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- noun Alternative capitalization of
Arcadia
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Labels: brownies comments: arcadia said ... been following this blog for a while, and am glad to see you're back! my experience with cheesecake-swirl brownies have been anything but laudable, but i think it might be time for another try ...
comfort in a brownie myriam 2009
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Many have argued that the radical figurative art of this period, marked by monumental forms, fluid line, ordered compositions and frequent evocations of a mythic, Mediterranean arcadia, can be aligned with the era's bourgeois conservatism, reactionary politics and, at its darkest, the rising specter of totalitarian regimes.
A Dialogue Across Centuries Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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Sorry for them, that is, in an et in arcadia ego way: the memento mori reminder that so many of the rest of us can say – "I, too, was young once" – and that these nymphs will so soon be fat and disappointed and 50.
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Juniper Hill, Flora Thompson's Lark Rise, was a place of bent backs and badly mended limbs rather than an arcadia for fresh-faced young rustics to sport in.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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But it's not just about an easy capitulation to an imaginary arcadia of slow time and good manners.
Villages of Britain: The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside by Clive Aslet – review Kathryn Hughes 2010
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Even the larger and more disturbing context, the myth of an antebellum arcadia, is reduced to a stage set for Scarlett's romantic machinations.
"These are not just regular costumes. These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind." Ann Althouse 2009
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I knew them by their exits, their short wings and short tail flying away quickly through the trees, rebuking me for having broken into their arcadia, for catching them at their bath in a woodland puddle like Diana, and once trying the tarmac of the road, stepping like firewalkers over hot coals.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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His sphinx is a statue, his hind of arcadia is your garden variety moose, as his Cerberus is a urinating hiding mafioso and his three Rhodesian ridgebacks.
Archive 2007-01-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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The southern platform is a thickly landscaped arcadia; but the northern is left empty to form a open stage, with stone terraces providing seating around its perimeter, much like the arenas of ancient Athens.
Robert Rodi: Mad Cow by Moonlight: Mucca Pazza Enchants Evanston 2009
rolig commented on the word arcadia
Et in Arcadia ego. – "Even in Arcadia am I."
– traditional Latin saying, a memento mori, used as the inscription on a tombstone in two paintings by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665).
September 3, 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word arcadia
Also see Arcadia.
July 9, 2011