BUCOLIC in a Sentence

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For BUCOLIC, below is one of 7 sentences:
We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUCOLIC
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bucolic
 a.  rustic; pastoral; agricultural; relating to country affairs, or to shepherd's life and occupation
Classic Sentence:
1  He had never been one of the modern ladylike young men: rather bucolic even, with his ruddy face and broad shoulders.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  In passing from the bucolic to the intellectual life the intermediate stages are usually two at least, frequently many more; and one of those stages is almost sure to be worldly advanced.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
3  We can hardly imagine bucolic placidity quickening to intellectual aims without imagining social aims as the transitional phase.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
4  To argue upon the possibility of culture before luxury to the bucolic world may be to argue truly, but it is an attempt to disturb a sequence to which humanity has been long accustomed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
5  Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you can see, beneath a marble colonnade.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6  I consent to the bucolic and also to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Example Sentence:
1  Filled with browsing cows and bleating sheep, the meadow was a charmingly bucolic sight.