(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.
Peasant
Definition:
(n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
(a.) Rustic, rural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(2) Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a "peasants' revolt", a cohort without influence.
(3) Agroecology guarantees land to peasants, species diversity, decent work and food sovereignty, among other principles.
(4) As secretary general of La Via Campesina , the transnational peasant movement, he is the public voice of nearly 200 million small-scale producers, landless people, and farm and food workers in more than 180 organisations across nearly 90 countries.
(5) Cinematically, RED SORGHUM achieved a fantastically rich colour palette in its politically less-than-correct depiction of Chinese peasant life – blood and earth predominate – and trod a careful political line by focusing on atrocities by the invading Japanese rather than internal repression.
(6) Tellingly, loyal peasants relate how Guzmán chartered aircraft to take their children to the state capital for medical treatment, like a good old-school mafia don.
(7) It is expected that among the pupils of vocational mining schools who usually come from numerous peasant and working class families nutritional mistakes may occur very often.
(8) Nordestinos brought their hearty, meaty peasant cuisine with them, and one former factory worker, Jose Oliveira de Almeid, called simply Seu Ze, opened a small restaurant called Mocotó in the working-class suburb of Villa Medeiros.
(9) I might have said a few things after other forms of medication that I shouldn’t have done, but then again we all have, haven’t we?” Smith stood down as candidate for South Basildon and East Thurrock – regarded as one of Ukip’s most winnable target constituencies – this month after the release of a recording of a phone call in which he mocked gay party members as “poofters”, joked about shooting people from Chigwell in a “peasant hunt” and referred to someone as a “Chinky bird”.
(10) The field trial indicated that the grass carp could not only cut down the mosquito larvae population but also benefit the peasants by increasing the production of both fish and rice.
(11) Two ethnic groups in Laos were compared: the Hmong (or Meo), a tribal group with access to opium in their homes; and the Lao, a peasant people with more limited access, usually in opium dens.
(12) This case is observed in a 24 years old woman patient, of peasant extraction, who presents tumoration of the left hemiface, irregularly oval, 18 x 25 cm.
(13) In rural areas, plantation owners have a grip on local politics in the northeast that is little short of feudal, while the soy and cattle barons of the interior push landless peasants and Indian communities further to the margins.
(14) La Via Campesina has been lobbying in Geneva for a UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.
(15) The newspaper said he joked about “shooting peasants”, referred to a woman with a Chinese name as a “chinky”, made claims he later retracted about the party leader, Nigel Farage, and called Steven Woolfe, Ukip’s immigration spokesman, a “fucking carpetbagger” and an “arsehole”.
(16) Historically, our masters have always imagined we lowly peasants will digest information more easily if it is written, for example, in a speech bubble coming out of the mouth of an imaginary squirrel pedestrian in yellow loon pants.
(17) Studies about life-time sport of different groups of population in Switzerland showed that 82% of 1990 apprentices in the town of Zürich and 59% of young peasants were active in sports in their leisure time.
(18) The article reports the results of the investigation on atmospheric pollution and mercury poisoning caused by the peasants mercury smelting.
(19) And, like all peasant messiahs, Mao promised a society in which all men would be equal.
(20) But soon after being appointed archbishop in 1977, he became a staunch critic of the military government after it began killing, kidnapping and arresting priests who had been organising peasants and supporting workers’ rights.