Example sentences for: pastoral

How can you use “pastoral” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They are written in the light, teary, lovely style of 19 th -century French song--the style that you can see in a little pastoral love poem of Hugo's, with the singer and pianist joined by Philippa Davies on flute, by clicking . The songs convey some of the orderliness and purity of Hugo's poetic imagination, his unflappable fluency, his verse structures varying with perfect control, as if every possible variation on rhythmic and melodic order lay easily within his grasp--as in, for instance, the opening bars that you can hear by clicking .

  • Some critics celebrate Burne-Jones' use of eclectic media (paint, tapestry, stained glass) and varied imagery (Arthurian, classical, pastoral).

  • I love her mocking the French ("I really dislike the pallid, watery-eyed, churchly old-whore sentimentality of their limpid pastoral novels").

  • The book draws upon that experience, although it does not invade private pastoral conversations.

  • Country Life Farm is as pastoral as it sounds, smelling of grass and hay and horses.


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