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Noun
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The English pastoral meets its match, not in the city but in the imagination that decides not to pursue the trees for the forest of the moment.—
Kevin Young,
The New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2024 -
Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
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He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.—
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
15 Mar. 2024
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Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.—
Thomas Adamson and John Leicester,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2024
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Last year, the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards winners Christopher Nolan’s biographical epic Oppenheimer with seven wins in total.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Jan. 2025
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In the Greek epics, Odysseus and Ajax – are middle-aged, and neither loses sleep wondering about his life choices or whether his skills are falling off.—
Matthew Redmond,
The Conversation,
9 Jan. 2025
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Somehow the zombies have reached this isolated rural idyll and things go south fast.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Dec. 2024
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Television—as noise, as news, as something to do instead of killing yourself—stalks the text of this lyric, undermining the poetic form’s association with idyll.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Dec. 2024
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On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.—
Eric Cortellessa,
TIME,
26 Sep. 2024
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No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.—
E. L. Doctorow,
The New Yorker,
1 July 2024
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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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All kinds of essays, narratives, stories, encyclopedias, poems, and the like are scrutinized in a mathematical and computational fashion to ferret out the nature of human writing.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Harbaugh went on for two straight minutes, reciting the poem from memory.—
Daniel Popper,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Tell, yell, hell, hello, elegy, tottle, otology, geology, theology.—
John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Worm’s visualization of his collection, then, is an unwitting elegy of species pushed to the brink of existence by human pressures.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Jan. 2025
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