Willy drifts between his living room, downstage, to the apron and flashbacks of an idyllic past, and also to fantasized conversations with Ben.

Others view them as reactionaries trying to recapture an idyllic and utopian past.

Yet despite that immediacy, it plays out on a grander scale, opening with memories (however accurate) of an idyllic past and ending with visions of a heroic future.

Nor do the dislocations seem as tragic to the local as they do to the visitor in search of an idyllic past.

The scores, composed by Carl Davis, complemented Lat's visuals, capturing the spirit of kampung childhood in a "simple, idyllic past".

I love the English countryside, though I think we all sometimes deceive ourselves about its idyllic past.

Crippling Superstructure This unhappiness about modern politics is more than mere nostalgia for some idyllic past that never was.

The highway and missions became for many a romantic symbol of an idyllic and peaceful past.

Racial intolerance in the country is getting worse, we tell ourselves, looking back to a more idyllic past.

The novel's portrayal of technology is closely tied to a nostalgic lament for the perceived loss of a natural, idyllic past, contrasted to a mechanistic, technologically-determined present.