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halcyon

adjective as in calm, peaceful

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In retrospect, 2009 and 2010 were halcyon days in the Middle East, now that we seem just one horseman short of an apocalypse.

The halcyon days of Wolf, the third-wave feminist revolutionary and author of The Beauty Myth (1990), seem far, far away.

Without a bribed official, a halcyon, or eagle, will watch the entry point with binoculars for patterns and opportunities.

The mixed-media collection evokes nostalgia for halcyon days through fragmented images of the past.

On the Impossible Past will transport you back to your halcyon, angsty teenage years.

Relatively, it touches those old times when religious houses, with their quaintly-trimmed orders, were in their halcyon days.

And yet subsequent generations have viewed with unconcern this halcyon period in the history of art.

This is the halcyon period of primers, introductions, handbooks, manuals.

Do you know the periods when the Mediterranean is troubled, and when the wintry halcyon days come?

Sleighing parties from Wheeling frequented this old tavern in the halcyon days of the road, and were handsomely entertained.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to halcyon, such as: bucolic, pastoral, quiet, still, at peace, and balmy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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