arcadian
Example Sentences
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Most naturist resorts are arcadian retreats from city life.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2015
It idealises its lowlifes as if they were arcadian shepherds, not so very remote from the outlaws, buckaroos, rodeo riders and Appalachian rustics in Aaron Copland's ballets.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2010
The elegant ladies in long robes who cavort under a canopy of trees in Cross’s arcadian “L’Air du Soir” feel entirely decorative and superfluous.
From Washington Post
One may doubt whether the women's work of gleaning after harvest was normally as dignified and arcadian as Breton suggested in The Gleaners, 1854.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And if we may accept the impressions of an English observer, life in the Shenandoah Valley was in happy accord, in the middle of the century, with the arcadian simplicity of these ideals.
From Beginnings of the American People by William E. Dodd