What's the difference between platonic and romantic?

Platonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Platonical
  • (n.) A follower of Plato; a Platonist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And beneath them, Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid, the only black woman in a room of images of mostly white men, is doing her best to follow Platon's directions.
  • (2) "A Platonic academy, or symposium," he says, "is a group of people sitting round a table discussing ideas, which is a great thing to do.
  • (3) All the people who Platon has photographed are used to being in control.
  • (4) Moretti has spoken previously of making criticism less like a Platonic academy, and more like a laboratory.
  • (5) Platon, born in 1968 in London, has won many international awards for his work.
  • (6) For some reason, no actual lake I visit ever measures up to the ideal platonic lake for which I yearn.
  • (7) Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky, 47, and his business partner, Platon Lebedev, 54, to 14 years in a penal colony, including time already served, meaning the pair will not be free for seven more years.
  • (8) And the platonic concept of a library can be a caravan with some books in it.
  • (9) Sage's major study of neo-Platonism and English poetry was uncompleted at the time of her death.
  • (10) We are platonic adult roommates who hold hands at bars.
  • (11) Yet for a fraction of a second Platon is the one with power.
  • (12) And the first rule is, you have to be platonic first.
  • (13) Ihave the deepest sympathy for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his fellow unfortunate, Platon Lebedev .
  • (14) Earlier Platon Lebedev, Khodorkovsky's co-defendant, angrily dismissed the Kremlin charges as "rotten".
  • (15) Platon Platon’s portrait of Ahmadinejad I had an idea that all our leaders are presented to us through a veil of propaganda.
  • (16) There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love.
  • (17) Platon Lebedev, another former executive, who was jailed by a Russian court on tax-evasion charges and was released this year, is another victor.
  • (18) Photograph: Platon for the Observer And then that's it.
  • (19) On the walls are dozens of enlarged close-ups of other people who have all sat, at one time or another, for Platon , the London-born photographer who has made his name and career photographing the rich and powerful.
  • (20) This article was corrected on 22 May: the Piraeus University economics professor is Platon Tinios, not Platos

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.