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  • In the 1980s, Middletown had a proud, almost idyllic downtown: a bustling shopping center, restaurants that had operated since before World War II, and a few bars where men like Papaw would gather and have a beer (or many) after a hard day at the steel mill.†  (source)
  • All in all, Narewka in the 1930s was a pretty idyllic place to grow up.†  (source)
  • I couldn't square my grandfather's idyllic stories with this nightmare house, nor the idea that he'd found refuge here with the sense of disaster that pervaded it.†  (source)
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  • Nadia had long been, and would afterwards continue to be, more comfortable with all varieties of movement in her life than was Saeed, in whom the impulse of nostalgia was stronger, perhaps because his childhood had been more idyllic, or perhaps because this was simply his temperament.†  (source)
  • It stood like a monument on the hill, smack-dab in the middle of a little farming community called, idyllically, Spring Garden.†  (source)
  • A lot of it was really relaxed, almost idyllic.†  (source)
  • It was perhaps the most idyllic week I'd ever spent.†  (source)
  • But everything was not idyllic.†  (source)
  • Let's explore what happened to send your family from that idyllic existence in Blount out into the night on that bus ....He could still remember his father's voice in the cellar that day, and the Ping-Pong ball like a small planet suspended in space, his father's voice holding him captive, enthralled—and yet a small part of him was isolated and alone, a part that was not Adam Farmer any longer but Paul Delmonte.†  (source)
  • As the cello played, the video showed painting after painting of angelic-looking figures, idyllic landscapes, and a profile view of a man who was clearly meant to be Christ.†  (source)
  • Another dispute about the Koran concerns the idyllic black-eyed virgins who supposedly will attend to men in the Islamic afterlife.†  (source)
  • The Vale of Arryn might have been spared the worst of the war, but it was hardly the idyllic place that Lady Lysa had made it out to be.†  (source)
  • The scene was at once idyllic and hallucinatory.†  (source)
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