I. adjective
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a romantic cliché (= something romantic that is rather boring because many people do it )
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Giving a girl red roses is a bit of a romantic cliché.
a romantic comedy
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'Four weddings and a Funeral' is a well-known romantic comedy.
a romantic dinner (= for two people in a romantic relationship )
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Clive and Denise were enjoying a romantic dinner for two in a quiet French restaurant.
a romantic drama (= about a romance )
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It is a wartime romantic drama.
a romantic ideal
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I gave up my romantic ideal of love at the age of nineteen.
a romantic notion (= one that is based on how you want something to be, not how it is in real life )
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He rejected the romantic notion of rugby as a game for gentlemen.
detective/romantic/historical etc novel
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a newly published science fiction novel
hopeless romantic/materialist/drunk etc
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She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.
romantic comedy
romantic love
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Romantic love was not always the reason for marriage.
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■ NOUN
attachment
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It is not just a romantic attachment between two individuals to the exclusion of the world at large.
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I know I should not allow one of my dearest friends to discover so late on of my romantic attachment ....
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Again, I am not just talking about romantic attachments , but also about simple friendships.
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And 46 percent of the under-25s said they didn't view marriage as their last romantic attachment .
comedy
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There will be fewer big action pictures and more romantic comedies .
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This mutual stretching of personas is what works best in the new romantic comedy about a couple of blue-collar thieves.
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It is neither a romantic comedy in the vein of Four Weddings nor a warm-hearted tale about Sheffield steel workers.
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It is a romantic comedy , and I play a really bad person.
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Once, coming back from New York, we were all watching a romantic comedy .
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The problem seems to be that Cleese and co-writer Iain Johnstone have taken the featherweight demands of the romantic comedy to heart.
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They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track.
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This surprisingly funny, reverse-Cyrano lark is witty, wise and the most romantic comedy so far this year.
fantasy
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The romantic fantasy world that she had entered when she left the train with Ludo was dissolving in the light of reality.
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These somewhat steamy romances feature a variety of contemporary problems all solved within an atmosphere of romantic fantasy .
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She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy .
fiction
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In short, a romantic fiction of unashamed sentimentality.
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The earlier feminist critics such as McRobbie and Garber argued that girls learned their roles partly through romantic fiction and girls' magazines.
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I saw a picture of Jane Asher in the same suit at a romantic fiction judging evening.
figure
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As well as admiring Modigliani's talent, Zborowski found him a romantic figure , living a life he would have liked to lead.
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She was not exactly a romantic figure .
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You were a romantic figure , come to restore our fortunes.
hero
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Sir Anthony Hopkins says it's a privilege to play a romantic hero at 55.
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Terry, after all, is no romantic hero .
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Hornblower is not a romantic hero but a hero in spite of himself.
idea
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His romantic idea that gangsters closer to reality than the rest of us.
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And that romantic idea had to sustain me through the realities of actually working on the 128K Mac....
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I got pregnant because you spent all my life filling my head with romantic ideas rather than giving me any practical advice.
interest
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Nick Nolte plays the president-to-be, with Greta Scacchi as his romantic interest .
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We meet in the Game, and we both know that we have other romantic interests there.
lead
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In those days I don't think there was an average looking or homely looking person playing romantic leads .
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Woody Allen has been a romantic lead .
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He still looked like a romantic lead .
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But he's singing like a romantic lead .
love
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The reason for this fall is the fact that romantic love can not be sustained without an underlying friendship.
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There is also the fact that in our culture romantic love eludes both rational analysis and individual control.
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To us the flood of romantic love should be searched for and found before marriage.
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Then again, perhaps rough, tough Spacefleet troopers manifested peculiarly understated displays of romantic love .
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In addition to romantic love , the major tie that is still operative between male and female is the project of reproduction.
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To see them is to believe in love , real old-fashioned romantic love.
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Kissing became the gesture of romantic love , and future actors took up the torch.
notion
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But I'd had my suspicions and didn't share his romantic notion of a farewell from anonymous royalty.
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Of course, it takes a lot more than a romantic notion to open and sustain a successful restaurant.
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De Gaulle's romantic notions were balanced by a harsh realism.
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It is a gut-level response, based on romantic notions about college sports.
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His romantic notions of Oscar Wilde are fully acted out while he stays in this condition.
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That romantic notion held sway over me, and probably delayed my perception of Clarisa as some one with a medical problem.
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However, there is the problem of the romantic notion of pure art devoid of social responsibility.
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Living conditions in the countryside had never approached the Arcadian well-being implied in romantic notions of sturdy peasants following the plough.
novel
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Escapism isn't just limited to dipping into science fiction or a romantic novel .
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As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbuster romantic novel or epic costume film.
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You've been reading too many romantic novels , she told herself.
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It was under this imprint that the light romantic novels were issued which constituted the staple fare of Lane's circulating libraries.
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Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel .
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She loved to dress in expensive, eye-catching clothes and enjoyed reading romantic novels .
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They are, however, rather more explicit in their demands of the romantic novel .
novelist
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The romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland has joined the battle to save an eleventh century abbey.
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One of the guests was a rather fey romantic novelist .
relationship
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It was a habit he had that confirmed to Ruth that a romantic relationship with him could never be.
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The panel consisted of four women, all of whom had had a romantic relationship as an undergraduate with a professor.
story
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As a postscript to my days in Port Said, perhaps I can tell one brief, romantic story .
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Romance readers' advisory service is connecting the romance reader with the proper romantic story .
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You can not sit back in your little room writing a nice romantic story about loving couples.
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Her reasons for and the results of her actions form the plot of this romantic story .
view
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She rejects a purely romantic view of the relations of men and women.
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As a raft of scientists have now informed me, the Rousseauian romantic view of allergies is way off.
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Crossing the bridge, look back at the romantic view of the palaces backing on to the canal.
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Although he was a native New Yorker, like many denizens of that city he had a romantic view of country life.
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The new socialist criminology of the 1960s and 1970s, however, marked a return to the more romantic view .
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Her upbringing had not encouraged a romantic view of life.
vision
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But I doubt that such a romantic vision really matches the truth.
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The romantic vision of things to come is constantly juxtaposed with the seedy realities of the police state.
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This is not a romantic vision .
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a romantic comedy in which Meg Ryan plays a single mother looking for love
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I'm in the most stable romantic relationship I've ever had.
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I've always thought it would be so romantic to be serenaded.
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Paris is such a romantic city.
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We shared a gourmet meal in a romantic , candle-lit restaurant.
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We went for a lovely romantic walk by the lake.
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Why don't you send him a little romantic card and see how he reacts?
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You have a very romantic and foolish idea of science.
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Again, more men than women endorsed the romantic ideal by answering yes.
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His proper names show the same self-conscious striving for a romantic atmosphere.
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I saw a picture of Jane Asher in the same suit at a romantic fiction judging evening.
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In all of these depictions, parenthood is romantic , rollicking fun in which men are integrally involved.
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It is part of the romantic ideal that the promise of a beautiful woman is the promise of eternal perfection.
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Like Modigliani, Jeanne was a romantic , a mysterious young woman with soulful blue eyes and a generous mouth.
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Others find vinyl recordings warmer, more romantic .
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Then a quieter, more romantic one.
II. noun
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I'm a romantic who likes picnics and candlelight dinners.
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Against the sensuality of the romantic , Berlin offered the sobriety of the realist.
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Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.
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Struggling with this recalcitrant material, the director, an unreconstructed romantic , slapped on the atmosphere with a lavish hand.
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Unlike many of his dancers, Horton was a romantic rather than an ideologue.
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Whatever hurts he had suffered in the past, with his Leo open-heartedness, he was one of nature's true romantics.