The subjects are frequently tender or sad, sometimes morbid -- in short, Byronic. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
He seemed a kind of Byronic hero to me, even more in the movie than the book. From Wordnik.com. [An Entirely Informal Conversation about Howl's Moving Castle] Reference
Significantly it was "Byronic", some 10 years before Byron actually adopted it himself. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review] Reference
John W. Nowak's Rescue Rangers stories, mainly about Gadget Hackwrench and her "Byronic" sister Widget, are particularly good!. From Wordnik.com. [Good Fanfic?] Reference
"Byronic," fully knowing that Dylan named one of his sons Byron. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
He is also deemed "Byronic," because, one assumes, of his faint resemblance to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
No matter what the raw material of his narrative poems may be, they become uniformly "Byronic" as he writes them down. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
Your continued presence simply fuels the flames you ignited when you threatened "Byronic" with legal action some 18 months ago. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
But his wooing was legendary and Byronic in style. From Wordnik.com. [2003-06-23 : *the man with the dancing eyes*] Reference
Rather to the general surprise, the Byronic lounger, Paul. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
In the van of the recoil against Byronic morals one finds Crabbe. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Jarring Byronic notes interrupt the flow of his Horatian humours. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
Thus, ever in perplexity, I must abjure the theory of Byronic merit. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Honest to goodness villains and Byronic heroes that seduce and kill. From Wordnik.com. [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference
A man of genius, he became one of the mythic figures of a Byronic age. From Wordnik.com. [Playing Liszt] Reference
Now her attention was claimed by the young Byronic-looking Mr. Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [Dearly Beloved]
Perhaps there was something almost Byronic about his silence and his gloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Enthusiasts may, according to their tastes, laud the poet of Byronic worldliness or of. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
I may say, if you look at his picture, he is incredibly handsome in a Byronic sort of way. From Wordnik.com. [Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy] Reference
In her novels of the first period, George Sand takes her Byronic revenge upon M. Dudevant. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
Chatteris, spouting his own poems, and filled with quite a Byronic afflatus as he thought. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
The gentleman who wanted Mars was made a Mars of; he who aped Byron received a Byronic attitude. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Byronic influence had time to reach America, Longfellow took up the cudgels against the evil poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Chernow wisely doesn't exhibit Burr in his full Byronic/sardonic weirdness until Hamilton's safely buried. From Wordnik.com. [ALEXANDER THE GREAT] Reference
I could remember him smoldering embarrassingly in Byronic parts and was terribly glad he was too old for that now. From Wordnik.com. [Farthing] Reference
If a man wanted Mars in his face, he put in Mars: he gave a Byronic turn and attitude to those who aimed at Byron. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
Rolling Stones -- and not just the Byronic visage of Wintour's "Keith Richards," creative director Grace Coddington. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened to Anna Wintour's October Issue?] Reference
The fact that Lola always wore a Byronic collar helped the theory, held by many, that she was a daughter of the poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
Marlowe and Goethe had used in 'Faust,' his real power is largely thwarted by the customary Byronic mystery and swagger. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
For all its Byronic ambition, though, the technology of asteroid nudging is not that much more astounding than many others. From Wordnik.com. [The Traditions Of Titans] Reference
There was a large courtyard, and a big, dark, Byronic-looking dragoman came round and proposed a barbaric dance to our people. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
An exquisite young man, who had been introduced as Bernardo, and who was a Byronic, very handsome fellow, took issue with her. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Delft Blue]
He was what might be called a literary fop, and was much given to the production of highly-wrought, Byronic poems and sketches. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference
Campbell tipped back his head and laughed, displaying a manly jaw — an agreeable counterbalance to the Byronic curls he affected. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
For this older Ross Worthington had discarded Italian military capes and Byronic collars and flowing ties for more conventional attire. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
She lived among her fellow-creatures, but not of them, -- and that in a sense far more comfortable than Byronic misanthropy could imagine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
He gathered his dark garments around him and stepped into the dim light, looking for all the world like some Byronic version of a vampire. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
While it's hard to buy that anyone is good enough for Candice Bergen, Larroquette's white, Byronic mane stands as good a chance as anyone. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Miley: The Boston Legal Cocktail: A "Strange Mix" of Sex, Comedy, and Politics] Reference
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