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pastoral

adjective as in peaceful, especially referring to the countryside

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In an interview on the prize website, she described “Orbital” as a space pastoral and said she wanted to write a realistic, rather than fantastic, version of humans in low Earth orbit.

Writing it, Harvey said she "thought of it as a space pastoral - a kind of nature writing about the beauty of space".

From BBC

Typically, once calves reach six or eight months, they are weaned and sent to larger, industrial pastures to roam in vast herds, fattening on grass, though this pastoral interlude is a short one.

From Salon

Dame Esther said she was concerned that the most senior Catholic in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had issued a pastoral letter urging parishioners to take action with MPs.

From BBC

And it's in his gentle, almost calming, delivery you get a sense Buchan is a man who has pastoral powers of persuasion.

From BBC

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

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