“Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.”

“Patchett takes her time getting there, but by the climax of her story, you find yourself hoping that the idyll will - somehow, magically - last.”

“Our annual family vacation to the beach was a blissful idyll filled with laughter, relaxation, and endless games in the sun.”

“Rustic or town life, legends of the gods, and passages of personal experience supply the idyllist with subjects.”

“From an idyllist and elegist we find him suddenly transformed into an unsparing master of poetical satire.”

“But he was no idyllist, though he could be tender as Mme. Cottin herself.”

“The solution of this problem is properly what ought to be given us by the theory of the idyl.”

“I thought no more of the idyl of the art-gallery until the adjournment for the night.”

“After the stormy days we had just gone through, this morning passed like an idyl.”

“Add in a little melancholy heritage, and The Idyllists will have even the most morose of hipsters grooving in no time.”

“Arcadian idylls are also a prolific feature of writing in the 18th and 19th centuries.”

“But like most rural idylls everything is not as it seems, the club suffers from more than its fair share of vandalism.”

“He started painting rural idylls featuring churches and meadows which he intended to sell to the urban bourgeoisie.”