arcadian

Example Sentences

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Most naturist resorts are arcadian retreats from city life.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2015

It idealises its lowlifes as if they were arcadian shepherds, not so very remote from the outlaws, buckaroos, rodeo riders and Appalachian rustics in Aaron Copland's ballets.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2010

The elegant ladies in long robes who cavort under a canopy of trees in Cross’s arcadian “L’Air du Soir” feel entirely decorative and superfluous.

From Washington Post

These works demonstrate that Rauschenberg is at heart an arcadian, obsessed with emblems of uncorrupted nature and their parallels in culture.

From Time Magazine Archive

He thanked God that he had come from the broad sunny vineyards of the Golden State, where life still touches the arcadian age,—not from this, as his wife had!

From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert