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pastoral

adjective as in peaceful, especially referring to the countryside

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Takeda’s video-collage shuttles rapidly through various photo-based locations, usually urban but occasionally as pastoral as in previous year’s shows.

An example that I’m aware of was a big wind farm in Kenya, and it was on pastoral land belonging to pastoralists.

These aren’t the idyllic, pastoral farms we’re taught to picture as children, with birds free to wander around in the greenery.

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For a short stroll or run, check out pastoral Harmon Canyon Preserve, which slices through the mountainous foothills perched at the city’s northern edge.

Those posts cite prominent conversion “therapists” and include a video with advice for conversion therapy practitioners and others that falsely suggest “Schema therapy” and “professionals and pastoral mentors” can successfully change LGBTQ people.

He is to be admired for his kindness and genuine pastoral concern for all the members of his flock.

The carriage drivers insist that a great majority of their horses live to enjoy a pastoral retirement.

Fast forward about 20 years, and this American Pastoral image of college seems, for the average college student, an ancient dream.

It is a novel of suspense and secrets, a pastoral novel that slowly tears the pastoral apart.

For most of the year, pastoral Pag is home to roughly eight thousand residents and thirty thousand indigenous sheep.

The abnormal rise in wages had the bad effect of inducing the natives to leave their pastoral pursuits to flock into the towns.

Alàri, too, offers a marvellously carved wooden cup, adorned with pastoral scenes.

Can you imagine anything more pastoral than a traffic in cream and butter and eggs?

Stowmarket, as I have said, had the honour of being placed under the pastoral care of one of these Smectymnian divines.

In addition Broken Hill is the centre of one of the largest pastoral districts in Australia.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pastoral, such as: agrarian, bucolic, idyllic, rural, rustic, and arcadian.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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