Sentences with phrase «from bucolic»

Located in Seattle's own «Central Park», Florera offers urban conveniences, while just steps away from the bucolic Green Lake and its vibrant surrounding neighborhood, awaiting the anticipated arrival of the LINK Light Rail at NE 65th Avenue and Roosevelt Way NE.

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.

These days, I do that from a bucolic part of charming Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

What is clear is that the IDC, which for most of its existence has consisted of white pols from bucolic sections of the outer boroughs and the suburbs, is desperate for a minority member — so it can deflect claims it has disempowered the blacks and Latinos who make up much of the mainstream Democratic conference's constituency.

Not exact matches

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.

And, heirloom varietals like Newtown Pippins and Gravensteins — which are hand - selected from batch - to - batch — add bucolic Northwest charm to the blend.

Nestled on a 500 - acre estate in New Jersey's bucolic equestrian country — just one hour from New York City and 90 minutes from Philadelphia — the resort's award - winning Ninety Acres restaurant and Cooking School will wrap up the year with a bit of holiday magic and a full calendar of culinary celebrations.

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

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

The idea that upstate New York is a «vast» bucolic region of rural space and «some towns» didn't sit well with upstate - based political reporters and elected officials, who (including yours truly) snarked in almost disbelief response that a former U.S. senator from New York could be so tone deaf about the region that yes, does include «vast, rural» areas, but also cities and suburban communities.

The comment sparked an uproar with some upstate Democrats who have long been sensitive to condescension from New York City - bred candidates that upstate is solely bucolic countryside meant as a playground for vacationers.

Overnight, Rockland went from being a quiet, bucolic suburb where bad things rarely happened to being the center of a convoluted plot by a group of terrorists pursuing a violent ideology that made sense only to them.

This month, we found the same diagram on posters on the London Underground, advertising Antiphon, the new album from Midlake — described by one reviewer as an «impeccably realised meld of bucolic 70s folk and radio - friendly soft rock».

If the bucolic view from the north is a reminder of the past, the second one, says Schönau resident Ursula Sladek, is a hopeful vision of the future, of a society transformed.

Prominent among these in Australia are wealthy conservative landowners appalled by the very visible presence of the tall green - energy totems, a constant reminder of bucolic decay and the «upstairs - downstairs» disdain they have for those needing income from their often hilly, poorer quality land.

Most of us think of honey bees as having a bucolic, pastoral existence — flying from flower to flower to collect the nectar they then turn into honey.

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.

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.

On Monday I ventured a mile north to Buffalo Bayou, a bucolic urban park remade thanks to $ 25 million from a leading local philanthropist who once worked for Enron.

I am such a seasonal cook and soon I'll be enjoying the spring fare from our garden and local food stands across my beautiful bucolic area!

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.

Did I lift this almost laughingly bucolic scene from the pages of L.L. Bean's most recent fall catalog, you ask?

Hepburn, who also wrote the screenplay, shows a fondness for neo-realism, with a wealth of handheld shots, often uncomfortable closeups, elements of kitchen sink melodrama ---- great secondary performances from the likes of Nicholas Campbell and Mary Galloway make any soap opera elements utterly convincing ---- and sequences where the bucolic backgrounds and wintry landscapes seem to obsess and overwhelm the characters.

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.

Perhaps it's because I'm from the suburbs of Northern California and the only true difference from season to season is extreme heat to inconvenient rain and back again, but when spring rolls around, my heart longs for bucolic stories.

The bucolic garden, located on W. 162nd St. across from the historic Morris - Jumel Mansion — Manhattan's oldest house — boasts two dozen plots where members grow vegetables and flowers and host neighborhood parties around the barbecue pit.

But once you have a dog, that bucolic scene can look more like a hotbed of potential pain and injury from foxtails (also called «grass seed awns»).

Located a short walk away from the heart of the charming village of Franschhoek and set against the backdrop of the bucolic Middagkrans Mountains, Auberge Daniella is a quaint haven of comfort and authentic French country charm.

Sip your way along the Ventura County Wine Trail, where you'll find nearly 20 wineries and tasting rooms in settings ranging from urban neighborhoods to the bucolic Ojai Valley.

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

Sip your way along the Ventura County Wine Trail, where you will find nearly 20 wineries and tasting rooms in settings ranging from urban neighbourhoods to the bucolic...

An ideal base from which to explore the Cotswolds, this boutique hotel offers an alluring blend of contemporary bucolic style with nods to its history in the form of authentic facades and brickwork, period wooden beams, as well as an original Roman mosaic.

A world away from beach resorts, the bucolic scenery in Upcountry Maui reflects its agricultural and paniolo (cowboy) roots.

Located a short walk away from the heart of the charming village of Franschhoek and set against the backdrop of the bucolic Middagkrans Mountains, Auberge Daniella is a quaint haven of comfort and authentic French c...

Angkor Miracle Resort & Spa is a five - star stunner that finds unique ways to immerse guests in nature, with plenty of greenery throughout the property and rooms that offer expansive views of the bucolic countryside.Located on National Road 6, it is approximately nine km from Angkor Wat, making it easy to visit; other nearby points of interest include a golf course, just three km away, plus Cambodian Cultural Village is 220m from the hotel.What makes Angkor Miracle Resort & Spa such a haven of rest and relaxation is the fact that it is fitted out with a comprehensive array of facilities, ranging from a sprawling outdoor swimming pool ringed with plenty of greenery and a poolside bar, tennis courts, a gym with cardio equipment and more, a saltwater Jacuzzi, sauna room, spa, cafe, two restaurants and a bar.

Seasons After Fall is a 2D platformer from indie studio Swing Swing Submarine with some fairly unique mechanics and a story somewhat rooted in Celtic mythology, revealed to the player in pieces as they travel through bucolic deserted landscapes.

Mummery + Schnelle A Bucolic Frolic: Distractions from the Modern 29 June — 18 August 2012 A group show: Andrew Cross, Roger Dean, Jonathan Gent, Merlin James, Peter Kinley, Bob Law, George Shaw, Mark Wallinger.

Both «A Sense of Place: Selections from the Guild Hall Permanent Collection» and «Cornelia Foss» highlight works illustrating the influence of the light, landscape, and seasonally bucolic ambiance that has attracted artists for more than a century to the East End of Long Island.

«On my last trip to Luxembourg I learnt a couple of things: a. I am not the only one to have know the story of the Burton brothers [Walter John (1863 - 1880) and Alfred Henry (1834 - 1914) Burton]; b. this american artist did meet and even masturbate Peter [Berlin], an old friend of mine; c. somebody from Chicago (might that be a pseudo-archeologist, this fact is currently out of my knowledge) has found facts that relate Romantic bucolic painting to the «eurotwink» aesthetics (Bel Ami et al.).

Far from being the bucolic symbol it is often read as now, it was in fact emblematic to artists of how we harnessed nature to our own ends.

The exhibition (30 April — 30 May 2018) brings together artists including Anne Ryan, Abigail Lane, Peter Doig, Ross Taylor and Nicky Hoberman, who have been invited to respond to «The Lore of the Land», with interpretations ranging from folklore, the land, legends and myths to landscapes; urban or bucolic, threatening or seductive.

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.

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».

Herr offers canvases that playfully move in and out of abstraction, tackling everything from the brutality of American football to landscapes both bucolic and suburban.

Ostensibly a bucolic scene of fall foliage, the painting is in fact based upon a still from the film Apocalypse Now that shows an area of jungle being napalmed.

Bucolic scenes from trips or images extracted from videos that caught her attention trigger a process towards paintings that come into existence in a rare combination of seriousness and leniency.

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.

An exhibition of sunny, bucolic scenes from around Umbria, Italy, painted by Ella Yang during a residency in 2017.

With lush forests, blooming fields, and undulating mountains that have inspired everything from Herman Melville's Moby - Dick to a J. K. Rowling wizardry school, the bucolic western fringe of Massachusetts might seem an unlikely place to possess enough creative energy to rival that of most major cities.