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Example sentences for: pastoral
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Some critics celebrate Burne-Jones' use of eclectic media (paint, tapestry, stained glass) and varied imagery (Arthurian, classical, pastoral).
It is about "the same irony and the same agony" as Portnoy's Complaint --the excesses of the 1960s--but American Pastoral is "darker, difficult, more mature."
The book's subtitle is, "A Pastor to the President Speaks Out," but I hasten to say that it does not betray pastoral confidences.
But a much larger grouping of coinages bears witnesses to the embryonic pastoral industry: cattle walk, cattle hunting, cattle run, cattle station; stock agent, stock driver, stock establishment, stock horse, stock house, stock hut, stock proprietor, stock property, stock run, stock station; sheep country, sheep downs, sheep establishment, sheep hills, sheep holder, sheep land, sheep master, sheep overseer, sheep owner, sheep proprietor, sheep watchman, sheep yard.
Book -- American Pastoral , by Philip Roth;