How To Use Romantic In A Sentence

She's the prettiest, most ethereal romantic heroine in the movies.
The eight romances for saxophone and piano are indeed romantic.
We may reasonably shake our heads at these romantic resolves. Times, Sunday Times
Its candlelit restaurant is one of the most romantic spots on the island, with a menu that goes beyond green curry. Times, Sunday Times
Even the plural in their name seems to make them extend farther into a distant romantic haze.

The full moon instilling some notion of romanticism in the minds of the stupid humans.
During this time, Lockhart met Moura Budberg, a Ukrainian-born baroness, who became the love of his life, and with whom, according to his son, he remained romantically involved until his death in 1970.
I haven’t got a problem with the narrater, he’s obviously romanticized or the opposite, in this case, but he’s an interesting person, so I’m not adverse to hearing his side of things. “The Worst Book I Have Read in the Past Three Years” : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
She began writing successful romantic fiction and historical novels.
They should also provide a string of romantic surprises throughout the day. The Sun
A young sea captain's future is transformed as he encounters mutiny, adventure and a beautiful fugitive in this romantic thriller set during an epic voyage to Shanghai.
As an author of a romantic comedy myself, I do understand that it is difficult to make the genre seem fresh after many miserable retreads.
As he rose in society, his romantic entanglements damaged his career and he returned to his former sweetheart in Ireland. Times, Sunday Times
There is much in the words and thoughts of the Romantic poets that is excessive or impractical, but their beliefs and the passion with which they pursued them still serve as an example.
He struck me as a sincere and romantic person that hadn't had the chance to find love and instead had enjoyed the attention the women had lavished on him.
The roof terrace looks down into the Grassmarket, while inside the subdued lighting and dark wooden furniture lends itself to romantic candlelit dinners.
Other people's fairy tales always is romantic, but my fairy tale but never be miserable.
The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.” No Uncertain Terms
She has a dreamy romantic nature.
The simplest explanation is that such people are "gluttons"; and the most romantic explanation is that there is some psychiatric reason making it necessary for them to overeat. The Human Brain
This post made me think about how rural communities are essentialized, or maybe even romanticized. In Case of Fire, Good Luck to You » Sociological Images
Practically all moralizing is absent from Romantic drama.
Traditional in form, her poetry treats primarily romantic themes with elevated, poetic language.
Your imagination for romantic gestures is second to none. The Sun
Lorekeep, the great city of necromantic magic, lies in ruins.
I was generally a starry-eyed romantic teen rather than a lusty one.
With white lights twinkling around the street-facing windows, a single red rose on our table and the candle lamp glowing between us, our fondue dinner felt almost romantic.
In contrast to liberty, equality is an almost intangible romantic dream, to be realized sometime in the future.
Dara, a counselor, is convinced that everyone is inescapably marked by childhood; she throws herself into romantic relationships with frightening intensity. The House on Fortune Street: Summary and book reviews of The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey.
My own mother said romantically that I was to expect you to feel like "catching a butterfly in my hand."
Their romantic interplay is glamorized to its maximum expression.
The image isn't falsely romanticized, and it includes foreign tourists alongside Indian pilgrims.
Despite the prevalent view that aesthetic perception of the Romantic period is also marked by this "diffusive" touch — as in Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
Again, this doesn't actually distinguish fantasy from any other (Romantic and excusatory) commercial genre, but that's not the point here. The Aesthetics of Fat
With a romantic flourish, he produces a presentation box, he gently eases it open and shows his amour some fantastically expensive ring.
The medieval castle is the most romantic ruin in Cornwall. On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
The class discusses getting a sponsor, abstaining from romantic relationships for at least a year after sobriety and the importance of attending 90 meetings in 90 days.
Walking into its corridors, between the towering whiteness, has the effect, so beloved of the Romantics, of making you feel microcosmic.
The only way you'll be laughing at this romantic drama is at how preposterous the plot is. The Sun
But there is something very romantic about the notion of the pirate that remains to this day: The skill of two swashbucklers battling on the deck of a ship, the hunt for buried treasure and the thrill of lawlessness.
Of course it’s romanticized from the point of view of a southerner, but that’s nowhere near any “propaganda for the slave system”. Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
To this end M. Saint-Saens wrote his fine septette for piano, trumpet, two violins, viola, violoncello, and double bass; and M. Vincent d'Indy his romantic suite in D for trumpet, two flutes, and string instruments.] Musicians of To-Day
A scholarly edition of the Obi pantomime is forthcoming from Romantic Circles, edited by Jeffrey N. Cox. About this Volume
And no one, apart from the most credulous romantic, believed him.
Hardwick acknowledges that moving from romantic comedy / relationship drama to the action genre is a departure for him.
The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas. Times, Sunday Times
The romantic backdrop of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient temples in the southeast town of Kyongju only highlighted the strain between the two.
Venice as a city has seemed irrelevant, a storied artifact of a Romantic past that serves merely as a decorous backdrop for an event geared toward utopian futures.
You will be greeted with a welcome drink, and once a week you can enjoy a romantic candle-lit dinner.
In medieval times, there was a romantic belief that birds chose their mate in February.
The couple were snapped this week after a romantic dinner in London. The Sun
She had an ideal of fatherhood, had gentle, silent, useless Lydia -- formed upon the genial, sunshiny type of parent popular in books, and she cast a romantic veil over disappointed, selfish, crossgrained Malcolm Martie, the Unconquered
Mr. Tritle's wish-list for future projects includes great Romantic canvases like César Franck's "Les Béatitudes" and Charles Gounod's epic oratorio "Mors et Vita," as well as 20th-century landmarks like the Britten "War Requiem" and Janáček's Glagolitic Mass. The Master of Many Choruses
But it takes a blending of the romantic and the practical that is unique to my mother to spontaneously arrive at such a conclusion.
Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts, and in particular promoted the neo-romantics.
The name Cyclopean, attached to those desolate remains of buildings which were older than Greek history itself, attests their romantic influence over the fancy of the people who thus attributed them to a superhuman strength and skill. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
Nothing will bring a romantic dreamer down to reality faster than the bug, and every biting insect seems to visit us in turn.
She was having a romantic liaison with her husband's best friend.
And it mythologizes it in such a way, such a romantic way - it basically says, ‘Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.’
Is your notion of identity a romantic one? Times, Sunday Times
His latest film is described as a 'romantic comedy'.
Public fascination with the romantic lives of our country's most powerful (mostly single) women is fairly predictable, train-wreck coverage that ranges from whispers of lesbianism to reports of so-called bitchy behavior to completely de-humanizing or hyper-sexualized commentary involving pantsuits. Maegan Carberry: Finding a Man's Love in a Man's World
A balance of storming multilinear playing suggestive of Keith Jarrett, romantic ballads and fluent improvisation, it's another acceleration in a fast-lane career that shifted from gifted student status to rising star almost overnight. This week's new live music
You didn't even wax lyrical about the incredibly romantic island we could see from the cliff-top at the cape.
The fancy can no more soar and disport in skyey regions, the beloved object ceases at once to be celestial, and remains plodding on earth, entirely unromantic and substantial. The Virginians
The Romantic conception of the self was an outgrowth of Kant's critique of associationism.
Back then, as now in his new Concord Music Group release "New Time, New 'Tet" (Amazon), I was drawn -- in his tenor saxophone improvisations and compositions -- to their flowing sense of ordered liberty, with the inner warmth of an adventurous romanticist. Benny Golson's Adventure
This kind of romanticism is everywhere in Buchan's books.
Lehmann also had an active interest in the visual arts, and in particular promoted the neo-romantics.
Though she was thoroughly aware of his insincerity, she much preferred him in the role of the romantic blockader. Gone with the Wind
Eugenia too, soothed with the delusions of her romantic but innocent fancy, flattered herself she might now see continually the object she conceived formed for meriting her ever reverential regard; and Miss Margland was importantly occupied upon affairs best suited to her taste and ancient habits, in deliberating how first to bring forth her fair charge with the most brilliant effect. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality.
But I'm struck by what seems to be a romantic view of the designer as the one who does the typography - as opposed to the one who has the idea.
But it certainly didn't feel like it at the time", referring to the unrequited loves, an ill-advised brief engagement and other romantic incidents that fill her diary when she was in her twenties. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
For the romantic and postromantic traditions of poetics in which Benjamin and Adorno participate, modern lyric ambition stands as a, or even the, high-risk enterprise, the "go-for-broke-game" [ "va-banque-Spiel"], of literary art: The lyric poem must work coherently in and with the mediumlanguagethat human beings use to articulate objective concepts, even while the lyric explores the most subjective, nonconceptual, and ephemeral phenomena. Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
His actorly slam-dunk is equalled, however, by half-lidded ingenue Scarlett Johansson, whose sheer unlikelihood as a romantic foil paradoxically renders her perfect.
Bursting with frantic energy, wry humour and a multitude of voices, it might be best described as a romantic comedy-thriller, but even this fails to capture its sparkling originality.
But as a middle-class kid who now lives in an uninsulated, leaking warehouse that would best be described as a decrepit if romantic squat, I know how quickly once gets used to these things.
It’s certainly more compelling than the romantic sublot between Claire and The Flying Puberty Case. Are “Mohinder & Matt” From Heroes The “Bert & Ernie” Of Primetime Television? | Best Week Ever
The current style in evening wear is soft, romantic and feminine.
Highly romantic courtships don't guarantee living happily ever after, but they are associated with a longer road to divorce.
She's romantically involved with the house comedian, Biff.
The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
She said this romantically as she did a little pirouette.
True love did not conquer all yesterday, to the disappointment of more than one old romantic. Times, Sunday Times
Marriage is a very real commitment and is devoid of the romantic notions and premonitions we have about it, and that we carry before engagement.
That his emotions never escape from their beginnings is shown by the way in which, after projecting into him a hallucination of romantic identity with Julia, the regime makes sure that his early feelings return: 'Do it to Julia! The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Wong Ping Yee tries to help two sisters who own the Four Seas restaurant (Cherrie Ying and Ai Kago) while training a young and romantically foolish wannabe chef named Ken'ichi Lung Kin Yat (Vanness Wu) to win the competition which will make him the Top Chef of China. George Heymont: A Chaotic Cornucopia of Culinary Cinema (VIDEOS)
Its impressive network of canals may lack the gondolas of its Italian sister, but the view at dusk is pretty and romantic while standing on any number of foot paths and bridges dotting the city. Magda Abu-Fadil: The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS)
He's a soft-hearted romantic behind his leather and greased-lightning exterior.
For lovers of forgotten Romantic symphonies, this is a treat, even if the interpretations could have been a bit more joyous and the orchestral playing more refulgent.
The inheritance spent, the painters indulge in reverie, romanticizing the past, retreating into what Jung would call the collective unconscious. Haiti: an act of Devil « Anglican Samizdat
His playing stamps him as a Romantic
It used to be only in America that cities were defined rather unromantically as ‘municipal corporations occupying a definite area’.
He will be shown gratuitous sex and graphic violence, hidden behind innuendo and called a romantic comedy.
The observer lay sprawled across his gun, his blond hair streaming romantically in the wind.
Run out on a romantic dinner? The Sun
After a romantic daydream (not of love but of adventure) and blinking, the doe-eyed girl hugged her books to her bosom and proceeded to him with a pale face.
One of the pinups named Gretchen, for example, clearly doesn't have the desired effect; her ‘Dutch cap seemed unromantic and precluded the element of mystery.’
Not romantic love, of course, but fraternal love.
Surely only the most jaded and damaged would challenge the orthodoxy of romantic love. Times, Sunday Times
It is most definitely a thriller, but with strong romantic undertones.
To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
With the exception of one scene involving a killing, the film offers neither gritty realism nor lush romanticism. Times, Sunday Times
The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
It's great that we swoon over the relationships we see in romantic comedies and cheesy sitcoms, but real life isn't like that.
Hunter is unflinching in her commitment to telling a persuasive story, but she is a romantic too.
Like the Poco Allegretto of the composer's third symphony, the wistful melody of this movement gives the score poignancy that stamps it as one of the great creations of the romantic era.
This noncompetitive activity encourages learning about the history of romantic music.
I don't see many arty-farty bodies supporting, say, writers of romantic fiction.
a necromantic sorcerer
The romantic urban fantasy story line is fast-paced from the onset and never slows down once Karatos begins his assault on his turf on the lead couple. Before I Wake-Kathryn Smith « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
The romantic picture of the plucky David girding himself against the brutish Goliath is dangerously misleading.
Stewart's books are classed as romantic mysteries.
You're a hopeless/incurable romantic.
A must is probably the most spectacular and romantic royal castle in the world - Neuschwanstein.
Here's a romantic view of a grouse shoot on Beamsley Beacon by Turner.
I would've been scared of being accused of being unromantic or cheap.
We perform classical, pre-classical, romanticism pieces, with domination of Bulgarian folk and church-Slavonic music.
Still, there was something going around in the mid to late 90's in the gaming industry that doesn't really seem as prevalent today: Outrageous, preposterous ambitions to cram a complete history of everything into every plot point, every gameplay system, every FMV sequence ... it was like the late Romantic period at the turn of the 1900's, where Gustav Mahler could say "To write a symphony is to construct the world" and mean it. Great Big Bites
The reality of mothering is frequently very different from the romantic ideal.
There were some suggested improvements, including building up the growing love between the plumber and the undine, mentioning earlier that undines are incurable romantics, and changing the plumber's ex (who shows up several times) into several separate exes to demonstrate the plumber's previous personal history. 6/18/08: Taos Toolbox, days 10-11: Some have broken under the strain of it
The play, after all, is the very antithesis of the romantic drama its enigmatic title might suggest.
The more likely explanation is that developmental changes occurred that involved greater solidifying of romantic relationships, making stable monogamy more possible.
Nostalgia is a collective, fictionalised and romanticised view of the past, no?
William Blake is an important representative in English romanticism.
This rather romantic background was kept virtually under wraps in my childhood. Times, Sunday Times
From Chinese literati painting to Japanese Yamato-e, from romanticism to Dadaism, different forms of art serve as the instrumentality to educate the public.
These are rightly seen as probingly sculptural, but one at least is open to a strangely anthropoid, romantic interpretation. Times, Sunday Times
suggestive and adumbrative manner" -- not, indeed, he acknowledges, a romantic manner, and yet "quite distinct from the classical"; i.e., because of the transcendental character of a portion of his poetry. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Here, you find everything from 12-tone to boogie-woogie, neoclassic to blues, and neo-romantic to completely abstract constructions.
His ideas on social justice were the foundation of new humanism and of Romanticism in general.
After that, he quickly eradicated any romantic intentions he had harbored for Captain Crowell, as she was now his commander and employer.
The Romantics believed that the life of the imagination was intrinsically valuable.
Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.
Taken verbally as well as ontologically, then, and directed back into romanticism, Agamben would thus help rethink Wordsworthian imminence as a kind of immanence in its own enunciative right. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Romantically, this month is anyone's guess.
It was truly one of the greatest adventures of the age, and historic, for here we get the word El Dorado, used for the first time in the history of discovery -- the legendary land of gold which was never found, but which attracted all the Elizabethan sailors to this romantic country. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
The play abounds in biblical and religious allusions, typical of Romantic works, and also prevalent in the comedia lacrimosa.
As soft as a blush when one is complimented, a pink hue with the warm sweetness of jasmine in a bottle that too is a blush colour yet is more romantic in tone, luminous in feel.
The British reviews were cold and formal... The great Romantic critics had not appeared, to take the starch out of their pompous manners.
The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas. Times, Sunday Times
Some people may find cooking and eating in dimness romantic, but we’d prefer that it be a choice and not a requirement. December « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
Do you work in a laid-back office where people wouldn't really care about what you do with your romantic life?
We're actually quite a hopeful, not to say romantic, lot schlepping off to plays week after week in hopes of being swept off our feet.
The film is delightfully humorous in the best traditions of romantic comedy.
Romantic fiction can no longer attract her.
Janus-faced nature of Romanticism's engagement with secularism and cosmopolitanism. About This Volume
Kennedy's trademark fascination with violence, both physical and psychological, animates these stories in alternately bold and subtle guises: the literal bloodshed in "What Becomes" and "Story of My Life" complements the romantic heartbreak in "Edinburgh" and "Sympathy. Review of What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy
The time when stalwart men the world over bravely sacrifice their appearance, their romantic relationships, andany chance of career advancement. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Month of the moustache
Sensible Stella faltered and the long-buried Romantic Stella shoved her out of the way like a shopaholic on sale day. JUST BETWEEN US
I have just shattered the widely-shared romantic vision of HBM seated, with her laptop, at a tidy secretaire in an oak-panelled library, clad in stylish loungewear and sipping tea from a china cup. How To Lose a Friend in 10 Months
Whether it's the experimental sounds of Menomena, the craggy romanticism of the Walkmen, or the rhythmic overload of LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip, all three shows promise dynamic concertgoing experiences. Mrs. Tansy Maude Peregrine: Denver's Essential Concert Calendar
The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.
The process that the Waynes chose, called betrothal, requires a man and woman to make a binding commitment to marry before beginning any romantic -- much less physical -- relationship. It Takes More Than Two
In the context of talking about a date during a junket in Lake Tahoe, Olivia told me that she really hadn't formed any romantic attachments at all in her lifetime.
With the exception of one scene involving a killing, the film offers neither gritty realism nor lush romanticism. Times, Sunday Times
She had little formal education but travelled widely in Europe where her somewhat dramatic taste led to an interest in Italian Mannerism, German Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the decadents.
‘An exotic, exclusive romantic flower which is the symbol of long life,’ is how the anthurium has been described by floriculturists.
One learns of romantic attachments and failed marriages, of career successes and business failures, of committed lives and struggles with alcoholism.
Difficult in this practical time to find a sincere husband like Wally & a lover wife like Fae, they are a romantic couple disappeared unfortunately from the youth generation, except few young people. John Brown – the author’s official site » Blog Archive » “Wally” by Aslyn
These letters of the romantic tone-poet to a friend and fellow - artist will probably take the reader by surprise, nay, may even disillusionise him. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
Forget any romantic notions of setting horse hair traps for rabbits in the pale dawn and then settling down to tickle trout from the mossy banks of the stream.
Aesthetic; because there is nothing in common between the science of spiritual expression and a _Semiotic_, whether it be medical, meteorological, political, physiognomic, or chiromantic. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
It is no wonder then that such an off-beat and romantic story was immediately taken up and embellished by the media.
The intricate work, based on Victorian romantic decoration, was all done freehand using house paint.
The poet Goethe is a supreme exponent of the Romantic response to nature.
Whether the theory truly tipped non-violent musers into killers, or whether it merely gave a pretext to psychopaths, simpletons and romantics to commit murders, is unclear.
Sing one of those romantic numbers.
Now passed a guard in the romantic cloak of a brigand in comic opera and a peaked cap like that of an _alguacil_. The Magician
[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée, A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.
Not only that, but Christian wasn't exactly a romantic, nor did he have any experience of wooing a woman.
These are not romantic, but sad stories in the annals of immigrant experiences.
Romantic emails had been exchanged with Jane: Write your name across the sky. On Deadline
The 1968 allusion is not superficial: the images these girls are summoning, just as much as the van-smashers did, are pictures of revolution ? the real thing, in its romantic and large-minded soixante-huitard form. Student protests: the riot girls
in the field of romantic fiction.
Like the French physiocrats, the enlighteners argued for a return to agriculture, based, however, more on their romanticization of the Bible than on solid economic theory.
Classic examples are romantic messages meant for your boyfriend that go to your mum and rants about your boss... to your boss. The Sun
They don't romanticize the instrument's folk origins or go in for New Age contrivances.
Most of all, though, have fun and good luck in pursuing your romantic endeavors.
He paints a very romantic image of working-class communities.
The choreography evokes the ladies' specialties, their lethally polite rivalry, and, most important, the filigreed yet dazzling nature of Romantic-era technique.
He was no fan of the writer, perhaps in part because he saw in him an image of his own romantic emotivism and self-conscious idiosyncratic bluffness.
Yet once they start dancing, the effect is pure gold: the thumpy rhythms of their feet on the wooden floor of a park pavilion, the couple's shared power and mutual athleticism, their whizzing quickstep that feels like the Earth's been knocked off its axis and the effortless, ecstatic, romantic joy of it all. Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead
No one would take it amiss if he found the Minoan Palace irresistibly romantic. THE QUEST FOR K
Oh god, I was turning into another romantic git.
Mum used to say he was a very romantic person, but he may not have been in the family long, because he wasn't much of a fatherly person.
Nicholson had been an actor before his unsaleably distinctive romantic-comedy face condemned him to obscurity. The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Literary romanticism and cultural nationalism informed the historical consciousness of regional raconteurs like Hall who looked for American themes within the history of the West.
The woman's face melted into a gooey, hopeless romantic expression and her eyes remained focused on me.
It is true, however, that relationships between cads and starry-eyed romantics are rarely what they seem.
The Discovery benefits from its romantic association with Captain Robert Falcon Scott and is fully rigged unlike its ugly sister.
The tale is innocently romantic without a tinge of irony.
The rambling grounds beyond, within which nestles the Normandy-inspired hamlet where Marie-Antoinette played at being a dairymaid, are a superlative example of the romantic, landscaped garden. Gardens of Delight
Bourdieu implies the same Romantic preference for the work ethic and antipathy towards abstraction as Veblen.
This piece must be romantically played or else the whole reason for being is lost.
They do not adopt an overtly political stance or contradict the precept that physical attractiveness equals romantic appeal.
You could do soppy romantic things like that and people would just roll their eyes at you and leave you be.

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