9 sentences with 'romantic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word romantic and other words derived from it.
• « This romantic river, the Danube, flows through eight countries, passing the flame of history, as well as severe pollution, from one nation to another. »
• « Mark Antony followed in Caesar's footsteps by forging a political alliance and romantic relationship with Cleopatra, and the two were able to rule the eastern provinces of the Republic in defiance of Octavian. »
• « The myth of Napoleon was also significant - he became the great romantic hero, despite his own decidedly unromantic personality, thought of as a modern Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great (as he hoped). »
• « The point of the Brothers Grimm's work was to reach into the remote past to capture the "essence" of what it meant to be "German". At the time, there was no country called Germany, and yet romantic nationalists like the Grimms believed that there was a kind of Germanic soul that lived in the old folk songs, the German language and German traditions. »
• « In many cases, the romantic nationalists did something that historians later called "inventing traditions". »
• « This idea of "people" was deeply romantic because it spoke of an essentially emotional sense of national identity, a sense of camaraderie and solidarity with individuals with whom a given person might not have much in common. »
• « Garibaldi was an adventurer, a romantic nationalist and a revolutionary who had spent most of his adult life as a mercenary fighting in independence campaigns and wars, mainly in South America. »
• « Bismarck belonged to an old Prussian noble family, a Junker, and had no time for romantic nationalist nonsense, but he directly brought about German unification. »
• « Liberation was as much about breaking social mores as it was about effecting political change. For example, the idea that it was perfectly acceptable to live with a romantic partner before marriage went from being a fringe, "bohemian" concept to one that was widely accepted. »