What is "romantically"

Usage examples of "romantically".

But even I am forced to admit that they are a ridiculous people, just as one must confess that the British are bungling, the Italians incompetent, the Americans neurotic, the Germans romantically savage, the Arabs vicious, the Russians barbaric, and the Dutch make cheese.

Given the ends of photojournalism, Ressler is not surprised to catch the gist: the boy is young, single, romantically eccentric, a crank hypochondriac, never seen without his panoply of pills and jars of spring water.

German town of Eisenach, nestling at the foot of the wooded heights which form part of the romantically beautiful district of the Thuringer Wald.

At the masked ball, he speaks in confidence to the disguised Claudio as though addressing Benedick, warning him that Don Pedro seems romantically interested in the young lady for himself.

Holo Corporation of America, tied to Loring Aircraft, engaged to Entertainment Talent Associates, in bed with Deseret Pacific Industries, romantically linked to Latter-Day Shale.

It was the greatest, most exciting game Colleen had ever seen, and not only because she was romantically involved with the quarterback.

His life, which I had tended to think about, romantically, as that of an independent and solitary-minded fisherman, spent of his own choice in the security of a quiet outport, had, in bitter truth, been a life lived out in prison-trapped -for he, too, had dreamed.

The only other habitation in the vicinity was the romantically named House of Tides, the home of Lady Belling ham, former actress and black sheep of the county.

The books about sport and mountaineering, of fifty years ago, tell of his exploits as an athlete, and of his mountain climbings in Switzerland and Mexico, and there is a book of famous bets called Light Come Light Go, in which you can read of how for a bet he swam the Thames in evening clothes and a high hat — but later on, and more romantically, he swam the Hellespont like Leander and Lord Byron.

Clumps of dielytra and day-lilies bloomed behind the paling, and a crooked elm hung romantically over the gable of the house.

I was grateful when I first arrived in Tashkent to have brought notes from another, less romantically inclined volume: Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege, by Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Jr.

Their names would never be linked romantically until, as the result of their collaboration in bringing the Salvation home, they found that they shared a community of interests, especially in public service, and decided to marry, a very natural development.

There was an interview with a surly sounding exboyfriend named Lyle Abernathy, who seemed convinced that she was romantically involved with a "certain unnamed Santa Teresa attorney," but no one had pinned it down much beyond that.

And, though the religious and political divide which so heavily informed the population still remained - and John, his driver, would rattle off his views on Wolfe Tone~and Robert Emmet, on Presbyterians and the Battle of the Boyne as easily as his London equivalent would talk sport - Mark found himself drawn to the fighting families, and sometimes romantically considered whether in that nexus there was a story and a centre to this abscess, more Mafia than patriotic, more gang warfare than ideological terrorist rebellion, more heart and history than dogma and politics.

Sweet girlish dreams, nonsensical but essential She even fancied that he watched her from time to time1 romantically, that he might even challenge the god Minos for her.