bucolic
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His harsh rebuke of her in an ironically bucolic setting is the movie’s most memorable scene.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Mr. Weir’s lead vocals had the bucolic appeal of freshly cut hay.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 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
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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