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romanticism

roh man tuh si zuhm

  • n  impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
  • n  a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
  • n  an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

  • To "mobilize the workers and peasants for socialist construction," Moscow's party line in literature calls for "socialist romanticism.
  • Although other magazines have since adopted this style, she pulls it off with a witty, modern romanticism that makes readers feel they are flipping through a picture book instead .
  • His views veer 180 from Snoopy's gentle romanticism.
News & Articles

  • Miró Quartet performs Sunday at Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock
    The Miró Quartet returns to the Maverick Concert Hall, home of America’s oldest summer chamber music festival, to open the season with a performance of classical and modern works on Sunday at 4 p.m., in a program titled “England and Romanticism.” The distinguished pianist Melvin Chen will join the quartet for a work by Edward Elgar.
    June 28, 2013 - Kingston Daily Freeman
  • Hear Desert Stars' Dusky 'Off the Cliff'
    Brooklyn's Desert Stars conjure the sort of dreamy haze and windswept romanticism that's been mastered by Mazzy Star and Beach House, which is to say newly revealed track "Off the Cliff" is damned pretty...
    June 26, 2013 - Spin
Quotes

  • Christian Prudhomme in San Jose Mercury News
    The idea was really to break the classic scenarios,Tour director Christian Prudhomme said. "I am convinced that cycling will rediscover its romanticism that made it a legend."
  • Gabriela Montero in Washington Post
    There was all the things that I heard about her,Montero recalled. "There was this romanticism, this playfulness and this very volatile temperament of hers. It was all those things. She got a laugh. ...... It was just one of those moments...
  • Armand Assante in National Ledger
    I get the impression it really suits him to do it this way - that he didn't feel the need to follow the path everyone says you should follow just because they say you should. I think he would quite enjoy that and there is a fair bit of romanticism... Luke Darcy http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Darcy&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEkHqCIl8d3V1ARh9m9_pQV6NB41A The Canberra Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/sport/voss-confronts-his-lack-of-experience/1261064.aspx&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHJUGEUpKqYf6qqSasjnLZEBNkiaQ Sep 2, 2008 84577 112588 romanticization Every gangster film in Hollywood is a romanticization," adds Assante, who definitely is the man to know.

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