halcyon
marked by peace, prosperity, and happiness; idyllically calm
Halcyon in a sentence
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They looked back fondly on the halcyon days of their early friendship.
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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
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