romanticism

This period saw a brilliant revitalization by Roman writers and orators of older Greek rhetorical techniques; it was “tinged with a romanticism common to movements oriented toward the distant past.”

France will need all that romanticism and rebellion to keep England at bay.

Paul Swinney, a director at the Centre for Cities think tank, argues that there is a certain romanticism in the debate around steel that blocks sensible thinking.

Lucy finds herself torn between the cynicism and mathematical practicality her job has hardened in her and a yearning romanticism she wishes she could be open to.

That means finding a middle ground between romanticism and realism.