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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
Noun
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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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That victory kicked off Nunes’ epic run as the queen of the women’s bantamweight division.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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These natural history epics were once the preserve of the BBC, which commissioned the likes of Blue Planet and Planet Earth, but the streamers and American nets have gotten into the game in a big way.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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The lo-fi minimalism of her previous records has ceded to a gaseous soft-pop idyll in which strummed chords fan out like galaxies and endless reverb signals the unfathomable reach of the infinite.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
3 Dec. 2024
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In his rural idyll, McKinniss might be moving into a more contemplative mood than that of his 20s and 30s.—
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
3 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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Based on the ancient Greek epic poem from Homer, The Odyssey follows Odysseus, a man on a mission to return home to his family after fighting in the Trojan War.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
19 Feb. 2025
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An epic poem from Homer, the original literary classic explored themes of heroism, loyalty, cunning and the struggle against divine will, featuring stories like Odysseus’ encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens and the witch-goddess Circe, culminating in a reunion with his wife Penelope.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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Lachlan Murdoch delivered a brief elegy this morning for shuttered sports streaming joint venture Venu but said Fox is moving ahead with plans to launch a new direct-to-consumer service drawing on all its content and brands by the end of the calendar year.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
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But the meeting will be more elegy than transformation.—
Jude Blanchette,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Oct. 2022
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“Anacreontic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anacreontic. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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