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Idyllic   /aɪdˈɪlɪk/   Listen
Idyllic

adjective
1.
Excellent and delightful in all respects.
2.
Suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene.






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"Idyllic" Quotes from Famous Books



... that Mary Ann should be unable to maintain herself—or be maintained—at this idyllic level. But her fall was aggravated by two circumstances, neither of which had any particular business to occur. The first was an intimation from the misogamist German Professor that he had persuaded another of his old pupils to include a prize symphony by Lancelot in ...
— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill

... read and admired through all of South America. It would be difficult to find an educated South American who is not familiar with this idyllic story.—Judge JOSE ALFONSO, Chilian ...
— The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers • Mary Cholmondeley

... landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to be sinful and wicked any more. I would come and live here, and never do any more wrong, and lead a blameless, beautiful life, and have silver ...
— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome

... he actually lived on a farm, Howard especially emphasized that composting must be sanitary and odorless and that flies must not be allowed to breed in the compost or around the work cattle. Country life can be quite idyllic—without flies. ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... again, it is a benediction that breathes into our minds somewhat of its own spirit of calm and content. The storm and stress of life is forgotten; all is holiday humor. We are in the midst of a Shakespearian comedy, with its alternations of humor and sentiment, its joyous atmosphere, its idyllic simplicity; the forest of Arden has come to us. It was written to celebrate his engagement to the Countess Therese. In it he is inspired by the very genius of happiness. It is as if, having obtained his heart's desire, he invites us to partake with him the joy ...
— Beethoven • George Alexander Fischer


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