surroundings, as Mary (voiced by Ruby Barnhill in the English - language version) unpacks her belongings at her new home, a charming cottage belonging to her Great - Aunt Charlotte (Lynda Baron).

Or the apparently bucolic existence of people who have taken up residence in the transmission - free area around a radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, effectively living as if the internet never existed?

Barely half an hour long, it unfolds without words in two of Genet's regular registers, incarcerated and bucolic, as it explores the love of two separated inmates and the jealousy of their guard.

Eilis» improved attitude shows in her job as a shopgirl — her supervisor, Miss Fortini (Jessica Paré, «Mad Men»), tells her that if she's met an Italian who doesn't talk her ear off about baseball or his mother, he's a keeper — and the couple start making plans together, including his dreams of building houses in the bucolic, far - off land known as Long Island.

His latest is Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a voracious sexual predator who lives in the dark cocoon of his stretch limo as it inches its way across Midtown to a barbershop that would be more at home in the bucolic small town of A History of Violence than in the metal canyons of Manhattan.

Where Hardy went, misery followed, and while this bucolic yarn feels like The Wizard of Oz next to such angst fests as Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure, it's full of the unhappy marriages, tragic deaths, thwarted lovers and frustrated ambitions that crowd the margins of his other work.

With Brendan Gleeson as patriarch Colby and Michael Fassbender as the troubled heir to his travellers» caravan throne, the tone is country miles from David Jason's bucolic idyll, which the Cutlers affront at every turn.

The setting is the small village of Eichwald, a bucolic commune that, presided over by such stern patriarchs as the landowning baron (Ulrich Tukur) and the pastor (Burghart Klaussner), is presented as a 19th - century holdover inexorably giving way to the darkening modernity of new times.

Based on a graphic novel, it stars Tamsin Greig and Roger Allam as the owners of a bucolic writers» retreat.

Maggie (Kristen Wiig) has mistaken growing up for growing out of herself, as she tries to walk the straight and narrow in her bucolic upstate New York hometown.

The rest of the piece is the typical stuff, tied together more or less coherently by Fulci this time around, as Luca mills around in his bucolic circle before being drawn into a battle not of his choosing by bestial rivals.

As the two cagily approach their first time as man and wife together, director Dominic Cooke cuts between the past and present, to show how the bucolic autodidact and blues fan Edward came to meet the sophisticated Florence, a middle - class violinist with a classical string quarteAs the two cagily approach their first time as man and wife together, director Dominic Cooke cuts between the past and present, to show how the bucolic autodidact and blues fan Edward came to meet the sophisticated Florence, a middle - class violinist with a classical string quarteas man and wife together, director Dominic Cooke cuts between the past and present, to show how the bucolic autodidact and blues fan Edward came to meet the sophisticated Florence, a middle - class violinist with a classical string quartet.

The real story begins with the pair in bucolic Hobbiton, a city full of residing hobbits, or «little people» as they are also referred to.

With its bucolic landscape of rolling hills and country farmhouses, it better fits Ferruccio Lamborghini's original business as a builder of tractors.

And yet, as an inquisitive traveler and enthusiastic bibliophile, no trip seems quite whole without books — to wit, in cities cosmopolitan and countryside bucolic, I find myself invariably drawn to bookstores and libraries.

My aunt's friends will ask, although they live only a half hour north, up the Saw Mill Parkway, but in a state of bucolic isolation that might as well be Maine.

As an American I've dreamt of a beautiful rustic ~ bucolic setting where my heart can lose itself.

This Dutch city may conjure images of bucolic canal side row houses, Technicolor tulips, and leisurely bike rides, but make no mistake about it: it's one of the world's most popular destinations, and faces crowds all year long that flock there as a result.

The sighting seems novel at first, but here the bucolic bird is almost as ubiquitous...

An ideal base from which to explore the Cotswolds, this boutique hotel offers an alluring blend of contemporary bucolic style with nods to its history in the form of authentic facades and brickwork, period wooden beams, as well as an original Roman mosaic.

Boasting three dining options, as well as an outdoor pool, spa facilities, state of the art room amenities, in addition to tranquil, bucolic surroundings and plentiful greenery.

Before our trip, I thought of Bali more as a beach destination than one that can be spent exploring the bucolic countryside.

Immerse yourself in the bucolic hythms of small agricultural villages as you sample local honey, search for truffles, attend a sheep shearing, and spend your nights in lovely, refurbished manor homes.

Seasons After Fall is a 2D platformer from indie studio Swing Swing Submarine with some fairly unique mechanics and a story somewhat rooted in Celtic mythology, revealed to the player in pieces as they travel through bucolic deserted landscapes.

Far from being the bucolic symbol it is often read as now, it was in fact emblematic to artists of how we harnessed nature to our own ends.

Written in 1940, the song's original lyrics introduced a critical perspective to the idealistic view of America as Underwood's images challenge the common bucolic perception of the landscape.

In 1989, an article in Country Life suggested beautifying petrol stations by disguising them as rustic cabins or in similarly bucolic architectural costumes.

In another highlight in the Neue Galerie, Geoffrey Farmer replays the hegemonic American version of postwar history as an absurdly bucolic Midwestern pop prairie formed from tens of thousands of illustrations from Life magazine, each on its own «stem».

Sweeping views of the bucolic English countryside are interrupted and fractured by glitches and ruptures as you realise you are looking at a digital rendering of a landscape courtesy of Google earth.

We stopped by the gallery for a quick peak and saw a varied collection of new works in many of the mediums Ellis is know for, such as glossy acrylic paintings, kinetic sculptures and tobacco - stained works on paper, with imagery capturing elements of the bucolic environment where he -LSB-...]

Before the delving into the hectic holidays, have a rare bucolic moment in Times Square through Tal Yarden's «Counting Sheep» as it takes over the screens of the Midtown hub.

Boat names evoke the pastoral activity of fishing and the landscape of the sea; the paraphernalia of naval warfare describes a bucolic idyll expressed as if a shaded garden temple; instruments of revolution and agriculture - a gun, a drum, a guillotine blade, a hoe, a spade - similarly harness the language of the seasonal metamorphosis in which a garden, like society, is ordered and celebrated through themes suggested by the French Revolution.

Exploiting the form's commercial potential in the 1880s, Henry Hamilton Bennett produced stereographs of the bucolic Wisconsin dells as souvenirs, which you can peer at in the gallery.

With St. Moritz Art Masters, the bucolic mountain resort of St Moritz is further flourishing its reputation as world - class art destination.

That changed when she relocated her studio to the bucolic setting of upstate New York, and now her new show of nine large - scale paintings at Susan Inglett Gallery reveals the direction her work has taken as a result.

The bucolic playmates gaze calmly downwards at the bodiless heads at their feet, as though pausing in their game.