| 单词 | romanticism |
| 释义 | romanticism (once / 6538 pages) n Movies that present emotional stories of love, terror, and rescue, appeal to your sense of romanticism. Highly-charged situations of love and loss allow you to escape reality for a little while. The suffix ism indicates a condition, so romanticism is the condition of being romantic, or yearning for the imaginative and adventurous. The word originally meant "of the Roman style," and referred to using Romance languages rather than the Frankish, or Germanic. It then came to mean Medieval tales of knightly chivalry, and later included love stories. In the late 18th Century, Romanticism became a major artistic movement, infusing art, music, and literature with the emotional cores of adventure and love. WORD FAMILYromanticism: neoromanticism, romanticist, romanticistic+/romance: romanced, romances, romancing, romantic/romantic: romantically, romanticise, romanticism, romanticize, romantics, unromantic/romanticise: romanticisation, romanticised, romanticises, romanticising/romanticist: romanticists/romanticize: romanticization, romanticized, romanticizes, romanticizing/unromantic: unromantically USAGE EXAMPLESThe romanticism of Paterson’s artistic isolation, of the solitary pursuit of art by a seeming separate inspiration, is an intoxicating myth. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) Below the movie’s screwball shenanigans is a core of romanticism signaled in its soundtrack. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) I think we each just got caught up in the romanticism of it all. New York Times(Nov 02, 2016) 1n impractical romantic ideals and attitudes Hyper idealism impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are 2n an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) Syn|Hypo|Hyper romance stardust a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone Romanticism (once / 39530 pages) n WORD FAMILY Romanticism USAGE EXAMPLESIndeed, Shchukin’s first purchases were creditable but benign, including a whiff of Romanticism: a lakeside enchanted castle by the Scottish painter James Paterson. New York Times(Oct 28, 2016) But every gesture of midcentury Romanticism in “The Girl From Venice” is a received one, repackaged and presented as the most profound wisdom. New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) The turn of the nineteenth century is often described as the dawn of Romanticism, the movement in the arts that so enthralled Europe. The New Yorker(Oct 10, 2016) n a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality Syn|Ant|Hyper Romantic Movement classicalism, classicism a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms artistic style, idiom the style of a particular artist or school or movement arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal artsstudies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) |
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