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Meanings of romantics in English

Russian
романтизм
Portuguese
romanticismo
Spanish
romanticismo
Catalan
romàntic
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Period of artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that started in 18th century Europe.

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Usage of romantics in English
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It provided one gasp-inducing exchange after another, tennis to rouse the romantics.
The Guardian
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Stendhal, himself a romantic, as these men are romantics, could do it.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
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My parents were romantics: dad says they considered both 'Golden' and 'Silver'!
Masters of Space
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But I am not narrowly on the side of the romantics.
Alarms and Discursions
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I'm strictly prog rock and the nineteenth-century romantics, said Dr Walid.
Moon Over Soho
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These are the odes with which we associate the great romantics.
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
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But the romantics are wrong in their harsh judgment of modernity.
The Guardian
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The first generation of English romantics was drawing to its close.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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The romantics will have a fine account to render with their immoral sentimentality.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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For footballing romantics, it was tempting to conclude Ajax were back.
The Guardian
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Both arguments can reasonably be made, the romantics versus the pragmatists.
News.com.au
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Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.
Wired
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It is not the realists who are betraying the voters, but the romantics.
The Guardian
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Thus distorted, robots looked like romantics and cold bois looked like life partners.
Ebony
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The couple were by then middle-aged romantics of an inventive unconventionality.
The Guardian
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No one can accuse two Christchurch entrepenuers of being hopeless romantics.
Radio NZ
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