as in rural
of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people
a bucolic region where farms are still common
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The Manson murders marked the midpoint of that, this dark wave that no one was suspecting in this bucolic place.
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Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
Playing out a narrative of increasingly high-key melodrama in a low-key register, the film steadily picks apart the bucolic idyll of Michelle’s golden years, sliding in the process from ambling character study to cool-blooded thriller in the spirit of Simenon.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
An estate of some 3,400 square meters (36,600 square feet) spreads from the property’s private dock along a 200-meter protective seawall frontage and up into a dark green bucolic glade of trees.
—Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Today’s great photo is from staff photographer Brian van der Brug, who recently helped cover a battle over who can access beaches along the bucolic Russian River.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
Playing out a narrative of increasingly high-key melodrama in a low-key register, the film steadily picks apart the bucolic idyll of Michelle’s golden years, sliding in the process from ambling character study to cool-blooded thriller in the spirit of Simenon.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
An estate of some 3,400 square meters (36,600 square feet) spreads from the property’s private dock along a 200-meter protective seawall frontage and up into a dark green bucolic glade of trees.
—Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Today’s great photo is from staff photographer Brian van der Brug, who recently helped cover a battle over who can access beaches along the bucolic Russian River.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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