What's the difference between romanticist and sentimentalist?
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.
Sentimentalist
Definition:
(n.) One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
(2) NPR pointed out that putting Tubman on the $20 bill would be poetic because of “a special historical resonance: that’s the same amount she eventually received from the US government as her monthly pension for her service as a nurse, scout, cook and spy during the Civil War, as well as for her status as the widow of a veteran.” But Tubman wasn’t a sentimentalist, or an incrementalist.
(3) Though sentimentalists would like to see him play at the World Cup finals in South Africa, he'll come on only if things are desperate or because England have already been eliminated.
(4) Maybe just carry on being the sort of supernatural-inspired sentimentalist that King fans know and love.
(5) As compared to other temperament types the sentimentalists showed most intense conflict areas which was reflected in antituberculosis treatment.
(6) I suspect our own contemporary and rather less scholarly Johnson understands a little better than the sentimentalists he’s whipped up that no dictionary properly defines their “patriotism”.
(7) Now, in defence of this particular 80s sentimentalist, I would like it to be on record – or on cassette, perhaps – that I have often thought how much better life was when one could rewind particular lyrics instead of having to skip to the beginning of the song, as one usually has to do with CDs and downloaded music.
(8) Sentimentalists are already building barricades against the notion that Klose, an unspectacular penalty-box finisher, could leave South Africa as the nonpareil of strikers.
(9) They are not, as has sometimes been claimed, ancient colonial sentimentalists or those left by dark foreign forces to create disturbance after the colonialists had gone, but a new generation with a different take on life from their predecessors.