0 describing things in a way that makes them sound more exciting or mysterious than they really are
1 a style of art, music, and literature, popular in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, that deals with the beauty of nature and human emotions
While it requires some careful reading between the lines, the story unfolding is evidence of anything but glory and romanticism.
The mood of the school was marked by support for 1956 in which political awareness was coupled with student romanticism.
In life as in music he had a horror of that self-exposure which he complained of in romanticism.
No romanticism colored her view of harems, for example.
Many linguists would have trouble distinguishing romanticism from realism, and modernism from postmodernism.
A new sensibility, akin to modern romanticism, is developing.
Romanticism was a somewhat early but not unprecedented move.
Periods of romanticism favoured the particular in local and national histories while periods of rationalism favoured generalizing interpretations, often on a larger scale.