bucolic
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By contrast, “Shard II” is austere and cinematic, with Mr. Gilmore’s tom-toms—both live and reproduced—gently underpinning bucolic keyboards from Mr. Moran.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
The memorial thereby manages to combine formality—in tribute to Hunt’s classicism—with serenity, in acknowledgment of its bucolic setting in an urban oasis.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Looking back on her bucolic childhood in L.A.,
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025
Against bucolic and urban images of industry and humanity, Reagan begins in his unmistakable voice, “When someone says ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing.”
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025
The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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