Preposition: of

• area: The idyll of the area is subverted by the omnipresence of the British military machine.

Converse of object

• create: The Independent May 13th 2004 Is it really possible for a city dweller to create a rustic idyll in their back garden?

• seek: County Homesearch, for example, reports that 60 per cent of its clients were seeking the pastoral idyll.

• enjoy: It is principally a manual for those that enjoy this rural idyll and have the luck to live in the country.

• remember: I suppose it's hard to remember a little romantic idyll when you've just come on top of a tragedy.

• shatter: Sadly small matters such as finding the folding stuff for food, children and a mortgage soon shatter the idyll.

• spoil: Looking at this mid-century year, what was there then to spoil the Portuguese idyll?

Preposition: in

• center: Uninvited Guests creates a rural idyll in the center of the city.

Adjective modifier

• pastoral: The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early American pastoral idyll.

• rural: Nicolson writes about the challenge of moving from the hectic London life to the quiet rural idyll which is the title of the book.

• rustic: The Independent May 13th 2004 Is it really possible for a city dweller to create a rustic idyll in their back garden?

• romantic: Just before you think you are about to vomit war breaks out to shatter this romantic idyll.

• tropical: Of all the worldâs tropical idylls, nowhere conjures up images quite so romantic as the South Pacific.

• perfect: So in early spring a dozen eager falconers set about creating the perfect sporting idyll.

Noun used with modifier

• country: With all his modest intention he is a past master of the little country idyll.

• summer: There are some small hotels, trattorias and cafes but little to mar a summers day idyll.

• village: Well, that is the whole of this simple village idyll, I think.