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a movement in literature, art and music during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrates nature above civilization and instinctual emotions above reason

Romanticism values imagination and emotion over rationality.

They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
The damnable romanticism of these pure hearts!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
I admire Victor Hugo—I appreciate his genius, his brilliancy, his romanticism; though he is not one of my literary passions.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
CHAPTER XLV TROY'S ROMANTICISM When Troy's wife had left the house at the previous midnight his first act was to cover the dead from sight.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
It replaced reportage with romanticism.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Then we shall take the main outline of Kant's philosophy so that we can get to Romanticism.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
If he kissed her hand, it was to bid her good night; he did it with a schoolboy look on his face that drained all romanticism from the gesture.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
The question was about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure romanticism.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
"Is your aunt's romanticism always consistent with accuracy?"
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
"You know," Ben said, "your romanticism is a real inspiration."
John Green -- Paper Towns
My father became depressed because people had begun to embrace Fazlullah's words and his religious romanticism.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
Eliza had suffered one or two losses in her investments, led astray by a strain of wild romanticism which destroyed for the moment her shrewd caution.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
As for Lavinia, he hated to talk to her about the matter; she annoyed him with her mock romanticism.
Henry James -- Washington Square
If Gringoire had lived in our day, what a fine middle course he would hold between classicism and romanticism!
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
That was the age of romanticism in literature, music, art, and philosophy.
James M. McPherson -- What They Fought For - 1861-1865
The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
The absence of a strong ethic suited to our age, the rise of the machine, the decadence of Romanticism as it ended a long and fruitful existence... who knows?
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
No matter how brutal the Institute was in its ritesof initiation and passage, there was always a heartbreaking romanticism in all the ceremonies and forms of the military.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Thus Napoleon represented glory and Franklin liberty; Irma was perhaps a concession to romanticism, but Athalie was a homage to the greatest masterpiece of the French stage.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

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