"When people are so aware of their motives, it's hard to have romantic illusions," he said.

We're trying to find a way to sustain romantic illusions.

These late works are considered the most artful criticism of romantic illusion in her career.

It will destroy all the symbols and romantic illusions built up by voters.

But he'd said he didn't want her in terms that left no room for romantic illusions.

I've no romantic illusions about the simple life and the noble savage.

He wants to possess her, along with his romantic illusions about the Gypsy world.

But concentrating on the true politics of smoking will help us to see them for what they are: romantic illusions.

One romantic illusion after another shattered into slivers on the cold road.

Going wild was an equal if more romantic illusion.