Sentences with phrase «like bucolic»

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

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

Lime Rock, to this novice at least, seems like a bucolic dreamscape, a circa 1957 old - school racetrack, with not too much in the way of hills or bends to remember but plenty to engage the mind.

Not exact matches

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

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

However, the boho look is like a recipe in which you always find some ingredients: a little ethnic touch, some bucolic or rustic accessories, lots of white, hats etc..

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.

The otherworldly quality to the mind - boggling visuals aside, Legend looks like a recent film — sounds it, too, in Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 configurations that immerse you in bucolic exteriors and fire - and - brimstone interiors of constant ambience.

It feels like far too long since French writer and director Xavier Beauvois's bucolic and earthy filmmaking graced the screen stateside.

Cone lays down each scene of this calming coming - of - age story like he's building a matchstick house, instilling Miranda's Chicago intelligentsia existence with bucolic calmness, and making Cyd's journey — which entangles her with barista name Katie — a bold, photographic statement that's simply a pleasure to witness.

Curmudgeonly and vicious, it's a lighter - than - air farce with a black heart that feels suspiciously like the mad rantings of an old soldier describing his vision of a bucolic Valhalla to which he one day hopes to return.

Where Hardy went, misery followed, and while this bucolic yarn feels like The Wizard of Oz next to such angst fests as Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Jude the Obscure, it's full of the unhappy marriages, tragic deaths, thwarted lovers and frustrated ambitions that crowd the margins of his other work.

Like «North by Northwest,» the bucolic setting turns threatening, and Hitchcockian pacing is at work throughout.

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.

It also occurs to me that driving through Nebraska is like being on a gigantic treadmill in front of a greenscreen that depicts bucolic scenery on an endlessly repeating loop.

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»).

Whether in a city like New York or on a bucolic Italian lake, we've got special perks for you.

Nearby, William Villalongo presents a different utopian vision in «Jubilee», a painting shaped like a fan depicting a bucolic scene that's somewhere between «The Luncheon on the Grass» and the decor one might encounter during lunch at a Chinese restaurant.

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.

The final drawing in the series is a Gazing globe, which combines reflection, reduction and escape in a misty gem like mirror drawing of a bucolic setting.

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.

This has led to wonderful tourist attractions like mutant sheep, thoroughly contaminated fields still used for farming, poisonous mozzarella, and to the realization that the bucolic images of Southern Italy you see on those cheesy postcards at the Naples International Airport are utter bullshit.

The planthouses aren't as intricate and Zen - like as some of the other works we've seen previously, but there is a simple, bucolic charm to their ramshackle appearance.

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.

I thought, «how bucolic» until they chased us around the property with their wings extended like 747s.

While many models are rustic (think a woodshed on wheels), some showcase stunning sleek designs, high - tech amenities that seem more spaceship - like than bucolic, and green features like solar paneling and roofs made of recycled steel.