Sentence examples for romantic attitudes from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hall does not mention any intended ironic parallel with the romantic attitudes young Oxfordians were carrying to the trenches that unromantically butchered them.

The last gasp of 19th-century Romanticism, it marked the dissipation of Romantic attitudes from a cultural elite to every adolescent's natural rite of passage.

But I was so thoroughly the victim of current romantic attitudes that, in spite of that recognition, I was unable to withstand a sickening feeling that a woman worth her salt would have been too powerfully attractive to allow this disaster to happen.

Romantic attitudes to science varied, from distrust of the scientific enterprise to endorsing a non-mechanical science that rejected the mathematicised and the abstract theorising associated with Newton.

Ryan argues that our modern romantic attitudes are needlessly puritanical, "an outdated Victorian sense of human sexuality that conflates desire with property rights".

It was indebted to Humboldtian science in its insistence on measurements of nature, and, according to Noah Heringman, retains a much of the "rhetoric of the sublime", which is characteristic of Romantic attitudes to landscape.

At the age of 25, he published Original Poems and Translations (1760), which already showed a Romantic attitude toward nature.

Chanel has given Chance a light, fresh, floral scent, which is meant to convey a youthful, sexy and romantic attitude, Ms. Palma said.

A further sign of the diminished stress placed on judgment is the Romantic attitude to form: if poetry must be spontaneous, sincere, intense, it should be fashioned primarily according to the dictates of the creative imagination.

In "Girl on the Bridge," a soap bubble of romantic attitude and secondhand glamour, Patrice Leconte succeeds by discovering something sexier than sex, at once a perfect metaphor and a convincing substitute for it.

To see her as a victim of other people's cruelties is also to take an old-fashioned and romantic attitude toward the mental illness from which she suffered, even if the treatments for it in her day strike us as uncivilized and ignorant (as ours will in the future).