Sentences with phrase «bucolic life»

The cultural scene is alive and well with crafts and artists galleries, community theater groups, and visitors love our local weekly newspaper which gives a glimpse into the bucolic life in the small town of Cambria.

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.

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He had no idea, and had thought they were all the bucolic farmer - run places he's seen in kids picture books all his life.

It is a peek into everything that SirLady experiences living here in the bucolic Hudson Valley.

The clip forgoes mentioning his most effective work with Freedom to Marry, his supportive husband, and his connections to the New York political elite (Andrew Cuomo, Chuck Schumer), instead stressing the local stuff while shots of bucolic farm - life play.

The location, be it urban, bucolic, or a compromise between the two, will play a large part in determining quality of life.

Such is the video footage collected by scientists over 3 years from cameras strapped around bears» necks, offering the first «bear's eye view» of life in this bucolic but harsh reserve.

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

But hey, this is a movie, and so we accept the premise that he would quickly journey down to the bucolic movie hamlet where Maggie lives — Hale, Md., a village that looks like a postcard, where everybody lives in each other's pockets.

Boyle has a mother (Fionnula Flanagan) who's only got a short time to live, and he has installed her in a bucolic facility for dying oldsters (perhaps this is where all that crime - scene money is going).

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?

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.

Yet, while that connection's undeniable (tonally and visually, it's closest to Terrence Malick's bucolic debut), writer - director Michael Pearce's first feature has a distinct heart and identity, rooted in his own upbringing on the island and filtered through the legacy of Jersey's real - life «Beast»,»60s serial sex offender Edward Paisnel.

The couple lives a bucolic farm life, with only the occasional slaughtering of wild boars with knives and their bare hands, and taking in rescue dogs and, in the case of Ricky, a rescue child.

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).

The towns» bucolic settings and low cost of living — not to mention the good academic reputation of North Dakota's schools — apparently are not enough to keep superintendents from seeking work in neighboring states where the pay is better or there are more job opportunities for their spouses.

Maria, devastated by the deaths of her mother and beloved sister, flees the bucolic Cuban countryside of her childhood for a better life in Havana.

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.

But it's important to protect your bucolic new life.

Spread over 12 bucolic acres, this haven for rescued animals is a unique no - cage environment where over 700 cats roam freely inside and outside, many awaiting a forever home, while others will spend their lives there.

Sequestered between the South Fork and North Fork, life there seems bucolic with an easy pace set besides blue waters, casual grounds and relaxed restaurants and eateries.

After visiting these bucolic towns and interacting with the people there, it is completely plausible to imagine Still going about his daily life with no one being remotely aware of the historic figure walking in their midst.

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».

Sequestered between the South Fork and North Fork, life there seems bucolic with an easy...

The show features more than 40 original fine art prints including lithographs and etchings that chronicle daily life — the bustle of urban streets, boisterous moments of leisure, modern modes of transportation, and bucolic rural images — by leading artists who approached their subject matter through the lens of realism: George Bellows (1882 - 1925), Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967), Martin Lewis (1881 - 1962), Reginald Marsh (1898 - 1954), John Sloan (1871 - 1951), Benton Murdoch Spruance (1904 - 1967), Stow Wengenroth (1906 - 1978), and Grant Wood (1891 - 1942).

This canvas began its life as a meticulous recreation of Johannes Itten's color wheel (which she did herself; she outsources none of her painting to assistants), which she then overlaid with an uncharacteristically sweet and wistful portrayal of a believably proportioned naked woman gazing out through the slats of a barn, a bucolic scene with a lovely sense of interiority.

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.

Bucolic scenes of shepherds with their flocks, or idyllic depictions of rural life were sentimental evocations that harked back to Classical notions of Arcadian paradises, not unlike picture postcards whose images have been edited.

For many firms, the motivation to establish workplaces in communities like Eugene and Portland in Oregon and Victoria, B.C., or nearby bucolic bedroom communities, is a recognition that employees benefit from access to nature and improved quality of life.

She proceeded to narrate a «Fable for Tomorrow,» describing a bucolic American town «where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.»

It is so bucolic and green, the Lilac Hills Ranch north of San Diego, «a sustainable community that promotes healthy living by connecting residents with the natural environment.»

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.

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.

When buyers think about living in the Napa Valley adjectives like bucolic, serene and natural come to mind.

I don't live on a farm, although a bucolic setting has always been a dream of mine, but my childhood weekends were spent frolicing with my siblings, and numerous cousins, through the fields of my dear Aunt Stella's little farm.