her year as a vineyard worker in the south of France was not the idyll that she had expected it to be
Recent Examples on the WebThe 1918 Armistice had brought no idyll, yet at least there had been a chance to heal the hurts of war. John Garth, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022 What’s been edited out of this idyll is the enormous toil floral industry professionals do, often with little economic rewards. Anne Quito, Quartz, 3 Aug. 2022 The roar of jets and exploding shells smashes this idyll as the children are forced to take refuge in a basement with their families and neighbors. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022 The Seattle businessman, Washington state Republican legislator and father of four was enjoying a summer day after a golf outing at his home on Bainbridge Island in 1965 when his peaceful idyll was interrupted by his restless children.Fox News, 19 Aug. 2022 Today is a blue-sky idyll, with light winds from the southwest urging the warm saltwater breakers onto the shore. Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022 Videos from the scene of the attack showed a summertime idyll destroyed. Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 20 July 2022 The pleasurable late-summer idyll of the first half, disrupted by occasional ripples of tension and jealousy, gives way to a curious mix of chaos and tedium. Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022 Gradually, however, in the 1980s, Duplin’s pastoral idyll becomes a mephitic dead zone, thanks to the nightmarish business scheme of an ambitious hog farmer named Wendell H. Murphy. Jeff Calder, ajc, 3 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Latin idyllium, from Greek eidyllion, from diminutive of eidos form; akin to Greek idein to see — more at wit