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Recent Examples of goatherdThe French- and Corsican-language drama centers on Joseph, one of the last goatherds on the Corsican coastline, who receives a visit from the Mafia.—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024 Marcello, perhaps the wealthiest of all goatherds and on his way to becoming Emily's new boyfriend, lives near Rome.—Ursula Schmied, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024 The indie fantasy comedy about a cursed goatherd (Steinbruner) who turns to a witch (Stronach) for help, is very much in the tradition of films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride and, of course, The NeverEnding Story.—John Russell, Peoplemag, 26 July 2024 This creature, native to Syria and other parts of the Middle East, comes with a face only a goatherd could love.—Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024 Devastated by her husband’s death, young widow Trudy escapes to its Blue Mountains and falls for a taciturn goatherd imbued by the highlands’ mysticism.—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 1 Aug. 2023 Chapters are organized around journeys, in which Finlay, an Englishwoman, goes as far afield as Leh, in Kashmir, to speak with a pashmina goatherd, and Papua New Guinea, to watch Maisin women paint tapa, a cloth made from bark.—The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022 The goatherd has lived a humble existence away from his wife and three now-adult and college-educated daughters for 21 years.—Clara Germani, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2020 Next to the highway, always the signs of old Mexico, goatherds shuffled in the tall grass beyond the guardrails, the goats kicking up dust.—Paul Theroux, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2019
In Mathura, a northern city where Krishna is said to have been born, people recreate a Hindu myth in which Krishna visits Radha to romance her, and her cowherd friends, taking offense at his advances, drive him out with sticks.
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Hari Kumar,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2024
The girl and the cowherd are separated by a celestial river, but are able to be together one day a year when a flock of magpies forms a bridge over it.
Watch on Deadline Dusty is a quiet guy and O’Connor, probably not a casting director’s idea of a cowboy, really manages to show us who this young man is, often with just his forlorn facial expressions rather than the limited dialogue he is given in many scenes.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2025
The Will Rodgers Foundation announced last week that the Palisades Fire claimed both historic homes of the famed cowboy actor and member of the Cherokee Nation.
There’s also an impressive 1836 drawing of a young shepherdess by Jules Dupre, acquired by the museum in 2009 as part of a bequest from collector Muriel Butkin.
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Steven Litt,
cleveland,
29 Jan. 2023
And Angela Chatelain Avila entertainingly plays most of the play’s female roles, including the neighbor’s gentle-natured wife Beryl, a boy servant, a maid and a shepherdess.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2022
Bella Hadid has returned from playing the starring role in Rodeo and Juliet–a sort of real-life rom-com where an international supermodel falls in love with a simple Texan cowman and realizes there is a life beyond New York, London, Paris and Milan–and is (more importantly) back in capri pants.
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Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
2 May 2024
McGuinn’s handshake indicated that, indeed, the farmer and the cowman, or the country traditionalist and the Byrd-man, could be friends.
Unlike the Islamic extremists that staged the Chibok kidnappings, the deadly criminal gangs terrorizing villages in northwestern Nigeria are mostly former herdsmen who were in conflict with farming host communities, according to authorities.
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Chinedu Asadu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2024
In 1997, Thimphu told Beijing that Tibetan herdsmen had been intruding into the Jakarlung valley and even constructed sheds there, according to Bhutan’s National Assembly records cited by Barnett.
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