Sentences with word «bucolic»

In «Young and Innocent», Hill combines folk artist's depictions of children as innocents in bucolic settings in a series of portraits of urban children who have embraced modern living influences including materialism, consumerism and drug use.

The seemingly bucolic setting of South Carolina's Low Country reveals its seamier side in Bret Lott's...

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.

Comprised of material shot for Laura Poitras's Academy Award - winning documentary Citizenfour (2014) about whistle - blower Edward Snowden — for which the artist was a contributing cinematographer — instruments of surveillance are revealed in scenes of bucolic landscapes, uncharacteristically marked by satellite dishes and radomes, busy city centres and moody seascapes.

Nestled into eight acres of bucolic countryside, the Old Deacon Schoolhouse is a well - preserved example of a typical rural Ontario schoolhouse.

The Faroe Islands, dotted with bucolic villages like Haldarsvik, shown here, hopes to become energy self - sufficient by positioning itself as a testing ground for renewable energy technologies.

But hazards — both hidden and not so hidden — abound even here in the one of the most bucolic towns in America.

Sink your toes into ebony sands on virtually deserted beaches on bucolic Filicudi.

The second hung out just 30 kilometers away in a more bucolic setting, surrounded by far fewer humans.

From bucolic farms and thick forests to crowded cities and desert outposts, the stages in «Battlefield 1» are simply amazing.

Wright's great theme is everyday life made uncanny, whether by the arrival of massed undead hordes (Shaun of the Dead) or the revelation of a hidden cabal in bucolic surroundings (Hot Fuzz).

Awkwardly bookended by novelist Nathan Zuckerman's (David Strathairn) visit to his 45th high - school reunion, it's the story of Seymour «Swede» Levov (McGregor), a Jewish «golden boy» and star athlete, who marries Dawn Dwyer (Jennifer Connelly), an Irish - Catholic beauty queen, and settles into a seemingly bucolic life on a farm in Old Rimrock, a WASPy western New Jersey township.

It is just a great bucolic village to meander and spend some time when you want to get away from it all.

While they acknowledge that this trend in no way counterbalances the net urbanization of Europe, it does point to a contemporary desire for bucolic escape on the part of certain groups (I can only read «informed and emancipated» as wealthy and educated).

The drive to the point is dotted with bucolic scenery and tiny villages, making it a worthwhile trip even for non-surfers.

Collectively, the works are like a illustrated census, capturing a country in a moment of time, from bucolic rolling fields to city pubs, bus stops, Essex tattoo parlours and the elephants at London zoo.

For many of us, the idea of a dairy farm may evoke bucolic images of cows grazing peacefully on acres of green, rolling pasture.

It was the image of bucolic fields, picnics on white tablecloths, and wildflowers.

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.

A community can quickly go from bucolic hamlet to congested megapolis in just a few years, and that can compromise your quality of life if you're locked into a mortgage for the next few decades.

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.

Bicycle lanes are wonderful things, often running through bucolic countryside.

Schutz creates unsteady cornucopia compositions that build out of paint, creating shifting spatial planes that flip - flop, flickering in confetti color and, until recently, with creamy paint, which flower into bucolic clusterfucks.

Or is there an inner resemblance between the game of bucolic green and the hot music of New Orleans bars?

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.

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.

It's amazing how just outside Philadelphia are up - and - coming towns as well as bucolic -LSB-...]

Because of her widowed state, Gilly is free to accept Christian's offer and join him in the tranquil, bucolic splendor of the Severn family seat.

Call ahead to book a cellar door tasting at bucolic organic winery Oranje Tractor on the way.

Often in the lingo of white, western middle class person it conjures up bucolic visions of mothers carrying their babies in pouches on their backs etc. etc..

As the king's retainer, you are charged with accompanying these misfit royals as they trundle around Trodea's bucolic hills and valleys in search of revenge or, at very least, a face - fixing antidote.

The Meadow House is a serene retreat that has been completely transformed from a classic 1920s farmhouse into a charming retreat with bucolic views of meadows, ponds, and pastures.

Sometimes, and especially on a crummy afternoon in the middle of March, it's nice to be able to switch off and settle down to enjoying the sight of middle - class families eating well and playing together in sprawling, bucolic gardens.

Even a more rural outpost like bucolic Red Hook, N.Y., with its robust town center, fits the bill.

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Skretch is an experienced plein air painter of bucolic East End landscapes, so it wouldn't seem changing the view from land to sea would cause upheaval for the longtime professional artist.

In the northeastern reaches of Turkey, outside the city of Kars, I came across one of the most bucolic scenes I'd ever laid eyes on in the country: a clear stream winding its way through a green, flower - filled meadow at the foot of a forested hill.

From the outside, Lil» Deb's Oasis looks like a low - key diner on a side street in bucolic Hudson, NY.

The»80s nostalgia train doesn't show any signs of slowing down — no less an emissary of bucolic American childhood than Steven Spielberg himself will take on the big screen version of Ernest Cline's virtual reality adventure.

THE HOTEL — On a small bucolic island in the center of Stockholm, Hotel Skeppsholmen is a sophisticated eco-friendly cultural hub set in a landmarked pair of pale - yellow 17th - century barracks that were built to house Sweden's Royal Marines.

An exhibition that couldn't be timelier: Curator Arpad Kovcs has put together a show that looks at the ways in which artists have turned bucolic magazine images and fragments of news programming into sharp political statements against events such as the Vietnam War and the so - called war on terror.

This historic and bucolic campus, home to a number of organizations and initiatives based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, includes woods, a pond, a working farm, and the first biodynamic garden in North America.

While bucolic imagery of happy grass - grazing cows and frolicking chickens dominate the marketing campaigns of Big Meat and Dairy, ninety - nine percent of all animal foods in the U.S. come from dark and crowded, air - and water - polluting factory farms.

I wish you could see better out those windows, because this house overlooks the most bucolic pasture with fencing and cows grazing, and gorgeous mountains in the distance.

The seemingly bucolic setting of South Carolina's Low Country reveals its seamier side in Bret Lott's latest novel, a follow - up to 1999's The Hunt Club.

It is not lost in bucolic rolling hills.

The essence is that Napa's bucolic look is an asset that can't be messed with...