arcadian

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There had been more singing by Mrs. Detlor. She ransacked her memory for half remembered melodies--whimsical, arcadian, sad--and Hagar sat watching her, outwardly quiet and appreciative, inwardly under an influence like none he had ever felt before.

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  • It was a revelatory moment: All of a sudden I saw early Hockney as a realist, not as a kind of post-fauvist who stayed within the lines and used hyper-real, arcadian colors. —  Museum Blogs
  • What is the correct way to maintain a flourishing society? arcadian —  Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
  • These are among the most mysterious paintings in the history of art, with their inert and sexless figures so beguilingly integrated into an arcadian setting. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • The heroic horn calls and arcadian flutes heard in the —  CounterPunch
  • Rooftop solar panels and local foods are balms to our conscience, not keys to our collective salvation, and the arcadian ideal that conflates rural life with purity has got to go, suggests Owen: We have got to get ourselves not back to the garden, as Joni Mitchell urged the Woodstock generation, but into a high-rise. —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
 

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