(n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.
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(1) Burros & Artes offers tailormade tours from two to eight days from an idyllic base in the Vale das Amoreiras near Aljezur, just over the border in the Algarve.
(2) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.
(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) 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.
(5) • Rorbu for four from £140 a night, svinoya.no Grande Hytteutleige, Geirangerfjord Facebook Twitter Pinterest Waterfalls, vertiginous green slopes and a meandering, idyllic waterway explain why Unesco-protected Geirangerfjord is one of Norway’s premier tourist spots.
(6) In Italy, attitudes towards homosexuality are still pretty conservative, so the Italian distributor of Stranger By the Lake – a French thriller about a killer at large in an idyllic gay-cruising area – had to be careful about its publicity.
(7) And it already has some towers, so it would be absurd to go back to some low-rise idyll.
(8) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
(9) Yet to black Americans who are all too familiar with the burdens of segregation and the struggle for equality, this idyllic image of a gentle country without racial strife sounds like absurd propaganda.
(10) Grace Roffe Idyllic village, Nepal Facebook Twitter Pinterest The entrance to the village shrine, Kakani.
(11) Elliot Rodger enjoyed an idyllic childhood in the English countryside, but felt rejected and alienated when he joined a Sussex prep school, according to his online "manifesto".
(12) The hospitality was some of the best we have ever received and we cannot recommend this idyllic spot enough.
(13) A block further sits what locals call “Beverly Hills”, an idyllic town square that seems a million miles from the rest of Havana: a gentrified bubble that’s home to the first signs of Western capitalist franchising.
(14) In the course of several days of formal and informal talks, in the idyllic setting of Woods Hole, the impression grew among many of the participants that useful common themes have emerged for comparison among sensory transduction systems.
(15) With its heady media mix of graphic violence and utopian idylls, Isis has sought recruits and supporters who are further down the path toward ideological radicalisation or more inclined by personal disposition toward violence.
(16) There are pictures of idyllic holidays, wonderful dinners, beautiful gardens, crazy parties.
(17) If the first two and a half decades of independence in India represent an idyll (granted, an inexorably endangered one), then the Sikhs play an essential role in it of what an idyllic community, even an ideal minority, in a somewhat arbitrarily conceived federal set-up might look like.
(18) But the Obama administration refuses to accept this unusual intrusion of justice into its island idyll.
(19) In the meantime there are plenty of good opportunities for any cash-rich Brits on the look out for an island idyll.
(20) Smillie will discuss the history and culture of beautiful European locations, while her programme design team will scour local markets with which to create an idyllic home at each location.