bucolic
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I grew up in Pittsfield, Mass., a bucolic, General Electric factory city.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
That bucolic scene is filmed in a slow pivot around the park, cinematographer Nick Morris getting a chuckle from how the image shifts from Georges Seurat to “Hellraiser.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
When urban churchyards reached capacity in the 1830s, some U.S. cities opened cemeteries with planted trees and winding paths, creating bucolic places of remembrance and recreation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
Her listing appeared to show a pristine, albeit A.I.-generated, house with smooth textures, clean walls and windows, a nice green lawn, and a bench out front under bucolic lighting.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025
The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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