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  • The scene was at once idyllic and hallucinatory.†   (source)
  • Life in Plauen became less idyllic after Germany's defeat.†   (source)
  • In reality, the only thing that interested him on the drive was the pink marble Parthenon half hidden among leafy banana and mango trees, a luckless replica of the idyllic mansions on Louisiana cotton plantations.†   (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)
  • A lot of it was really relaxed, almost idyllic.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The wretched conditions they lived in made the circumstances of his own childhood seem idyllic.†   (source)
  • She could hardly imagine the horrors that must have played out in Martin Vanger's basement, in the midst of this well-ordered, idyllic spot.†   (source)
  • The prospect of so idyllic an interim added to the inspired stealth with which he whetted his wire, filed it to a Umber stiletto fineness.†   (source)
  • The only thing spoiling the idyllic picture was that the walls were topped with razor wire, and there were guards at the entrance to the house.†   (source)
  • Luma's childhood was idyllic by most measures, and certainly by comparison to those of most in Jordan.†   (source)
  • Another dispute about the Koran concerns the idyllic black-eyed virgins who supposedly will attend to men in the Islamic afterlife.†   (source)
  • London's not as idyllic as your grandmother's letters make it out to be."†   (source)
  • Adam considered his friends—including Jeff, Heath Vance, and Richard Williams—an extension of his family, and they bonded like brothers in what all of them felt was an idyllic country-boy upbringing.†   (source)
  • Unlike Skardu's handful of tourist resorts, which were hidden away among idyllic landscaped grounds, this clean and inexpensive hotel sat on Skardu's main road without pretension, between Changazi's compound and a PSO gas station, mere feet from the Bedfords rumbling by on their way back to Islamabad.†   (source)
  • The main dormitory area at Duke was another idyllic spot.†   (source)
  • Her studio greeted him like a memento of his past, his idyllic bachelor past.†   (source)
  • It was a view that I thought of as pastoral, idyllic, a road disappearing into the mist and mountains to a land of no worries.†   (source)
  • It stood like a monument on the hill, smack-dab in the middle of a little farming community called, idyllically, Spring Garden.†   (source)
  • Called Bush Hill, it was another setting of idyllic charm, except that the British army, during the occupation, had left hardly a tree or bush standing.†   (source)
  • In the play, Camelot represents an oasis of idyllic happiness in a cold, hard world.†   (source)
  • It wasn't always an idyllic scene.†   (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)
  • Where better could it be found than in the wild acreages of idyllic government bird sanctuaries, official parks controlled by powerful moles from the Kuomintang in Taiwan.†   (source)
  • The idyllic scene exploded into frenzied action.†   (source)
  • The balmy weather and idyllic life, described in a log now in a teak chest in Randy Bragg's office, inspired the Lieutenant to name his outpost Fort Repose.†   (source)
  • She had not completely lied to me earlier, she insisted, when she described the idyllic years of her childhood.†   (source)
  • They found an idyllic place to camp; in the shade of an outcrop of rocks and close to a stream that meandered into a looping chain of billabongs.†   (source)
  • It's naive and idyllic, but why not?†   (source)
  • His surroundings were no longer terrifying, but almost idyllic.†   (source)
  • Some crack in the perfectly idyllic landscape.†   (source)
  • Okay, call me hopelessly paranoid, but this whole place was starting to seem creep-ily idyllic.†   (source)
  • All heart and soul, and he gave us the most idyllic childhood you could imagine.†   (source)
  • The love between dog and man is idyllic.†   (source)
  • The weeks which we spent cruising the tundra plains were idyllic.†   (source)
  • Germania Springs had been an idyllic place, before that night.†   (source)
  • In an idyllic setting, even humor is subject to the sweet law of repetition.†   (source)
  • In Sea Point, which lay in an idyllic location at the foot of Signal Hill on the Atlantic coast, autumn had arrived, transforming the landscape into a sea of red, yellow, and orange hues.†   (source)
  • And it was her idea to remove the sections which she thought would bore the readers-the philosophical passages, the descriptions of my mother, the sections which paid homage to earlier poets, the places where I played with experimental verse, the more personal passages-everything, in fact, except the descriptions of the idyllic final days which, emptied of all heavier freight, came across as sentimental and insipid.†   (source)
  • Lilian and Sam saw signs declaring "White Persons Only" in front of the idyllic, picture-postcard beaches, as well as on park benches and public transport.†   (source)
  • In the end, they invited eighty people to a small, weathered chapel on Cumberland Island in spring 1997; they honeymooned in Cancun, which ended up being an idyllic choice for both of them.†   (source)
  • He was right, of course: While Tuck's had been a place of idyllic memories, it had also been the place she'd always come to cry.†   (source)
  • It must have been …. idyllic.†   (source)
  • Other than Ronnie's preoccupation with her upcoming court appearance, the only blemish on their largely idyllic summer was the continuing presence of Marcus.†   (source)
  • With every passing moment, the Kennedys seem to be living an idyllic life, where everything goes right and each day is more glamorous than the one before it.†   (source)
  • More complexes went up, with idyllic-sounding names only real estate developers could concoct: Kristopher Woods, Brannon Hill, Willow Branch, and Olde Plantation.†   (source)
  • As I told your brother, it was the best summer of my life, and I often wondered (luting those idyllic days how someone like me could have been blessed with a daughter as wonderful as you.†   (source)
  • It was an idyllic time in many ways.†   (source)
  • But even as John Kennedy stands before this idyllic gathering, seeing the warmth and smiles that come with honoring such a distinguished and legendary world leader, his thoughts are never far from another "Churchill"—and another war that is gaining steam.†   (source)
  • An idyllic still life of apples, nuts, and a tiny, candle-lit Christmas tree showing a hand ripping through the canvas.†   (source)
  • The temptation was both poignant and powerful, and it lasted for as long as it took me to read the letter twice more and to brood over the house and its homely lawn again, all of it seemingly suspended in a milky idyllic mist, which may, however, have been the result of the film's overexposure.†   (source)
  • Idyllic follies never last, my little Chauvelin ….†   (source)
  • That's all very well as an idyllic episode, but for your whole life that won't answer.†   (source)
  • I keep asserting that I have given up all the idyllic delights of pathological research for the less fascinating but so very important and fatiguing cares of the directorship.†   (source)
  • Through the scene between Marguerite and the elder Duval, Lena wept unceasingly, and I sat helpless to prevent the closing of that chapter of idyllic love, dreading the return of the young man whose ineffable happiness was only to be the measure of his fall.†   (source)
  • It reminded you not of Watteau, whose landscapes are so idyllic that they recall only the woodland glens seen in dreams, but of the more prosaic Jean-Baptiste Pater.†   (source)
  • Decidedly this simple and yet idyllic compound of the commonplace had all the luster and wonder of a spiritual transfiguration, the true mirage of the lost and thirsting and seeking victim of the desert.†   (source)
  • This was the view he took of his love affair; it was idyllic, a little solemn, and also true, since his belief had all the unshakable seriousness of youth.†   (source)
  • He had entertained no notion, when doomed as he had thought to an unintellectual bucolic life, that such charms as he beheld in this idyllic creature would be found behind the scenes.†   (source)
  • And had it been up to him, the city administration nowadays would look just as old-fashioned and idyllic as his office had looked when he was in his prime.†   (source)
  • Two minutes later—two hectic minutes—they were disturbed by an embarrassed couple also seeking the idyllic seclusion of the overshoe-closet.†   (source)
  • My fellow-creatures, from whom I was thus separated, began to assume idyllic virtue and beauty in my memory.†   (source)
  • …. that idyllic folly," said Chauvelin, with quiet sarcasm, "did not then survive the lapse of …. weeks?"†   (source)
  • Just love and summer, and idyllic and happy progress toward an eventual secure and unopposed union which should give him to her forever.†   (source)
  • Though not born there, he had a peculiar affection for the Isle of Thanet, and he was fired with enthusiasm at the thought of spending a fortnight so close to the earth and amid conditions which needed only a blue sky to be as idyllic as the olive groves of Arcady.†   (source)
  • She must have been a veritable girl of the late eighties and the early nineties, the naive and idyllic age of Howells, when young men were pure, when they played croquet and sang Swanee River; a girl who sat on a front porch enchanted by the sweetness of lilacs, and hoped that when Almus and she were married they would have a nickel-plated baseburner stove and a son who would become a missionary or a millionaire.†   (source)
  • To engage in such idyllic practices, a man had to have an amazing surplus of one of life's most precious commodities: time.†   (source)
  • One Sunday they had all gone with a tea-basket into the forest, and when they came to a glade which was suitably sylvan, Miss Chalice, because it was idyllic, insisted on taking off her shoes and stockings.†   (source)
  • It was after its fashion an idyllic spot with a little band-stand out on an island near the center of the lake and on the shore a grave and captive bear in a cage.†   (source)
  • An idyllic affair of the heart, my gracious lady," he said, holding Luise Ziemssen's hand in his two shovel-size mitts and gazing down at her from his protruding, watery, bloodshot blue eyes.†   (source)
  • He crossed the wooden bridge and sat down to enjoy the sight of the falling water and rushing foam, to listen to its idyllic chatter, a monotone filled with interior variety.†   (source)
  • And how few, how few words, I thought, in passing, were needed; how little of the idyllic (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too) had sufficed to turn a whole human life at once according to my will.†   (source)
  • Here, on the hay, in these idyllic surroundings, far from the world and the eyes of men, it wouldn't matter.†   (source)
  • That stalwart rogue Adam was more susceptible than the rector had thought; it was really quite an idyllic love affair; and if it had not been too long to tell in a letter, he would have liked to describe to Arthur the blushing looks and the simple strong words with which the fine honest fellow told his secret.†   (source)
  • The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations.†   (source)
  • Homer is equally confident that his plan is under way, and has the panache to insert an idyllic comedy of love, the story of Hera's 'seduction of Zeus in Book XIV.†   (source)
  • [In accents of dread, BEN'S idyllic music starts up.†   (source)
  • It was idyllic: and Father Conmee reflected on the providence of the Creator who had made turf to be in bogs whence men might dig it out and bring it to town and hamlet to make fires in the houses of poor people.†   (source)
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