(a.) Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
(n.) A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his 1934 work English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the so-called "real, enduring England", which spoke to Boyle's bucolic "Jerusalem" opening with its maypoles and cricket, maids and mummery.
(2) Listening to Fleet Foxes, it seemed inconceivable that anyone had ever mocked the acoustic and the bucolic.
(3) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
(4) I n the spring of 1945,” says the narrator, over bucolic springtime shots of the German countryside, “the allies advancing into the heart of Germany came to Bergen-Belsen.
(5) Michael shared with Sebald a passion for East Anglia, settling with his wife Anne File (the poet Anne Beresford, whom he married in 1951) into a bucolic existence surrounded by fruit rees, especially apple trees.
(6) After all, on old MacDonald’s bucolic farm the cows grazed contentedly on verdant fields.
(7) Even in his most innocent work, My Neighbour Totoro , a film in which there are no evil characters and no apparent conflict, the threat of a sick mother's death hangs over the bucolic idyll of its two young sisters.
(8) He also imagined himself sitting on a grassy knoll in Poland, a country he had never visited, surrounded by rolling hills as dawn broke over the roof of the world on 26 May to reveal not a bucolic scene but the reality of his position – perched over a white abyss.
(9) Barack and Michelle Obama’s life after the White House will begin in Kalorama, a bucolic, elegant and diplomat-studded area of Washington, according to reports officials declined to confirm.
(10) 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.
(11) In a bucolic corner of the County Kerry coastline, pub chain owner Oliver Hughes has opened one of a few independent whiskey distilleries in Ireland.
(12) A year ago on Saturday, in a bucolic corner of Connecticut that was known for little except the quality of life enjoyed by its citizens, 20 young children and six teaching staff were killed as they began another ordinary day at Sandy Hook elementary school.
(13) It is one of the rocky outcrops overlooking the bucolic valley of Qunu, where South Africa's first black president grew up and which, at 93, he still calls home.
(14) A fabulous short film now in the British Film Industry’s archive explained this vision to the public, showing bucolic fields being covered with the first futuristic buildings.
(15) From the banjo-picking soundtrack to the bucolic backdrop, this ad marked a refreshing return to straightforward, uncynical campaigning and demonstrated the enduring appeal of the outsider, distant from DC horse-trading.
(16) The AIL scheme has once again delivered a really important acquisition for the nation.” The bucolic, unchanging Suffolk scene at Flatford was one Constable returned to again and again, a nostalgic symbol of the “natural” way of life.
(17) The Concord of the 1840s, where, in Thoreau's perception, men "lead lives of quiet desperation", slave-drivers of themselves with "no time to be any thing but a machine", was by our lights a bucolic world, the steam engine being the technological ultimate and the main labour farm labour.
(18) Kigenyi paints a bucolic picture and certainly during our short visit to Kibale and surrounding villages such as Nyabweya, Mabono and Bigoni we saw little evidence of obvious disgruntlement or need.
(19) Who would guarantee their safety?” Ever since, she has been living in a sanatorium, a dozen miles outside Kiev, set in a bucolic wood.
(20) People are coming here and making a difference,” the 41-year-old said, sipping iced tea on a terrace in one of the city’s most bucolic spots, Audubon Park.
Pastoral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
(a.) Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.
(n.) A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
(n.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
(n.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
Example Sentences:
(1) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
(2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(3) The evangelical pastor knew he faced an almighty task.
(4) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(5) Pastoral nomadism is a way of life in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
(6) Then Angela Merkel , daughter of an East German Protestant pastor, became Germany's first female chancellor on 22 November 2005.
(7) There was no acknowledgement in the agreement of the “deep pain these decisions will cause, nor any concern for the pastoral care of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex] Christians,” she said.
(8) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
(9) Merkel, whose father was a pastor in communist Eastern Germany , has suddenly discovered a deep affection for the downtrodden people of Greece.
(10) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
(11) There was another accident on the first lap when Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus got squeezed into the barriers following a minor collision between the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen.
(12) How much time should be spent on reviewing progress and achieving standards, compared to pastoral care?
(13) Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse “Chibok was taken by Boko Haram.
(14) Discussion of the patient's condition, technicalities, and judicial consequences with the next of kin, attendants, a pastor, and another physician is a necessary prelude.
(15) I think it’s okay as a Catholic to get my guidance as a Catholic from the Pope but certainly not economic policy or environmental policy.” Trump has previously questioned the faith of another adversary, Ted Cruz, saying: “You gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, OK?” Cruz’s father is an evangelical pastor who emigrated from Cuba, and the senator has pursued extremely religious voters throughout his campaign.
(16) These plans are a far cry from the desires of Atlah’s Rev David Manning, who became pastor of the church in 1981.
(17) Over the weekend, Nehemiah Fischer, a 35-year-old pastor, was shot dead by an Oklahoma state trooper after getting into a fight when told to evacuate his truck in rising flood waters south of Tulsa.
(18) The son of a Congolese pastor, he trained as a gynaecologist and went on to treat thousands of women gang-raped during the DRC conflict , becoming a world expert in repairing vaginas.
(19) Pastoral systems must focus on effective management of grazing pressure of the rangelands.
(20) "I acknowledge that Superman sermon notes are definitely not for every pastor or church setting.