Romanticistic

I am never so enamoured of a cause that I will not admit facts that seem to tell against it, and I will allow that this writer of romanticistic short stories has more than any other supplied us with memorable types and characters. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

It serves equally the ideal and the real; that which it is loath to serve is the unreal, so that among the short stories which have recently made reputations for their authors very few are of that peculiar cast which we have no name for but romanticistic. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

At heart Clemens was romantic, and he would have had the world of fiction stately and handsome and whatever the real world was not; but he was not romanticistic, and he was too helplessly an artist not to wish his own work to show life as he had seen it. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

The only distinguished modern writer of romanticistic novelle whom I can think of is Mr. Bret Harte, and he is of a period when romanticism was so imperative as to be almost a condition of fiction. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Balzac, when he imagined these monsters, was not Balzac, he was Dumas; he was not realistic, he was romanticistic. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

It must be as hard to think up anything new in that kind as in romanticistic fiction, which circus-acting otherwise largely resembles. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

It was romantic as Shakespeare himself was romantic, in an elder sense of the word, and not romanticistic as Dumas was romanticistic. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Whether this figure is the fancy of the sorrowing husband or the caprice of the defunct herself, who wished to be shown to after-time as she hoped she looked in the past, I do not know; but I had the same difficulty with it as I had with that father and son; it was romanticistic. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

But here the fact wanted the basis of simplicity so strong in the other scene; in the mixture of the real and the ideal the group was romanticistic. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

He preached a crusade against romanticism, and fought a long fight with it, only to realize at last that he was himself too romanticistic to succeed against it, and heroically to own his defeat. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Jacob is sort of a romanticist. hes [waxed] [poetry], [swoons] ladies with song, and dance the into his arms. ❋ Theamazinggeek (2019)

A girl is discussing a [romance novel] she read with a friend. "He took her hand and pulled her close and dipped her as they danced. Then, he held her to him and leaned close before her ex cut between them. He ruined [the kiss] that would have opened her eyes!" "Oh, Julie. You are such a [romanticist]." ❋ Katey Diddly Do (2015)

[I am] a [Romanticist] [person] ❋ Dante Nailo (2014)

Youre eyes are like deep [vernal] [pool] during the [vernal equinox] ❋ Silas Dagwood (2005)

[Man] [that guy] is [such a] fabioesque-existential-romanticist! ❋ Silas Dagwood (2005)