1
as in rural
of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people
painted a pastoral scene of a flower-filled meadow
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2
as in ministerial
of, relating to, or characteristic of the clergy
pastoral advice to a young couple preparing to marry
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as in pastorale
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Recent Examples of pastoral
Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024
These eight designers from the AD PRO Directory, however, knew exactly how to let views, urban and pastoral alike, stand out in these thoughtful, stylish interiors.
—Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 16 Sep. 2024
J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
Segarra’s voice has soft edges but a hard center, befitting songs in which outrage and pain simmer beneath the pastoral.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2024
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The charming towns, pastoral scenery, and historic museums of the Berkshires are a stone’s throw from the big cities of the Northeast.
—Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024
These eight designers from the AD PRO Directory, however, knew exactly how to let views, urban and pastoral alike, stand out in these thoughtful, stylish interiors.
—Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 16 Sep. 2024
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This blend of the pastoral and the religious made the Senegal River feel like an archaic vision of paradise, a strip of vivid life in an otherwise unforgiving environment.
—J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
Segarra’s voice has soft edges but a hard center, befitting songs in which outrage and pain simmer beneath the pastoral.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2024
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Peanut became a political talking point during the presidential election when some commentators said seizing it from Longo's house in rural Pine City was an example of government overreach.Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Their designers had initially paid little attention to transit, sidewalks, or tree cover — features that are often afterthoughts for rural roads, but crucial in more densely populated areas.David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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Since the 2020 election, local officials in at least eight states have attempted to use their largely ministerial duty in election certification to delay or deny certification, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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The news also comes as South Korea’s foreign and defense ministers head to Washington to speak with their counterparts, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, for an annual ministerial meeting.Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
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Iconic visitors who helped to establish the glamorous allure of this little hilltop idyll include Greta Garbo, Orson Wells and Marlene Dietrich.Alexandra Zagalsky, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, the idyll that made Asheville a regional tourist hub of artsy flair, bustling breweries and forested mountain majesty – nearly 300 miles from the Atlantic coast – today appears condemned after one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the US mainland in the last 50 years.Dakin Andone and Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
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Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
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According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
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At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.Judy Berman, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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However, an eco-friendly fireworks show replaced traditional fireworks in Ayodhya, complementing the celebration with a laser show depicting scenes from the Ramayana, an ancient Hindu epic.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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In his new book of poems, Quesada seamlessly blends intimate confessions with odes to surreal paintings.James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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Fittingly, his outfit was an ode to a jab from one of his wife's costars.Julia Moore, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Pastoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastoral. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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