Byronically

[bahy-rahn-ik-lee]

adverb

1. in the characteristic romantic, melancholic, etc., manner of a Byronic hero or literary style.

Example Sentences

Then, after the couple returns to England, “The Hawk in the Rain” makes its author almost Byronically famous.

From Washington Post

The tweediness of our faculty, and the curriculum itself, which began, Hellenically, Byronically, with Homer, and then skipped straight to Chaucer, moving on to Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Tennyson, and E. M. Forster.

From Literature

The shirt collar should never have a color on it, but it may be stiff or turned down according as the wearer is Byronically or Brummellically disposed.

From Project Gutenberg

Allen, four years younger, was Byronically romantic and found a place for his temperament in intelligence work.

From Time Magazine Archive

But at last he rose up against Fate; he cursed it Byronically.

From Project Gutenberg