bucolic
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I don’t want its bucolic spirit to change with the footfall of tourists.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
That bucolic scene is filmed in a slow pivot around the park, cinematographer Nick Morris getting a chuckle from how the image shifts from Georges Seurat to “Hellraiser.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
When urban churchyards reached capacity in the 1830s, some U.S. cities opened cemeteries with planted trees and winding paths, creating bucolic places of remembrance and recreation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
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
At home, he and Oppenheimer would take long walks around Berkeley and into the bucolic woods of Northern California.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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