In 'Malcolm's Katie' Crawford adapted to the setting of pioneer Canada the domestic idyll as she learned it from Tennyson.

"The letters have been conceived to infer the possibility of a supposed domestic idyll," Mr. Greenaway writes in the program.

There is no social or political reference in his work, yet this opera argues persuasively that he painted his "domestic idylls" as a response to agitated times.

The domestic idyll at Osborne was not to continue.

Entertainment Television, seems increasingly committed to exposing domestic idylls' fraying seams - emotional, psychological and even spatial.

These are not times for a domestic idyll or emotional bliss, and Zhivago sees man's simplest aspirations to a normal human life hopelessly frustrated.

He offered mediaeval romance, and classical perfection touched with the romantic spirit, and domestic idyll, of which The May Queen is probably the most popular example.

This pleasant domestic idyll, with its delightful promiscuities, was brought to an end by the reappearance of Robert Vaughan, nightmare angel of the expressways.

The domestic idyll shattered when a female bounded over to an unsuspecting male, pummeled him on the head until he curled up into a ball and shoved him away from the fruit.

He was a purveyor of the domestic idylls of the Gilded Age.