romantic
Example Sentences
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The title of Mr. Dikötter’s book is, of course, a play on Snow’s, whose effort is, “at heart, a romantic tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom.”
For these survivors—the grandmothers and great-grandmothers who populate many romantic fantasies—“Italy” seldom meant idyllic country vistas and cardiologists’ dream culinary joys.
And before the Games are over, they could find themselves on a romantic Italian date, facing off in the elimination round of the Olympic women’s hockey tournament.
Quantitatively, what she describes as these "everyday attentive acts" turned out to be much more powerful than grand romantic gestures.
From BBC
For the public’s purposes, she was a cipher onto which we were urged to project our romantic fantasies.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
