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How to use idylls in a sentence

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He started painting rural idylls featuring churches and meadows which he intended to sell to the urban bourgeoisie.
New Yorker Colin Brant's two naive-style oil paintings evoke otherworldly idylls with manicured grass, trees and happy, relaxed people.
But like most rural idylls everything is not as it seems, the club suffers from more than its fair share of vandalism.
Arcadian idylls are also a prolific feature of writing in the 18th and 19th centuries.
It might be associations, such as memories of holidays, pastoral idylls, the peacefulness, the slower pace, or a whole imagined way of life.
Slant group had little sympathy from brethren who had been nourished by the rural and mediaeval idylls of a Bede Jarrett or Vincent McNabb.
Although at times rather folksy, these paintings are often of a decent artistic quality or tell a tale of idylls that have long since vanished.
These two sides of the same coin are unsettling, the fabricated visual idylls on the front and the casual texts on the reverse, which are nothing less than greetings from a vanished past.
Bright people gather in university cities such as Boston and San Francisco, or in technology hubs such as Austin, Texas, or Redmond, Washington, or in rural idylls such as Camden, Maine, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
These intrepid pioneers are busily turning ever more neighbourhoods into hipster idylls of farm-to-table restaurants, faux dive bars and spectacle boutiques.
From the late 1990s British baby-boomers made rich by strong sterling and surging house prices rushed to wine-quaffing idylls on the Spanish Costas and in the French countryside.
Another emphasis is the portrayal of natural idylls in the state of Maine in the northeast United States, which simultaneously appear directly and inaccessible.
Recorder of lost idylls and of resurgent pain, Serge Vollin continues to nurture a fierce nostalgia and loyalty towards his native culture and place of origin.
In the Idylls, Arthur became a symbol of ideal manhood who ultimately failed, through human weakness, to establish a perfect kingdom on earth.
Geraint and Enid in Volume I was the basis for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's two poems about Geraint in the Idylls of the King.
It is elaborated upon in modern English poetry, such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Charles Williams's Taliessin Through Logres.
His name was used, spelled as Taliessin, in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
But it is in his Idylls of the King, and especially in 'The Coming of Arthur', that Tennyson links May Day with the matter of Britain.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King describes Lyonesse as the site of the final battle between Arthur and Mordred.
Cameron's friendship with Tennyson led to him asking her to photograph illustrations for his Idylls of the King.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Every naturalist concealed within him a lover of idylls or Eclogues.
These range from landscape painting in verse and sonnets on artists through Tennysonian idylls and epistolary travel diaries to Biblical typologies and medieval narratives.
Idyll means a short poem about some simple and beautiful subject.The Arthur of the Idylls is not the Arthur of The Mabinogion nor of Malory.
His long poems besides In Memoriam are The Princess, Maud, and the Idylls of the King.
Representative texts in this formal tradition would certainly include the two foundational works in Greek and Latin, Theocritus's Idylls and Virgil's Eclogues.
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