(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.
Saccharine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.
(n.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since d-fenfluramine failed to alter saccharin preference, it is unlikely that the slowed eating rate induced by this compound indicates a reduction in food palatability.
(2) The onset of tolerance to morphine analgesia was studied in 34 female Wistar rats immediately after they drank a dextrose-saccharin cocktail or tap water for 6 or 24 hours.
(3) the colours: Allura red AC, erythrosine, canthaxanthin and the caramels; three anti-oxidants: BHA, BHT and the gallates; the sweeteners: polyols, aspartame, saccharin and cyclamates.
(4) The exposure of the mouse bladder to saccharin was very brief, because the time required for 50 percent of the compound to be eluted from the pellets was about 5.5 hours.
(5) The rats were then poisoned with lithium chloride after each of three sessions in an attempt to condition a taste aversion to the saccharin.
(6) The saccharin litters were mainly characterized by a slowering in the body growth evolution.
(7) 3-Amino[3-14C]benz[d]isothiazole-1, 1-dioxide was prepared from [3-14C]-saccharin.
(8) A shift of intake from 5% to 10% ethanol was also demonstrated with increasing time under shock, while saccharin and water intake decreased.
(9) A two-bottle choice test between the saccharin solution and water was given to all animals on the third and fourth days after the conditioning day.
(10) These results are consistent with reports which have found that rats selected for high or low alcohol intake have corresponding high and low intakes of saccharin.
(11) Other results revealed that ibotenic acid lesions of the insular cortex attenuated the reaction to the novel taste of saccharin in a familiar environment but failed to affect the ingestion of a novel food in a novel environment or passive avoidance learning.
(12) An illness-induced taste aversion was conditioned in rats by pairing saccharin with cyclophosphamide, an immunosuppressive agent.
(13) On each trial, access to saccharin at normal ambient temperature was followed by injection of drug or saline and placement for 6 hr into a temperature-controlled enclosure.
(14) However, saccharin does not trigger a fixed rate of lapping at any point in the sequence.
(15) Before and after treatment the following were recorded: subjective and objective nasal MCT time, using an original composition of vegetable charcoal powder and saccharin powder at 3%; nasal obstruction.
(16) They were trained to respond on a tongue-operated solenoid-driven drinking device that delivered 0.005 ml of a glucose and saccharin solution (G + S) per lick.
(17) Quantitation of o- and p-sulfamoylbenzoic acid residues in saccharin and its sodium salt is achieved by a method comprising methanolic extraction and high-performance ion exchange chromatography.
(18) Unlike typical carcinogens which interact with DNA, sodium saccharin is not genotoxic, but leads to an increase in cell proliferation of the urothelium, the only target tissue.
(19) The correlation between the FDD test, the Jones fluorescein test, and the saccharin taste test was low.
(20) Five-week-old F344 male rats were given sodium saccharin as 5% of the diet beginning either immediately (Group 1) or 2, 4, 6, or 18 weeks (Groups 2, 3, 4, or 5, respectively) after freezing of the bladder, and sacrificed 2 years after the start of the experiment.