bucolic

Yet even in such a bucolic setting, the demonstrations and ultimate victory of the protesters proved riveting.

a country life of arcadian contentment; a pleasant bucolic scene; charming in its pastoral setting; rustic tranquility.

A few gentleman farmers with plenty of money can still escape to the bucolic life.

The meeting between the European and American leaders is taking place at Camp David, a bucolic retreat outside Washington.

He managed to transform the bucolic of butterflies into a dangerous sport.

Farming may seem bucolic, but it is an inherently volatile industry, subject to the vicissitudes of weather, disease, and disaster.

Thorntown's bucolic bliss was thanks to a corporate sponsor, Campbell Soup. But such efforts are not enough.

rural, bucolic, rustic, pastoral These adjectives all mean of or typical of the country as distinguished from the city.

Long a bucolic place of fertile farms, the Peace valley has become the centre of the hottest natural-gas boom in North America.

JUST east of downtown Irvine, in southern California, a bucolic landscape is under construction.

A similar number of Britons live in France, but mainly for a sunny dotage in the bucolic south.

More British wildlife is likely to be nursed in some bucolic sanatorium in the hope of populating the future.

But the beginnings of the future scourge of mankind were bucolic, even idyllic.

There are other signs in my bucolic town that the economy is cooling.

Bucolic is often used pejoratively or facetiously of country people or their manners: