What's the difference between idyll and pastoral?

Idyll


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

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.