arcadian

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In John Knowles’s portrait of the boys’ Arcadian lives, World War II seems very far away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Few things evoke as enchanting an Arcadian ideal — and as romantic a vision of the Italian old world — as the intense bond between truffle hunters and their dogs.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2023

But repopulating Italy’s small towns can’t simply be an exercise in nostalgia, an attempt to re-create some Arcadian idyll cut off from modern amenities and infrastructure, renowned architect Stefano Boeri said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2021

All this Arcadian plenty has tempted in the carnivores, who crept in quietly at first, testing the waters.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2020

Then they descended out of the America of factory work and tyrannical foremen into an Arcadian grotto of forgetfulness.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides