(n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The work of one of the greatest writers of German Romanticism, E.T.A.
(2) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
(3) "There's a certain romanticism to the hijackers and that's something, again, that Taruskin picks upon.
(4) Reading it again today, one is struck by its rightwing romanticism, its lack of interest in new drama, its belief that tragic heroes have to descend from a great height.
(5) All of these have become twisted in the years since the space race, but Cernan believes we can – and will – recapture that sense of romanticism.
(6) Even though there was a lot of politically committed music during the late 70s and early 80s, there was also New Romanticism, which was essentially people putting their fingers in their ears and going 'Wah-wah-wah-wah'.
(7) Eleven years of New Labour government, of moderation, pragmatism and early nights, have not quenched the party's inherent radicalism or its romanticism.
(8) He said that he felt he may have got carried away with the film's high Germanic romanticism, with the first 10 minutes devoted to a series of visually arresting, apocalyptic tableaux set against the complete Prelude to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
(9) The tension between the church and the world, between Catholic and Protestant, between religion and Romanticism, is now resolved, for all are united against this extreme evil.
(10) The letterings trail and expire, and that sighing of the hand reflects Twombly's self-declared romanticism ("I would've liked to have been Poussin") and the overall psychophysical drift towards release and collapse that is the level on which meaning actually comes through in his art.
(11) That’s a racial slur in our nation’s capitol and a romanticized stereotype,” Houska said of the DC football team, adding that it reinforces the false idea that Native Americans all died out.
(12) And couldn't poor Brod see that in eliding Lehár's jolly and farcical operetta with Wagner's crushing toten lieder , Kafka manages in a single aside to undermine the entire airy and castellated edifice of late German romanticism?
(13) The early Hammer films offer a last gasp of British romanticism, the solid sets drenched in a soft brilliance of shadows, of greys, reds and blues; when these films stray into the far woods, it's always autumn there, never spring.
(14) Fiction blurs with reality, and there is geology and Romanticism, sightseeing and wine-tasting and much rumination on ageing and masculinity, relationships, love, fame and comedy itself.
(15) Estonia finished at sixes and sevens, which felt harsh given the romanticism of their campaign when they have proved to be one of the most enjoyable surprise teams.
(16) For 19th-century poets such as Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, lamenting the final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, themes of loss were mixed with the mysticism of romanticism, Catholicism and suffering to produce an allegorical vocabulary of sacrifice and resistance, as in this verse by Kazimierz Brodziński: Hail O Christ, Thou Lord of Men!
(17) That is the first untruth, for as they know, policy is, at its best, an attempt to impose a framework on an emotional mess of romanticism, reaction, self-interest, altruism and all their many subsets.
(18) He now writes symphonies, concertos, and sacred works of grandiloquent romanticism and religiosity.
(19) The tension between classicism and romanticism expresses itself in clinical problems no less than in theory.
(20) The appointment came shortly after the premiere of McGregor's ballet Chroma, a 21st-century answer to Ashton's Symphonic Variations whose minimalist design and abstract choreography resonated with a passionate, wayward romanticism.
Romanticist
Definition:
(n.) One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within the romanticist ethos of the preceding century, such breaking of bonds would destroy one's identity and the meaning of life.
(2) In his 20 years at the helm of the SNP – barely a single generation – the party has evolved from being a hit-and-hope party favoured by tartan and heather romanticists to the nation’s natural party of government.