idyll
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Other writers might have given us the idyll, but in Mr. Hoffman’s eyes the idyll is a troubled one, showing us that “home can be both a place and a way of getting there.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Many say the idyll began to unravel when New Delhi appointed civil servant Jayanti Ravi to head Auroville in 2021.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
In what has all the hallmarks of a staged "scoop", this week's front page carries photographs of the couple taken recently on holiday in Corsica with the headline "The idyll that no-one expected."
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
I could drift along like this, in some dreary proletarian idyll, except for two things.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Vocabulary lists containing idyll
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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