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anti-romantic
[ an-tee-roh-man-tik, an-tahy- ]
adjective
- not involving love or romance:
One way to ignore Valentine's Day is to do something on the anti-romantic end of the spectrum and watch some horror movies with other single friends.
- characterized by or portraying a view of love and relationships that is practical rather than idealized, and often transactional or circumstantial:
The anti-romantic comedy-drama espouses a frank and scathing view of sexual relations.
It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults.
His anti-romantic poetry is a reaction to the real and immediate experience of war, depicted in all its scarring reality.
- Sometimes anti-Romantic. in a style that is unlike or in opposition to the romantic style in music, art, literature, etc.:
The composer鈥檚 works incorporate experimentalism in a way that is decidedly anti-romantic.
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of anti-romantic1
Example Sentences
For now, they conspire to rule over a fractious post-revolutionary France, and also to transform this lavish palatial drama and sinewy war epic into a veritable anti-romantic comedy.
鈥淚t鈥檚 usually seen as an object of curiosity. It鈥檚 depicted as anti-romantic love.鈥
Priscilla Gilman is a former professor of English literature at Yale and Vassar, and the author of 鈥淭he Anti-Romantic Child,鈥 a memoir that is in part about raising a son with a disorder that is sometimes linked to Asperger鈥檚.
Gilman鈥檚 astute and loving account of Benjamin鈥檚 upbringing, 鈥淭he Anti-Romantic Child,鈥 came out in 2011.
鈥楳odern Romance鈥 Albert Brooks directs and stars as a neurotic Hollywood film editor in this cringe-inducing 1981 anti-romantic comedy.
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