13 sentences with 'romantic'

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• « The romantic novel told a passionate and dramatic love story. »

• « The lady smiled upon receiving the romantic note from her admirer. »

• « Her hair fell in strands over her temple, giving her a romantic air. »

• « The romantic poet captures the essence of beauty and melancholy in his lyrical writings. »

• « In many cases, the romantic nationalists did something that historians later called "inventing traditions". »

• « This romantic river, the Danube, flows through eight countries, passing the flame of history, as well as severe pollution, from one nation to another. »

• « 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. »

• « 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. »

• « 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). »

• « 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. »

• « 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. »

• « 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. »

• « 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. »

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