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Recent Examples of pastorale
Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.
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William Robin, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
William Robin, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastorale
Noun
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The pastoral, yet bittersweet lament has turned into something of an emotionally restorative California wildfire reflection.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
Nashville Tennessean,
11 Sep. 2025
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His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.—
Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Mar. 2025
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The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The film marks his second time grappling with the postmodern author’s ideas on screen, following 2014’s Inherent Vice, a rueful elegy to California counterculture, which was itself the first, and to date only, official adaptation of Pynchon in cinema.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The idyll sometimes feels literally haunted.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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The park is a tiny idyll full of captivating panoramas, peaceful bird-watching, and stunning views.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Revered by all three Abrahamic religions, the psalms were often recited, read, and sung in routine worship.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Archbishop Bernard Hebda addressed some 2,000 people at the vigil, where psalms were sung and the silences burrowed deep in the wide room.—
Jesse Bedayn,
Twin Cities,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The day’s product announcements were odes to simplicity and ease of use.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Dua Lipa‘s Radical Optimism tour is an ultimate ode to dancing the night away.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.—
Jann E. Freed,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Finally Moncrieff chose Within a Budding Grove, from a poem by William Allingham.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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This poem is from Courtney Kampa’s new book, A Bright and Borrowed Light.—
Courtney Kampa,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Pastorale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastorale. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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