Byronically

American  

[bahy-rahn-ik-lee] / baɪˈrɑn ɪk li /

adverb

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2015

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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 The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.

For it must be understood that, though she expected Conway Dalrymple to marry, she expected also that he should be Byronically wretched after his marriage on account of his love for herself.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony