"It is, mercifully, an anti-romantic view of these killers ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Knowlege and homicide ...] Reference

And that's very odd, considering that Hardy was in some very strong sense kind of anti-romantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Leavitt Does the Math] Reference

I'm telling you, it makes me feel as if we really are celebrating the day properly, hurt, anger and anti-romantic feelings and all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Er....] Reference

But he also includes the voice of an anti-romantic, who dismisses it all as a pose, and the artist's drawings of Dream corroborate Mervyn's suspicions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture] Reference

Whether you're truly an anti-romantic or just having a bad day, the good news is that you don't have to sulk and scowl in your filthy apartment this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

The trouble is that, despite her bracingly anti-romantic view of the countryside, France is rather less disciplined when it comes to the subject of romance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hill Farm by Miranda France – review] Reference

After brainstorming with his Webmaster and wife, Wellington came up with a concept to showcase the anti-romantic vampires of his newest book Thirteen Bullets.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2007] Reference

Sri Aurobindo, in one of his letters on Poetry expresses the hope that the prevailing anti-romantic age would pass by when his poems will again be appreciated.    From Wordnik.com.  [All these talk of post-metaphysical is rubbish] Reference

This is an anti-romantic film, similar in spirit to something like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie City News] Reference

The answer is to make a film that is anti-romantic and only a semi-comedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Europe, still represented everything that is most anti-mediaeval and anti-romantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Ikra. 8 p.m. Defekty Rechi, Project AK and Pavel Fakhrutdinov's Sotovarishchi in an anti-romantic concert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moscow Times] Reference

He quotes Aristotle's anti-romantic saying that "most men would rather live in a disorderly than in a sober manner.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Letters] Reference

It will not do, of course, to lay too much stress on Thackeray, whose profession was satire and whose temper purely anti-romantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

This anti-romantic love song featured sensitive and intelligent lyrics and is equal to just about anything written during the sixties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

Even Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hood, representatives in their separate spheres of anti-romantic tendencies, made occasional forays into the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

He was the great anti-romantic, the anti-sentimentalist, his innovations cinematic, freeform and smart - the lovely melodies sneak up on you.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

Criterion, 'the policy of this paper ... is strongly reactionary and anti-romantic,' he must be speaking for what he would like the policy to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Review of Books] Reference

Nor must it be forgotten that they were contemporaries of the realistic, anti-romantic literary movement, a movement which gave them nothing but friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Impressionists (1860-1900)] Reference

Away We Go, which looks like the perfect tonic director Sam Mendes needed after wading through the two hours of soul-crushing anti-romantic venom coursing through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

But perhaps the show's best-known number, "Sing Me Not a Ballad," was reserved for the Duke's worldly wise and deliberately anti-romantic Duchess, portrayed by Victoria Clark.    From Wordnik.com.  [KSL / U.S. / National] Reference

Gone Hollywood | Wednesday, October 1, 2008 has been known for espousing anti-romantic sentiment in the past - but now, the "Body of Lies" star is singing a new tune about love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gone Hollywood] Reference

She's an anti-romantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Lullaby]