Sentence examples for rather less romantic from inspiring English sources
The truth is rather less romantic.
Alas, it seems the preliminaries were rather less romantic.
Only we're in Sussex, a few miles west of Guildford, to be precise, which sounds rather less romantic than rural France.
The medieval church that owns it, the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, has started to charge tourists €2 (£1.72) for access to the statue and one photograph, a policy that would have made Audrey Hepburn's famous stop at the site with Gregory Peck rather less romantic in Roman Holiday.
Apply Royal Mail sensibilities to the Housman poem and the title might change from A Shropshire Lad to the rather less romantic An SY8 Lad - SY8 being the postcode for Ludlow, home to Housman's grave.
Yet to read any of these writers at all closely is to confront something less romantic in the national — or rather, the human — character.
There will be rather less surprise, one suspects, at news that the shortlist for the Romantic Novel of the Year award is also devoid of Y chromosomes.
But from a less romantic standpoint, Mr. Schiff continued, Ives "chose to become a millionaire rather than an artist".
Less romantic, maybe, but probably longer-lasting.
The reality was less romantic.
