romanticism
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"My generation thrives off romanticising things," says Dani, a 20-year-old student at the University of Manchester.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
"I'm kind of romanticising the crappy little spit and sawdust venues I went to when I grew up," he explains.
From BBC • May 6, 2021
But some of those old enough to remember when mob culture thrived in Singapore in the years before and after the island gained independence from Britain in 1965 cautioned against romanticising the past.
From Reuters • May 25, 2020
Still, he can’t help romanticising the myth of the male rock star.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2018
In Southey's hands the blank verse, which in the last century had been almost an ear-mark of the romanticising schools, is far more classical than the heroic couplet which Morris writes.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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