romanticism
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The effect heightens the romanticism of characters who are no longer lost to us in translation.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Puccini’s melodic gift in works like “La Bohème” and “Tosca” captured emotional intensity and sweeping romanticism.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026
Any mention of "DNA" is usually laced with romanticism.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026
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.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Here is Bertrand Russell using it to explain the movement called romanticism: The romantic movement is characterized, as a whole, by the substitution of aesthetic for utilitarian standards.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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