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Meanings of romantics in English
Period of artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that started in 18th century Europe.
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Examples for "romantic"
Examples for "romantic"
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Kolbert: Journalists are not known for their romantic view of American politics.
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Byron indulged in vice in a romantic way; Hook in the coarsest.
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He'd stayed free of romantic entanglements since leaving Paris five years ago.
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War today, Kane, isn't won by romantic animals dashing at forlorn hopes.
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I'm not romantic by nature, and you've made your position perfectly clear.
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Fifteen years after the starting of romanticism the movement had materially subsided.
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Realism has taught romanticism to tell the truth, if it would succeed.
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Brutal realism is offset by romanticism, idealism, even a flawed human grandeur.
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Spasiuk's music has a grace and a romanticism that make it irresistible.
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Gogol's romanticism, shut in within himself, finding no outlet, became a flame.
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The old-style lamp posts pay homage to a classic, more romantic era.
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The third was truly the romantic era of the Crusades.
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Graceful and elegant, like something from a distant, romantic era.
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Archer's garage on Fenian Street, built in the late 1940s during the romantic era of motoring in Ireland, was demolished over the bank holiday weekend.
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Beethoven revolutionized orchestral music, leading it out of the Classical and into the Romantic era.
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With the romantic period of Spanish history Irving was in ardent sympathy.
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It reminded me of Goethe, of the romantic period:
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Within the romantic period the same phenomenon is evident.
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Wherein the Captain's little girl reaches the romantic period of her career, and faces the world.
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The story was of brigands and true lovers, the thing that was popular in the romantic period.
Usage of romantics in English
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It provided one gasp-inducing exchange after another, tennis to rouse the romantics.
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Stendhal, himself a romantic, as these men are romantics, could do it.
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My parents were romantics: dad says they considered both 'Golden' and 'Silver'!
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But I am not narrowly on the side of the romantics.
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I'm strictly prog rock and the nineteenth-century romantics, said Dr Walid.
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These are the odes with which we associate the great romantics.
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But the romantics are wrong in their harsh judgment of modernity.
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The first generation of English romantics was drawing to its close.
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The romantics will have a fine account to render with their immoral sentimentality.
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For footballing romantics, it was tempting to conclude Ajax were back.
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Both arguments can reasonably be made, the romantics versus the pragmatists.
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Books are the province of romantics and humanists, not heartless nerds.
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It is not the realists who are betraying the voters, but the romantics.
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Thus distorted, robots looked like romantics and cold bois looked like life partners.
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The couple were by then middle-aged romantics of an inventive unconventionality.
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No one can accuse two Christchurch entrepenuers of being hopeless romantics.
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