Example sentences for: romanticism

How can you use “romanticism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The '60s also saw the invention of art rock , which ranged from the minimalism of the Velvet Underground to the florid romanticism of Yes.

  • Under his military exterior he was a pure aesthete, a devotee of esoteric literature and musty medieval romanticism, a kind of tactical symbolist.

  • Beautifully acted, beautifully scored, and most beautifully shot, it gives a self-conscious nod to mob-movie romanticism without gutting the myth a la Scorsese's 1990 gangster hit, Goodfellas . (It also provides the best role Gabriel Byrne is ever likely to get: half Richard Burton, half Al Pacino)

  • Realism tempers the romanticism of idealists with a sense of tragedy.

  • And Chaplin makes a marvelous partner for Smith's vivaciously silly Mrs. Penniman, all shiny-eyed with vicarious pleasure and perfumed by her own cheap romanticism.


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