What is "idyllic"

Usage examples of "idyllic".

She forced herself to leave that idyllic picture to examine the rest of the adobe house.

Lady Laura March night was becoming a regular visitor to Dilling ham Court, where she and Polly would walk together in the gardens or set their easels up with some idyllic aspect before them, in the hope of capturing it in watercolours or charcoal.

The idyllic scene contrasted sharply with the tension gripping the mounted men, men who were as accustomed to danger as most others were to monotony, and while Leif eagerly filled his lungs with the fragrant morning air, he imagined it held the taste of the blood that would be spilt this day.

I tried not to think about idyllic, rivery scenes: me bagging the best table in the sun while my perfect accessory went to the bar.

Earth is a quiet, rather idyllic world these days-a skyful of ragged cities will create a lot of alarm there.

The picture Wrangel gives of their life together has an idyllic quality that Dostoevsky was not to know again for many years.

But lest the toils of the new settlement should affright his readers, our author draws an idyllic picture of the simple pleasures which nature and liberty afford here freely, but which cost so dearly in England.

COCOONED IN THEm farmhouse, tending to garden and ll chickens, Burton and Veronique spent an idyllic weekend, I choosing by mutual consent not to speak of the future.

There is a change from the pretty garden of the first scene, with its idyllic music, to the gathering place of witches and warlocks, high up in the Brocken, in the second.

And yet there is no possible comparison between these two modes of repetition, between, on one hand, the ironic donjuanesque journey and, on the other, the circularity of an idyllic world driven by the nostalgia for paradise lost.

In the logicless way of dreams, the grassy field transformed itself into an idyllic playground, with slides and swings and seesaws and toys strewn everywhere.

Rozanov fantasized of a patriarchal, but tolerant world in which homosexuals would be recognised as a sort of creative monastic community, in which prostitution would be reorganised into an idyllic, almost religious evening ritual and in which the onanist would find a way out of his isolation and melancholy.

We sat in an idyllic, multiwindowed sunroom that looked out on the idyllic backyard.

And even during his idyllic stay of eight years on the isle of Calypso, he would often be found on the beach alone, gazing homeward, out to sea.

The careless happiness of the children, the apprehension of the parents, promise and fulfilment, enchantment and disenchantment--all these things are expounded by the orchestra in a fine flood of music, highly ingenious in contrapuntal texture, rich in instrumental color, full of rhythmical life, on the surface of which the idyllic play floats buoyantly, like a water-lily which starts and slides Upon the level in little puffs of wind, Tho' anchored to the bottom.