Sentences with phrase «bucolic landscape»

Their hurts and sorrows seem common enough — love not returned, the complicated bond of mothers and sons, paths not taken, paths taken and regretted — and Mayer plays them out in a drifting ebb and flow set against a serenely bucolic landscape belied by the turmoil within each savage breast.

Stalin threw about a million troops into the dense forests and frozen expanses that connected the two countries, and able, determined Finnish troops turned the bucolic landscape into a charnel house for underprepared, underfed, and initially overwhelmed Soviet troops.

Guests can enjoy light fare as they meander through the farm's picturesque grounds or relax at a table in the adjacent paved courtyard, which boasts sweeping views of the peaceful, bucolic landscape.

As we drove north, the fog and clouds opened up to magnificent blue skies, mountains and a bucolic landscape of red barns, goats and flowers.

The vast monolithic apartment complexes of Kiev have disappeared, giving way to small wood frame houses in a bucolic landscape of green and brown fields.

Cloud shadows sweep across copses and hedgerows, and all around you the bucolic landscape is punctured only by... a passel of volcanoes.

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

Part of the pleasure in a historical mystery, of course, comes from the ambience of the time and place, and Oswald is a lyrical observer of the local color of his world, whether he's waxing poetic about the bucolic landscape («the rain gave way to a fan of sunlight») or the texture of a plague pit («creaking and bony mattress of death»).

The Weight of Blood is an urgent look at the dark side of a bucolic landscape beyond the arm of the law, where a person can easily disappear without a trace.

Walk to the hilltop castle for views over these bucolic landscapes, framed by majestic peaks.

Declaring his commitment to a «hygiene of vision,» he filled his work with store - bought items, glamorous women, and bucolic landscapes: symbols of purity that engaged the period's fascination with novelty and surface appearance.

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.

During this time, hundreds of American artists traveled to Holland to sketch in the bucolic landscape or study the art of the Dutch Old Masters.

The photographs» bucolic landscapes are the result of a «walk through nature,» in a region once inhabited by the artist's family, echoing the style of the photo - documented art of 1970s Land Artists, an act infused with the ideals of Romanticism.

But what gives Thiebaud's images a particular piquancy is the way they often combine the playful and the pleasurable — that solitary cow in a bucolic landscape — with the poignant — the sense of isolation that the single cow and the lonely house on the hill evoke.

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.

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.

The original home nestled on over 10 acres of bucolic landscape was designed by...

The bucolic landscape, laid - back lifestyle and delicious food and wine make this stretch of northern California ideal for an indulgent weekend getaway.