Sentence examples for romantic strain from inspiring English sources

Attributing human motivation and characteristics to an inanimate object suggests a Romantic strain to the artist's temperament.

In Germany a Romantic strain coexisted with a Realist style that remained unaffected by the most advanced French painting.

And if you like a Romantic strain even in your contemporary music, then a program with Music From Copland House on Thursday called "The New Romantics" is for you.

Of course, the quintet continued to play blues, like Ron Carter's R & B-flavored "Eighty One" and Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" in 6/4 time, and they retained a romantic strain in tunes like Shorter's "Fall" or the haunting "Circles".

Lean was a confined Englander for many years: he made small, thoroughly tidy pictures from English classics or from stories that addressed the tragicomic loneliness of the English romantic strain.

Andrew Hill, who is going through a fairly major career overhaul at the moment, came to light in the mid-60's via some bracing records on Blue Note that have become major items in the progressive-jazz canon; he is harmonically oblique and some of his original material is hard for mere mortals to grasp, but he also has a romantic strain that can't be denied.

Meanwhile, the soaring romantic strains of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde on the soundtrack direct us to Eliot's The Waste Land and to thoughts of luxuriant death.

To hear it commandingly spoken by a woman against a lowering sky drained of color and accompanied by the romantic strains of Georges Delerue's score for Godard's "Contempt," is deeply affecting.

The 1974 movie stars Cybill Shepherd as the young American in Europe, whose free-spiritedness adapts easily to the romantic strains of European society and whose relationship with the expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne Barry Brownn) is spoiled by her uninhibited ways.

And if Eat Pray Love was merely a love story, then there wouldn't be a problem, as we swoon to the romantic strains of bossa nova king João Gilberto.

But read one of the essays Said praises — Genet's account of the killings of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982 — and one sees not a titanic visionary in "late style" but an aging romantic straining for urgency.