arcadian

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Plans for techno-Xanadus contrast with Arcadian proposals that hope to return humans closer to nature.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Nor did Vaughan Williams, a student socialist who remained left-leaning, always flee the present into an Arcadian past, despite the wistfulness of works like his Oboe Concerto.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022

Golden light illuminates a carefully organized Arcadian landscape at the end of the day.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 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