Sentences with phrase «bucolic idyll»

It becomes a pastoral landscape of a type familiar in Venetian painting of the Renaissance, as well as in more modern works such as Henri Matisse's «Bonheur de Vivre» (1906) in the Barnes Foundation, a bucolic idyll that seems to recall a golden age, a garden of paradise.

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.

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.

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.

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

Surely one of the world's greatest is New York's Central Park, where all is not a bucolic urban idyll, but an ongoing war between the cyclists, the runners and the dog owners.