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idyll
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Definition:
an idealized, happy, peaceful scene
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The next day the protective bubble about their
idyll
finally burst and the troubles of the real world came rushing in.
Junot Díaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
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"But I can finish your
idyll
for you. You gave her good advice and broke her heart. That was the beginning of your reformation."
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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That’s all very well as an
idyllic
episode, but for your whole life that won’t answer.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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creating the
idyllic
little story “Family Happiness” (1859), or when a few years later while working on War and Peace,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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