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  • noun Plural form of romanticist.

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Examples

  • This has appeal for certain romanticists, but it is essentially a yearning, not a realistic policy.

    Recession, Inflation and Energy 1975

  • He had been impressed by the events of 1848 which determined his career and he devoted himself to a laborious study of innovating systems, especially of those men who are sometimes called the romanticists of Socialism, St. Simon, Fourier, Cabet, Owen, Louis

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • But if these autobiographians are, as I believe, expansive romanticists, that is of deeper significance, and my hope is that the definition may prove useful to them as well as to readers who with an amazed affection persist in following them wherever they lead.

    Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

  • [15] One of the principles of the romanticists was the _mélange des genres_, whereby the old lines between tragedy and comedy, _e. g._, were broken down, lyricism admitted into the drama, etc.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • Western "romanticists" disguised as tourists visit to have a taste of the "wilderness".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • It is not uncommon, therefore, to find poets like Byron and Shelly classified as romanticists, by virtue of their possession of these, or similar, characteristics, although no one could be more remote from medieval habits of thought than the author of "Don Juan" or the author of "The

    A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

  • No cock-and-bull stories for him, such as you romanticists luxuriate in.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • From this viewpoint (I would be happy to hear whether romanticists think it is mis-named "romantic"), the seriously consequential mistake that Said's concept of orientalism diagnosed in Western visions of the East can easily flip over into occidentalism, a blanket hostility to the West from within the West.

    Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism 2008

  • Sen. Obama and his company (romanticists) has little faith and are in the blame game.

    McCain focuses on GI Bill, Iraq on Memorial Day 2008

  • The Nazis were romanticists using 20th Century technology to attain Medieval dreams transcending national identity just as African nation states resent the imposition of defining frontiers set by European colonial powers crossing tribal lines.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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