Everything possible has been done to destroy this romantic conception.

But I have a less romantic conception than when I started.

The Romantic conception started there as an elegant and amusing fashion for the leisured classes.

One may say, of course, that Marcel is shocked simply because he has a foolish, a foolishly romantic conception of what a writer should look like.

Even if Bates's reading strikes one as strained, the poem marks a departure from Romantic and Victorian conceptions of death.

Hustle, imagination, a willingness to indulge a degree of hedonism and a determination to fulfill a romantic conception of itself have helped Dubai prosper.

The innovation right from the start was to oppose the purely formal and romantic conceptions of American skyscrapers (with their pyramidal forms and needle-like terminations).

And Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen" reflects the Romantic conception of Gypsy exoticism.

Clausewitz espoused a romantic conception of warfare, though he also had at least one foot planted firmly in the more rationalist ideas of the European Enlightenment.

During the 19th century, the Romantic conception of a European "Dark Age" gave much more prominence to the Flat Earth model than it ever possessed historically.