The word "unromantic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that lacks romantic qualities or is not conducive to romance. Example: "His unromantic approach to relationships often left his partners feeling unappreciated." Alternatives include "practical," "matter-of-fact," or "unemotional."
The centre-right's few eggheads have a practical, unromantic approach to the EU.
Equally unromantic regarding Lebanon's own failings, he pins the larger part of the blame for its recent sufferings squarely on what he calls "a vastly more arbitrary example of late-imperial arrogance, geopolitical caprice and perniciously misguided philanthropy": Israel.Mr Young describes post-civil-war Lebanon as being "built on a foundation of officially sanctioned amnesia".
"If a bride buys into the wedding industry", writes Ms Mead, "she is promised the happily-ever-after that she, in her big white dress and tiara, deserves".In the vein of Jessica Mitford's exposé of the funeral industry, Ms Mead reveals the unromantic underbelly of the wedding industry.
It was an unromantic, sometimes grubby episode in the history of Irish nationalism, but they had done something rare they had had their cake and eaten it.
Yet too many interfaith couples fail to discuss the faith of their future children before marriage, for fear of seeming unromantic or intolerant.The faithful face a dilemma.
A futures market, for example, would enable growers and buyers to reduce risk by hedging, though it would also complete the unromantic commoditisation of the rose.
Rich couples with troubled marriages and a London connection are watching with a mixture of glee and foreboding.For the typical global couple, such high-profile, big-money cases matter less than the three basic (and deeply unromantic factors) in marriage planning.
For both sexes, however, those in an unromantic mood were indifferent to the public visibility of their choices.These two studies support the idea, familiar from everyday life, that what women want in a partner is material support while men require self-sacrifice.
"It was the first time that it had occurred to me that it was totally unromantic and just a waste," says Mr Colen.
Even the shuttle will live on, in some sense, since the Space Launch System the unromantic name of the beefy rocket needed to loft astronauts and cargoes into high orbits or farther into the solar system will be built partly from recycled shuttle parts in an effort to save money and use familiar technology.
Economic historians, an unromantic bunch, see a peace-offering to a rattled American superpower, presented at a moment when Japan's rise inspired something like panic.
