Adjective : his idyllic life in Tahiti. From Dictionary.com.
I can savor it better over coffee when everyone is idyllically quiet this afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [02.04] Reference
It was Franklin who strung a high-tension line from a thundercloud to a green pasture in idyllically rural. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 - Presentation Speech] Reference
He sets “The Sun Also Rises” in an idyllic — and idyllically rowdy — Europe with one foot still in the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [You Know Your Hemingway? Pretty to Think So] Reference
She was now living alone — except for a few servants — in a cottage in the village of Bowood and claimed to be idyllically happy. From Wordnik.com. [Irresistible]
I was in a child's world, idyllically drifting with the wind, sloughing off the dreary earthbound millstones, free and rising and filled with intense delight. From Wordnik.com. [Whip Hand]
As I ventured out into rural farming villages, idyllically green valleys set in stark canyons below high white peaks, I found Tibetan people ... just being themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Schrei: The Ladakh Cloudburst: An Eyewitness Account] Reference
Fans will not just root for the brave boy, but accompany him all the way as a small town that looks idyllically rustic conceals danger lurking behind the serene façade. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Child-John Hart « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
It is true that in the Fragonard painting exquisitely dressed aristocrats are idyllically swinging in lavish gardens, but the clouds gathering above overpower the happy scene. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
There's nothing like staring out over the clouds and Atlantic Ocean below en route home from Europe on the 4th of July to idyllically daydream what a President Barack Obama could. From Wordnik.com. [Amb. Marc Ginsberg: What in the World Can Obama Do?] Reference
The couple have been looking to buy for about six months -- since their summer wedding -- and are thrilled to have found this apartment idyllically located “on a tree lined cobblestone street.”. From Wordnik.com. [Vassar President Sells to Nesting Newlyweds] Reference
Weymouth, that rambling stretch of towns and hamlets, of summer colony and suburb, possesses in certain areas bits of rural landscape as serene, as dewy, as idyllically tranquil as Constable at his best. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference
The sameoutcomes would occur if somehow that peskyChávez could be removed so thathis country could again becheaply ravagedandthe sameonescould, idyllically, take place inAfrica, where US military troops are currently engaged. From Wordnik.com. [On Cooperation and Competition] Reference
It was idyllically and typically English, that ideal England of artists which is dreamed of and loved by the sons and daughters of the Colonies, who, thinking of "home" which they have never seen, think of such a scene of verdant and homely peace. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
Evelio Rosero's The Armies begins almost idyllically, in a garden. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
"Sposalizio" the female heads are singularly noble and idyllically graceful. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
Don Draper, and his wife moving out of Manhattan to an idyllically Rockwellian small town. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The group he looked at was as idyllically peaceful as wayfarers might be after the heat and burden of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrant Trail] Reference
The policeman, she said, further suggested a "zipper" approach - vehicles idyllically merging on an alternating basis. From Wordnik.com. [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference
He works mainly at night so he's not interrupted, and he retreats -- he has multiple idyllically located vacations homes. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Company] Reference
They were a stodgy old couple enough now, and snoring idyllically in duet after a life of storms and tears and discontents in spite of wealth. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
The pretty little town of Mandal is divided by the river Madalselva and our camping place was idyllically situated directly opposite the river. From Wordnik.com. [What's For Lunch Honey? | Experience Your Senses] Reference
"The western has always been the most idyllically homosocial of modes - and often one concerned with the programmatic exclusion of women," writes. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Among the many picturesque episodes in Tasso's wanderings none is more idyllically beautiful than the tale of his meeting with this handsome youth. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
Doyle carries on his good work for avant-garde directors, with this wonderful piece of cinematography that complements Jarmusch's writing idyllically. From Wordnik.com. [Directors Notes] Reference
Despite a certain lack of hooks, and a plethora of ´sort a like´ from Tim, I would recommend this place as idyllically set, efficiently run and truly home from home. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Whatever the reason, join us in our idyllically over-idealized, idealized dream-like pictorial tribute to the great automotive dealerships of the halcyon days of yesteryear. From Wordnik.com. [Jalopnik] Reference
Gillies and her English professor husband were living idyllically with their young sons in a dream house in Oberlin, Ohio, when her husband announced, "This marriage is over!". From Wordnik.com. [Literary Mama: Literary Mama Home] Reference
The island is a tasteful gaggle of hotel buildings idyllically situated amid rustic charm: walking paths, beaches, trees and slabs of glacier-carved granite sloping into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
As great as the picture looks-and as much as I had imagined it just as idyllically-much of my time was spent getting frustrated at Luke (it's easy to forget that he's only 3) and yelling. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle & Child] Reference
The evening and next day drifted by uneventfully but idyllically, consisting mostly of trekking our separate ways between the hostel atop the hill and the promenade and pebbly beaches below. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
TV shows and toys from Fisher Price reinforce the idea that the cattle Americans consume spend their lives grazing idyllically on wholesome grass out in the fields, when the reality for many was that the to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy] Reference
Nor did he fail to live up to this opening liberality; for after guiding them through the Mall and the Ramble he led the way to a rustic restaurant where, also at his expense, they fared idyllically on milk and lemon-pie. From Wordnik.com. [Bunner Sisters] Reference
Though I am always most fascinated with the portrayal of NYC through the years, I have also been mindful of depictions of my home state of Connecticut, which I always find is represented either too idyllically or as too rich and snobby. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematical] Reference
It is idyllically lovely, is it not -- under such a sun? ". From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
"The Cape was as bountifully pleasing and idyllically hospitable as anything the sailors could crave for their suffering bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Address on the occasion of Heritage Day] Reference
A recollection which had lost all painfulness, and shone idyllically in summer sunlight, but it mattered nothing to him that Bertha showed herself no more. From Wordnik.com. [Will Warburton] Reference
) (adj): idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity. From Wordnik.com. [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference
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