THE overly romantic faith in a new economy has already done plenty of damage.

Raphael finds the novel to be "overly romantic" and the conclusion melodramatic.

First there was the melting pot, but that seemed overly romantic.

"Well, no one ever accused people from the Second Immortality period of being overly romantic!"

No doubt this is an overly romantic picture I have carried over from childhood.

I can be faulted for being overly romantic, I suppose.

Box was unhappy with Sabatini's script, which he considered historically inaccurate and overly romantic.

At the same time I knew I was being overly romantic, that the better advice would probably be to move on.

And the stories tend toward the overly romantic, a complaint often leveled at many of the published sequels.

It pays not to be overly romantic about the nature of any broad opposition, no matter how encouraging it is overall.