What's the difference between byronic and romantic?

Byronic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (2) Only a few stragglers outside O'Byron's pub refused to believe this was happening on Good Friday.
  • (3) Maybe Byron, or Yukio Mishima, the Japanese writer, who killed himself very dramatically, but that was more sloppy than this thing that Bowie has done now.
  • (4) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
  • (5) Most of the 35 workers arrested in a controversial immigration sting at the Byron hamburger chain have been removed from the UK.
  • (6) His Schwarzman Scholars educational program funds research into the impact of climate change, and here’s Blackstone’s vice-chairman Byron Wien on climate change in a blogpost from last year: “The climate change problem is real, but not immediate and it is hard to get policy makers to focus on it, despite rising temperatures and sea levels ...
  • (7) A few years ago, he bought Lord Byron's old country estate in Hampton Court, and by all accounts the refurbishments would make Versailles look modest.
  • (8) He finished the session with his head in his hands, walked out, put it in a drawer, and forgot about it – until Mark Rylance, also now nominated for a Tony, came across a copy and declared an interest in the main character, Johnny "Rooster" Byron.
  • (9) Immigration raid on Byron Hamburgers rounds up 35 workers Read more “They had a list of names and some photos, which presumably they got from human resources in head office,” said one worker.
  • (10) After filling your belly with the very best British cream tea, sitting on a deckchair surrounded by fruiting apple trees at The Orchard Tea Garden, why not take a dip in the refreshingly cool and clear Byron's Pool, where Lord Byron himself was fond of a skinny dip.
  • (11) Well-known personalities who suffered from club-foot, such as Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, are mentioned and it is shown how the deformity affected them.
  • (12) I had things like a laptop, my clothes, all the things you need for life in London.” He was paid £10 an hour at Byron, where he worked for two years doing 50- to 70-hour weeks, he said.
  • (13) But Lord Byron was, perhaps, the most direct of them all: “We of the craft are all crazy,” he told the Countess of Blessington, casting a wary eye over his fellow poets.
  • (14) "We not going to invade anybody's privacy," Byron's Simmons-Edmunds said.
  • (15) Mickelson has five majors to his name, a statistic that places him alongside Seve Ballesteros, Peter Thomson and Byron Nelson in the golfing annals.
  • (16) Byron Moreno of Ecuador was the referee when Italy lost in the last 16 of the 2002 World Cup to the co-hosts South Korea .
  • (17) In lieu of scripts, Winterbottom will give them a story, a scenario, topics for discussion (in this case, anything from the Italian adventures of Byron and Shelley to the merits of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill ), and then the pair allow the conversation to meander off at their leisure.
  • (18) Migrant workers are often targets for that exploitation – underpaid and brutally discarded, as we saw in the past week at Byron.
  • (19) The agency had previously said in a statement on Monday there was no evidence to support the claim made by Byron Bailey, a former pilot, which was reported in the Australian newspaper .
  • (20) Now read on Byron is an irresistible character for many writers: try Paul West's Lord Byron's Doctor, written from Polidori's point of view, for a convincing portrait of an erotomaniac club-footed guru, while Byron's ghost looms throughout Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.

Romantic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.
  • (a.) Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.
  • (a.) Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When my boyfriend and I first got together a year ago, our sex life was romantic and playful.
  • (2) A much less romantic example, but one that exists across the country, is being given a bath by a careworker.
  • (3) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (4) Let's stay together Modern love places more value on how an individual can flourish in relationships, according to a 2013 study in the Journal of Communication , and thus Generation Y have a different romantic dynamic than their parents.
  • (5) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
  • (6) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
  • (7) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
  • (8) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
  • (9) ("A raw candid exploration of art, fame, fandom, drugs, love, romantic dysfunction," says IMDB.)
  • (10) A survey was administered to assess the differences between friends and romantics regarding the experience and expression of jealousy.
  • (11) I thought Mark was perfect: smart, romantic (he wrote me love notes in year 9 French) and quite handsome.
  • (12) He began his career as a professor at Yale, specialising in the Romantic poets.
  • (13) "It's not romantic, it is much more heartfelt than that.
  • (14) The one thing romantics have to remember is that though you might well try to stop your daughter getting mixed up with one, there is no necessary connection between being a good ruler and being a loving and faithful mate.
  • (15) Point one read: “Create the rebirth of heroical behavioural ideals of an artist-intellectual… the artist as romantic hero, who prevails over evil.
  • (16) The romantic choice but also an entirely sensible one.
  • (17) If that attitude could sometimes frustrate senior editors’ desire to raise standards – if it could, in the end, be blamed for the calamitous failure to spot the misdeeds of Johann Hari – it was also the only thing that kept the paper from falling apart completely: an irresistibly romantic underdog spirit, a sense that since this plainly wasn’t a viable business, it had to be a cause.
  • (18) Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules.
  • (19) She doesn’t see the difference between sharing, say, pictures of a romantic supper during a weekend in Paris and what you do in your hotel room at the end of the night.
  • (20) Up against the continuing might of animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 , as well as fellow debutants including romantic drama The Choice and horror-comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , the 50s-set tale of a major film star gone missing scored just $11.4m (£7.9m) to open in second place.

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