half-romantic
- a word derived from romantic.
Example Sentences
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By taking his own amoral unconscious as a point of departure for half-romantic, half-eclectic labors Klee followed a great German tradition which began with Goethe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Will you both agree to a compromise and accept some half-romantic, half-pious verses which I composed and set to music?
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry
Another German maintains that Thucydides has indulged in “a fanciful and half-romantic picture of events.”
From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford
The young, handsome, highly-gifted stranger, whom a half-romantic, half-mysterious air surrounded, had only to make his appearance even here to draw all eyes upon him.
From The Sign of Flame by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
It was strange to think that this was the environment of those half-romantic figures of history.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
