bucolic

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Befitting the brothers’ upbringing, the group’s music has tended to have a bucolic air, suggesting rolling hills and dark forests rather than the urban expanse more common to its genre.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

By contrast, “Shard II” is austere and cinematic, with Mr. Gilmore’s tom-toms—both live and reproduced—gently underpinning bucolic keyboards from Mr. Moran.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

The sun is starting to go down outside — this is the time of day, he says, when Chaplin’s bucolic grounds remind him of Montecito’s San Ysidro Ranch — and he’s getting slightly philosophical.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2026

Against bucolic and urban images of industry and humanity, Reagan begins in his unmistakable voice, “When someone says ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing.”

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

At home, he and Oppenheimer would take long walks around Berkeley and into the bucolic woods of Northern California.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik