idyll
ahy duhl
- n an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
- n a musical composition that evokes rural life
- n a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
- In short, there was nothing to suggest the violence that ended the suburban idyll.
- To portray Sark as a rural idyll untouched by modernity would be inaccurate, however.
- Murnau, one of the greatest silent-film directors, went to Tahiti (with documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty) to make this ethnographic idyll spiked with Hollywood-style melodrama.