21.   For a giddy few months the country flirted with romantic notions.

22.   Fortunately for him, he overcame the romantic notions of his youth and now has a real job.

23.   He had romantic notions of the West, spurred by his frequent visits to relatives in the Panhandle.

24.   He long ago realized that tough standards are at war with romantic notions of creativity and the mystique of the child.

25.   He was also a realist who had little patience for romantic notions.

26.   I had this romantic notion of what it would be like to be my own boss.

27.   I think because we are sports people and we are agents, we held out sort of a romantic notion of football being more of an opportunity for us.

28.   In fact, both men harbor romantic notions about Valerie -- Perone as a sexual predator and Vesey as an over-the-hill knight who can find redemption by saving her.

29.   More academic thinkers dismiss such theories as simply romantic notions.