(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.
Valentine
Definition:
(n.) A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.
(n.) A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day.
Example Sentences:
(1) A lysogenic conversion by a group A phage to production of Panton-Valentine leucocidin and by a group F phage to staphylokinase production could be demonstrated.
(2) A modified form of the model of Valentine and Allison (Biochim.
(3) "I think on a college application you shouldn't even be able to print what your ethnicity is," Kaitlin Valentine, a biology major.
(4) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(5) Iain Valentine, the zoo's director of giant pandas, said: "The annual panda breeding season is imminent and the next 24 hours are critical.
(6) The structure determined here for Amb a V is topologically similar to the structure determined previously for the homologous allergenic protein Amb t V [Metzler, W. J., Valentine, K., Roebber, M., Friedrichs, M. S., Marsh, D., & Mueller, L. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 5117-5127]; however, significant differences exist in the packing of side chains in the hydrophobic core of the molecules.
(7) The role of antagonistic muscles is clearly showed by Bouvier in 1851 on the level of the metacarpo-phalangeal joints and by Valentin and Tubiana in 1962 on the level of the proximal interphalangeal joints.
(8) The single most depressing thing one could say about a baseball franchise, of course, would be that they hired Bobby Valentine as their new manager, which is just what the Red Sox said after the worst September collapse in their history.
(9) It was Valentine's Day the other day and I had enough in to buy flowers for the missus.
(10) Those being scrutinised include Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, who resigned as a marketing executive after being accused of involvement in corruption aimed at covering up doping scandals in Russia, and Valentin Balakhnichev, a former IAAF treasurer who left his post as president of the Russian athletics federation after similar allegations were made against him.
(11) Is it all down to pitcher-whisperer Farrell or a return to norm after a wasted years Valentining?
(12) For those who argue that we should not judge the values of the past by those of the present,” Cornwell told the Guardian, “one could, and should, object that it’s important to learn the lessons of history.” To Native Americans like Valentin Lopez, the chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band based in Sacramento, those lessons are not complicated.
(13) joined with AME to send 3,000 roses to federal politicians on Valentines Day and hosted a dinner for three same-sex couples with then prime minister Julia Gillard, hoping to persuade her to change her stance.
(14) Valentin Brylev, 65, a Ukrainian Cossack, said that Donetsk is not divided.
(15) It's a Valentine's Day present – perfect for our new place.
(16) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.
(17) On Valentine's day ( V-Day ) Together for Girls hosted a Twitter chat asking for innovative tactics that can end violence against women and children.
(18) In a move that will be seen as part of a Russian attempt to limit the damage, its National Olympic Committee asked former Russian track federation president Valentin Balakhnichev to resign from its executive board.
(19) There is going to be a huge call on ensuring that those who do business in Sierra Leone pay their fair share of taxes so that Sierra Leone stands a chance of rebuilding its systems,” said Valentin.
(20) On Valentine’s Day, the Twitter account of Kellyanne Conway, one of the president’s most prominent surrogates, shared a tweet from a self-described “white identity” “nationalist” account attacking liberals, noting: “Love you back!” Conway later said that she had not been the one to share the tweet.