Not in the narrow, quotidian sense in which "art" is more or less synonymous with skill, but in the grand, fully exalted, Romantic meaning of the word.
He was 23 and already a "fully fledged romantic" who believed the best way to photograph a subject was from the inside out.
The devoted yet disgruntled fan base of "The X-Files" has always been divided into two hostile sects: the shippers, short for relationshippers, who quixotically longed for a fully realized romantic relationship between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, and the noromos, as in no romance, who insisted that the partnership remain platonic for the sake of the series.
Four years ago, Snow White and the Huntsman was a unimaginative reimagining of the Snow White legend which comprehensively misunderstood its delicacy, charm and mythic power, wasting the talents of Charlize Theron as the wicked queen, and promoting the huntsman (the guy who passes off an animal heart as Snow White's heart) to a fully hunky romantic lead, played by Chris Hemsworth.
It's a few inches shy of launching a fully-fledged romantic death cult.
Many women expect to be fully subsidized on romantic jaunts, too.
But Mr. Assayas, without fully embracing the romantic and dangerous naïveté of his characters, nonetheless spares them the condescension of hindsight.
Enescu's interpretation of Gypsy music came fully from the Romantic tradition, closing with a rhetorical flourish that literally threw Mr. Gellev off balance.
Just when it appeared the character was going to develop his own fully fleshed-out romantic subplot, he was abducted by Gareth and the remnants of the Terminus cannibals, his leg amputated for food.
