Sentence examples for Romanticism from inspiring English sources

Little wonder that fairness as a moral ideal can be dismissed as hazy romanticism and the ethical imperative of the green-eyed monster.

A third dominant characteristic, probably linked with his provincialism and his romanticism, made itself felt.

Not the subtle interplay of periodic symmetries typical of the classical era, nor the curvaceous, subjective flexibility in the flow of time that romanticism relished.

He hated romanticism (which he called clair de lune); instead, he wanted divorce to be made easy, and free love to become the norm.

Some put this down to cultural romanticism, but more probably the worries stem from living in a country with a dense population and few natural resources, and a culture that values earnest efforts to do good.

His language lacked the dashing political romanticism of a Thomas Jefferson, but he did mean what he said.

Far from the levers of power, his romanticism seemed appealing, not threatening, to Britons bored of centrist politicians who all sounded the same.

The adaptation also works in a redemptive romanticism, which sets it in the sub-tradition of British films that depict working-class grime but contrive happy endings.

OVER the past year or two the name Barbara Cartland has been mentioned by writers in The Economist at least six times, usually as a synonym for romanticism of one sort or another.

Over-simplification is inevitable: Mr Rediker mostly overlooks the possibility that his sources are tainted by romanticism, for example.

It signified a radical style of composition which aimed at redressing the swooning clichés of late romanticism, first with atonality, then with the rigorous new language of the 12-tone system, founded not on traditional harmony but abstract arrangements of pitches.