Eventually, the newly-arrived second baseman realises there's something peculiar about this pastoral idyll.

It was only a matter of time before the Yanks muscled in on our pastoral idyll.

However, it's not all pastoral idyll.

This defect, grounded in the essence of the pastoral idyll, has not been remedied by the whole art of poets.

The stage was set out like a pastoral idyll, with large, leafy plants and a big, screened backdrop straight out of National Geographic.

For sure it sounds like a pastoral idyll, Kilcoo tucked into the foothills of the Mourne mountains and relatively forgotten during the violent decades.

The calamities and theoretical pastoral idyll that followed when the string band moved to the country in 1969 would all unfold beneath my steady hand.

Chardin's tranquil scenes of home life could not be more different from Boucher's voluptuous nudes and cherubs, from Fragonard's flirtatious ladies and Watteau's pastoral idylls.