(1) He accused the army of a "catastrophic breakdown" in military discipline and described the MoD's attempts to dismiss all the allegations as an "Arcadian fantasy".
(2) Arcadian Painters , he bills the pairing, his working premise being that the veteran American artist (who died on 5 July 2011) shares with the 17th-century Frenchman a devotion to classical antiquity.
(3) At Dulwich there's an assiduous School-of-Raphael-style battle drawing from 1625 and more attractively, a 1628 canvas, The Arcadian Shepherds , echoing Titian at his most sensuous and poetic.
(4) The number of nervous processes becomes greater; degree of their ramification increases; a part of neurons of Dogiel II type turns into multiprocessive neurons with some signs of Dogiel I type cells; growth cones and arcadian structures are present; giant processes appear; thick nervous fasciculi are formed; volume of the neuron bodies increases more intensively.
(5) Arcadian Painters turns out to be a study in twinned forms of vivid awkwardness.
(6) Dusty Greenwell Park is not the most arcadian of retreats.
(7) In a blistering attack on the MoD, he accused it of "dereliction of legal, moral and professional duty" and a "catastrophic breakdown" in military discipline, and said the ministry's attempts to dismiss all the allegations were an "Arcadian fantasy".
(8) And in any case, Britain – or, rather, England - has long had an ingrained conservatism, there in everything from our eternal fondness for the idea of some lost Arcadian age , to the clarion call of the great English radical William Cobbett , which suits the time of Brexit as well as it fitted the late 18th and early 19th centuries: “We want great alteration, but we want nothing new.” But something more insidious is also going on.
(9) Yet it's not their flocks that Poussin's Arcadians attend to, but an inscription on a tomb.
(10) Glossy advertising to attract this baby boomer herd tends to feature gentle images of arcadian bliss, of smiling men and women, white, smiling, heterosexual, smiling, holding hands, smiling, enjoying communal barbeques minus smoke and smell, smiling, playing card games in ordered, uncluttered scenes of dustless domesticity, smiling, dressed in styles that don’t come out of local chainstores, smiling, a couple frolicking on a swing, smiling, she's in sensible lavender swirl, he's outfitted by RM Williams, and is pushing her, gently, smiling, against a background of manicured lawns and gardens, all bathed in photoshopped sunlight.
(11) The sun always shines in the world of The Great British Bake Off, an Arcadian land where the currency is compliments, innuendo and pie.
Rustic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.
(a.) Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
(a.) Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
(n.) An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
(n.) A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Camp out, rustic-style, at the Observatorio Astronómico de la Tatacoa, 4km east of Villavieja.
(2) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(3) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(4) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .
(5) and steaming up Norris's glasses with plans to turn the Rovers into a rustic-inspired gastropub with cross-generational plate-appeal ("Cumberland sausage is all the rage in Clitheroe …").
(6) There is a bucolic tendency running deep in the national character, expressing itself in a love of rustic poets and painters, and it is this part of us that has turned to fury at the coalition government and its prosaically named Draft National Planning Policy Framework.
(7) But when we get there the restaurant, with its rustic dacha -style Russian decor, leaves us both feeling slightly spooked.
(8) For something typical of the rustic northern countryside, try cabrito asado , a slow-roasted young goat cooked in a wood-burning oven.
(9) Maní is more rustic and informal than DOM – simple furniture, whitewashed walls and a ceiling of dried branches laid over rafters – but the food is no less adventurous.
(10) Anyone looking for simple, rustic, affordable experiences in priceless locations will find they’re in luck.
(11) Hidden gems and locals’ tips Mountain cabins In every highland region in Spain there will be a selection of rustic mountain cabins: refugios de montaña .
(12) This Anglo-Brazilian affair offers the best of both worlds: four rustic bungalows hidden away in rainforest, near a handful of easily accessed beaches.
(13) Cameron’s rustic ruin David Cameron has acquired a faux-rustic shepherd’s hut , in which he is hoping to write.
(14) Outside Kramatorsk's aerodrome, meanwhile, at the end of a rustic rutted alley lined with sycamores and apricots, protesters had set up a new camp.
(15) Inspired by the traditional architecture of Polish summer houses, or datchas , the owners have kitted out the apartments with real flair: rustic wooden furniture, sheepskin throws, woodburning stoves, luxury bedlinen and bathrooms.
(16) As well as rows of semi-automatic weapons of all colours and sizes there are tables with a range of handguns and accessories: Eagle grips in ultra pearl black and ivory polymer, Hornady bullets ("accurate, deadly, dependable") and general appeals to the rustic, manly and patriotic.
(17) The music marked the return of the accordion to French politics, not seen since the faux-rustic former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing played it in the 1970s – an important message about Hollande's rural, Mr Normal image.
(18) Hernández re-creates not only their rustic speech, but also the natural prosody peculiar to the peasant.
(19) Winning tip: Casa Guedes, Porto Casa Guedes , in the old centre of Porto (130 Praças Poveiros) serves juicy slabs of roast pork in rustic brown rolls, stuck together with oozing sheep’s cheese.
(20) The fresh, contemporary decor – all cool whites and soft greys – makes a refreshing change from the heavy, rustic look typically found in French gîtes.