Sentences with phrase «at bucolic»

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.

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Coming less than a week after the UK Summer Solstice, the second leg of the 2018 Castle Triathlon Series will take place at Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire during the long, bucolic days of June.

Starting at Grade 3, classes spend a week at camp each year, and the school community also has the opportunity to retreat to the bucolic beauty of the camp in the summer and winter (Maple Sugaring Weekend is a favorite!).

Given that images of England's bucolic countryside had formed such a central part of World War II home - front propaganda, politicians were adamant that post-war reconstruction should not take place at the expense of the rural environment.

Life wasn't entirely bucolic; bronze swords and spears at many sites testify to a threat of violence.

In bucolic England, another red - haired little girl, Mary (Ruby Barnhill, in the English dub version), waits out the final days of summer vacation while staying at the home of her great - aunt Charlotte (Lynda Baron).

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).

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.

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 tension between battlefields and the bucolic is at the center of the new French film «The Guardians.»

Like «North by Northwest,» the bucolic setting turns threatening, and Hitchcockian pacing is at work throughout.

Killing Ground belongs to a pantheon of Aussie outback films that welcome visitors to their bucolic settings in the same way a rusty meat hook at an abattoir welcomes a fresh carcass.

Schumacher has the audacity to finish it off with a bucolic barbecue at which Jake drawls, «Well, I thought our girls should play together!»

Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's genteel adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic 19th century novel is beautiful to look at — filmed in bucolic Dorset, Somerset and Oxfordshire by cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen.

Schamus's script omits this grim episode and commences earlier, at a bright and bucolic country wedding, after Lincoln's election but before Missouri explodes in partisan violence.

While Malick delves into the celestial creation of the universe and its chaotic evolution, including dinosaurs near a riverbed, his earth - bound narrative, set in 1950s Texas, revolves around stern, pious, domineering Mr. O'Brien (Brad Pitt), his spiritual, nurturing wife (Jessica Chastain) and the bucolic childhood of their three sons, one of whom tragically, inexplicably dies at age 19.

Lime Rock, to this novice at least, seems like a bucolic dreamscape, a circa 1957 old - school racetrack, with not too much in the way of hills or bends to remember but plenty to engage the mind.

But when two soldiers, a German and an Italian, arrive at the villa asking to see an ancient Etruscan burial site, the Rosatis» bucolic tranquility is shattered.

Then drive across the bucolic Waikato countryside and stop at a farm for a traditional barbecue lunch.

Perched on a serene, rural hillside, the villa's beautiful stone wall and wooden pool deck meld seamlessly with the bucolic surroundings, while the minimalist elegance of the villa's design is at once utterly contemporary and evocative of a timeless Mediterranean spirit.

Scenic Highlights: Marvel at Moscow's Kremlin, immerse yourself in bucolic Suzdal, watch the countryside glide by from your Trans - Siberian train compartment, meet the locals at Lake Baikal, discover Buryat cuisine and history in Ulan Ude, travel west to east across this massive country

In this bucolic setting, you can savor fine local vintages at Eleonore's, a conservatory - style restaurant overlooking one of the finest rural vistas in Victoria.

Head to this bucolic, Brandywine Valley winery and buy a bottle of its lemony 2016 Hopewell Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc to enjoy at one of the terrace tables under the trees.

Every morning and afternoon, local villagers leave offerings at a century - old temple, while farmers work the bucolic rice fields that form Mandapa's core.

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

Other tours start early and drive a bit further, but reward with nature at its most startling - be it the surreal sights of «The Pinnacles» or «Wave Rock», or the more bucolic beauty of Margaret River, with its gorgeous surf beaches, award - winning wineries and giant hardwood forests.

Great for families with children or just a group of friends, Amy at Dea offers bucolic surroundings while remaining in proximity to many of Bali's prized attractions.

The scrubby bushes at the entrance and the bucolic dirt driveway belie the resplendence found inside the property.

Ski the scenic trails at this historic hillside resort located in the heart of the bucolic Berkshire...

Following an epic prologue that mirrors the battlefield opening of Peter Jackson's movies, you find yourself in the bucolic idyll of Hobbiton, tiny Lego hobbits scurrying around its rabbit - warren lanes, drinking and dancing at Bilbo's birthday party.

Widely considered to be among his best work, these large - scale landscapes — with Untitled XVIII a seminal example — evoke the bucolic splendor of the artist's East Hampton studio at Springs.

Nearby, William Villalongo presents a different utopian vision in «Jubilee», a painting shaped like a fan depicting a bucolic scene that's somewhere between «The Luncheon on the Grass» and the decor one might encounter during lunch at a Chinese restaurant.

What at first glance appear to be bucolic scenes of a pristine world become on closer inspection images of a landscape that at every turn has felt and recorded the impact of human habitation.

Throughout his canvases there are references to both his deep love of the bucolic and rural, and to the urban at its most «street.»

More than 50 of his landscapes are gathered together at Brandywine River Museum of Art, a 30 - minute drive out from Philadelphia into a bucolic landscape that has long attracted both the hugely wealthy (two Du Pont family estates, Longwood and Winterthur, are open to the public) and artists from Hudson Valley painters to three generations of Wyeths.

SPACE Gallery is nestled in the depths of CHRISpark, a bucolic downtown oasis located at 111 Camp Street, across from Camp Street Lofts, Linda Pace's former residence.

Hovering at the edges of these works are intimations of suffering and mortality which layer the poignancy of experience into these vividly playful and bucolic scenes.

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.

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.

Have a bucolic moment in the middle of the city all month, at December's #midnightmoment from Times Square Arts, Tal Yarden's Counting Sheep.

His show at Basilico Fine Arts gallery outlines a breathtakingly convincing early American room: a brick fireplace beneath a hulking timber mantle and ceiling beams — all rendered in carved and painted Styrofoam — combined with leaded windows lined with photographs of bucolic country lanes.

Roy Lichtenstein's «Red Barn 1» (1969), a Pop version of a quaint American barn set in a bucolic landscape, was estimated at $ 1.4 million to $ 1.8 million, A telephone bidder paid $ 2.4 million.

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.

This has led to wonderful tourist attractions like mutant sheep, thoroughly contaminated fields still used for farming, poisonous mozzarella, and to the realization that the bucolic images of Southern Italy you see on those cheesy postcards at the Naples International Airport are utter bullshit.

It all sounds so bucolic, until you read that the entire building is on stilts so that the 2,800 engineers in the building can park at grade in 1499 parking spaces, or one space for every 1.86 employees.

Given that there are more hedgehogs in urban areas than in bucolic settings, researchers at the University of Hamburg, Germany wanted to explore what city life was like for the animals in order to help better protect them.

What, you might ask, could «Lucky,» né Paul Pickthorne, have possibly done to warrant such treatment at the hands of the residents of the bucolic - sounding Merrimack Park subdivision?

Vicki Delany, Valley of the Lost: A Constable Molly Smith Mystery In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C., a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby at her side.

You imagine bucolic solicitailor practices put at risk by the smelly aggressive barristailors.