| Jennifer Lopez in the lead role tones down her forthright sexuality to play the part for flowers and romance rather than raunch. |
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| There is a long history of romance blossoming in the white heat of the Olympic Winter Games. |
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| A stay in the renovated stables, just off the main building, completes the Wildean-era rustic romance. |
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| The film also beautifully realizes the unusual, emotionally charged, and heartbreaking romance between Winchell and Addams. |
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| There's another great newspaper headline in there about how an electrical repair sparked romance for the lovelorn star. |
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| There is no romance involved, still the affection and love for a friend is implied and understood. |
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| Lighthouses, for instance, have a certain romance about them, and Dutch windmills are considered highly picturesque. |
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| Listening to the dialogue between the wind and the windmill produced a feeling of old fashioned romance. |
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| My mom was reading a romance novel in the kitchen when I arrived home, promptly air-kissed me and asked how my work was. |
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| We're trying to recapture the romance of flight as it was in the 1920s or 30s, when flight used to be terribly exciting. |
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| The plot construction is a bit convoluted, but at the core it is the unlikely romance between the ageing Lothario and the formidable divorcee. |
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| This first article addresses how to recapture the romance of the Titanic era. |
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| This intriguing and maddening novel is a curious amalgam of detective mystery, period romance, and fictional memoir. |
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| Frasier invites her home for drinks with hopes of kindling a romance, but is miffed when Martin captures her attention instead. |
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| Ultimately, this romance becomes a narrative strategy for ruminating on creation and offering an alternate genesis myth. |
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| Just remember to book your stay well in advance to avoid disappointment, as it is busy year round in this city of royal romance. |
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| Folk and country, romance and ruefulness, innocence and experience are all conjoined in their bewitching vocal harmonies. |
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| Yeah, yeah, I mean our couple of advisors told us many stories of romance in the department. |
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| Since when are you a great believer in true love and all that romance novel rubbish? |
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| You infuse energy and romance in long-standing relationships and rejuvenate them. |
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| After years of indoctrination by sappy romance stories and fairy tales, girls want to be swept off their feet by a knight in shining armor. |
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| When we met we had both already been married and we had a whirlwind romance of just six weeks before tying the knot. |
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| The blossoming romance made me ill, a lot of the blue screen work left me unimpressed. |
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| Maturin's version of the Shakespearian romance plot encodes family secrets. |
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| The wrought-iron entrance gates and meandering drive reflect the sense of romance and grandeur that characterized the Roaring Twenties. |
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| It was a whirlwind romance and eight weeks later on May 9, 1959, they were married at Macclesfield register office. |
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| The couple, both in their early 60s, began a relationship nine months ago after rekindling an old romance. |
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| Only the most inept of dramatists could deliver a romance so completely lacking in depth and subtlety. |
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| Why, without these all-important ingredients there was no romance, she insisted. |
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| This is Arthurian epic at its best-filled with romance, adventure, authentic Dark Ages detail, and wonderfully human people. |
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| You can feel the romance, you can hear the waiters shout impatiently in their own language and you can smell the sweet aromas of Italian fare. |
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| The variations for piano and orchestra, on a romance from Morlacci's opera Tebaldo e Isolina, were destined for the court at Parma. |
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| In an attempt to calm Usher, his friend pulled from the bookcase a second rate medieval romance and began to read aloud. |
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| The sky was clear and filled with stars and the fragrance of the white roses drifted through the air, filling the night with mystery and romance. |
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| Admittedly, the cigarette helped create an aura of mystery and romance even in the very early years of film. |
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| On one hand, as Theios observed, Western artists depict the myth and romance of the West and seldom its harsh truths. |
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| Oh, and there is the fact that I no longer travel the world attending academic conferences in search of adventure and romance. |
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| Much more popular are genres such as crime and adventure, romance, horror, and science fiction. |
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| It would be so simple if I wrote crime fiction, or romance, or if I were a reporter. |
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| I don't particularly care what subject it is, it could be romance, horror, adventure, fantasy etc. |
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| Thus, if we are to associate Hawthorne's explanation of sympathy with any genre, it should not be with either romance or sentimental fiction. |
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| There must have been pages upon pages of typewriter paper filled with romance, horror, fantasy and tales of the strange. |
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| Is humour considered so base as to rank only among banal genres like romance and horror? |
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| Historical fiction varies from campy romance to character studies with imaginative insights more exact than fact. |
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| And if anyone wants to read a really good romance with some mystery, check out Scarab by Penning Fantasy. |
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| The author interjects that it would be easy to invent some pre-story reason if the book were a romance. |
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| The play's strength derives from its presentation of both an affair and a workplace romance, each with their different dynamics. |
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| After a whirlwind romance, they are married and work very hard to conceive a kid. |
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| It's the latest shocker in a whirlwind romance that has been kind of hard to keep up with. |
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| He tells his parents it's just a summer romance, but he's having so much fun that he's thinking about blowing off his career for a year or so. |
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| The following year, she realised it was more than a holiday romance and came back to stay. |
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| A lovestruck South African and a Rochdale bachelor have married after a whirlwind romance over the internet. |
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| Each one was dreading that the other might say it was just a holiday romance and that they wanted to finish it. |
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| It is meant to act as a check on the problematic impulses of romance and sentimentalism. |
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| Personals is an online oasis for single people seeking dates, romance, and lifelong partners. |
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| And when it comes to romance, the Czechs certainly have no qualms about public displays of affection! |
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| In a survey earlier this year, romance blossomed for nearly two-thirds of employees within the British workplace. |
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| Rather than an outlaw passion lurking on the outskirts of marriage, romance became the gatekeeper of marriage. |
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| He and Travis never talked about feelings or about intimate things like romance. |
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| The historic, red brick building was a delight in itself and the interior, especially downstairs, had a feeling of intimacy and romance. |
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| In her diary, Welch hopes for dating, romance, and marriage, but these events never occur. |
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| The cattle stations of Australia's far north were big business and there was no longer a place for sentiment and romance. |
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| We'd prefer something with a little more class, a touch of sentiment and romance perhaps, and first-rate production values. |
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| Both men and women consider romance and passion far less important than support and caring. |
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| Keep romance alive. Go on regular, standing dates, even it they are on Tuesday nights. |
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| That, combined with the lights of the city and French conversation, clarified why Paris was always associated with romance. |
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| That maybe all well and good for you, Dex, but love and romance don't pay the bills. |
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| Even though we married, it was more about convenience, teamwork, cooperation, etc. than love or romance. |
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| She didn't know romance or love till she met Lance, he changed her life, made her more human. |
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| Jemmey had spent years wandering from village to village in search of romance. |
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| The feeling of romance and love quickly fled from her body, so she was now left with a cold, alone feeling. |
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| The characters get to know each other with no assurance that a romance will follow. |
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| Also, there's a point where a character says love and romance are just things created to sell products. |
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| The promotional materials presented the film strictly as a romance with no hint of its political overtones. |
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| Romeo and Juliet is the archetype of literary romance and as a result, this theme has appeared in countless songs. |
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| It tries desperately to be a comedy, a romance, a drama, and a musical all rolled into one. |
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| It does need, rather urgently, actors who can pull off action, romance and comedy with equal aplomb. |
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| There was a certain romance in crime when we felt that the likes of Michael Corleone were behind it all. |
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| Luck has very little to do with romance, other than to maintain the illusion that we are helpless pawns in the game of love. |
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| A more light-minded woman than Anna Reynolds might have swooned at the romance of this troubled courtship. |
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| Charlotte loved stories of romance and adventure, there had been so little romance or adventure in her life. |
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| Walpole inaugurated the tradition in the hope that the lifelike solidity of realism might be reconciled with the imaginative range of romance. |
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| The romance novel lay on Eva's boudoir dresser, open and ragged from her wear-and-tear for the last week and a half. |
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| The romance was simmering for two years, Daniel revealed, and despite his anxiety to tell everyone, he kept the lid on his newfound love. |
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| Slowly the colours of the day faded and the dark purple of the night crept in, with its eerie sense of romance and evil to it. |
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| Having said that, there is a certain romance in listening to the names of far-away places reverberate off the walls of that magnificent place. |
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| It was more along the lines of a very uncertain, wobbly romance that might fall apart at any second. |
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| I guess now enough time has passed for you to hear all about my Roskilde romance. |
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| Music, like a small act of tenderness, aids romance and is certainly used in one way or another by most of us. |
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| What makes instant messaging different to the epistolary romance is the question of temporality. |
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| This latest backward glance is more lonely lunchtime housewife than supper-club romance or hell-of-a-day blues. |
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| Now the wheel is turning towards romance and intrigue and back-stabbing in other settings, with game shows, suspense and youth shows for variety. |
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| The couple announced their romance in Italy earlier this month, prompting sceptics to question the validity of the match. |
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| A short scene of interracial romance between two characters in one of the flashbacks was surprising, too. |
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| The story is crammed full of drama, awkward teen romance, and more than a little comedy. |
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| Rather it's the incoherent screenplay, direction which jerks from one improbable setting to another and lets itself wander off into teen romance. |
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| Yet he is entranced by the story of his antecedents, revelling in the romance of their relationships. |
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| If team sports and ball games are not your thing, the romance of swords, and bows and arrows may appeal. |
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| That, I told myself, is only the stuff you read about in cheap, tawdry romance novels. |
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| In our puritanical world, where marriages were arranged, romance was off limits. |
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| Drawing on Asian traditions that date back centuries, its spa retreats blend romance and serenity with exotic sensuality. |
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| It was the usual accidental pregnancy, and we had the usual high school romance. |
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| Also, since you've been called the queen of fantasy romance, i could use any pointers you have! |
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| Form and content have been beautifully woven into a tapestry of romance, speaking for the here and now. |
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| At the moment, Elaine was sitting on her bed eating animal crackers and reading a romance novel. |
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| The focus of almost the entire chapter is on adolescent childbearing, a topic that I consider somewhat tangential to romance. |
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| She resists his advances for a while, but soon succumbs, and the two begin a torrid and wind-swept romance that carries on throughout the war. |
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| Meanwhile, Sportmax went for 1970s romance with long hippie skirts in madras. |
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| Valentine displays have been put together by staff with a sense of romance. |
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| Do you enjoy watching soap operas on tv, or reading good fiction or romance novels? |
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| They take the void for granted and don't expect the day when it will fill up with romance, or children, or whatever. |
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| Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing? |
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| Yet lumpish Jane's fairytale romance is left stranded on the roadside by the self-centered pragmatism of robbers on the run. |
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| The couple enjoyed a whirlwind romance after meeting each other in a Los Angeles hotel lobby in February. |
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| He then bought her a Ferrari and, after a whirlwind five-month romance, he jetted her off to Las Vegas to marry in a secret ceremony. |
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| Getting a job working in a lumberyard, he then starts a sweet romance with a woman he meets, named Vickie. |
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| Barry's daughter, Sinead, becomes a traffic warden and has a whirlwind romance with a man Barry hates. |
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| It was such a idyllic setting, she could imagine herself having a whirlwind romance of sorts in Scotland. |
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| This year's cabaret is a bitter-sweet affair, revolving around songs of romance on the run and love from afar. |
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| I have about as much finesse when it comes to romance as a lumberjack has when cutting down a tree. |
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| In only one romance is the original language a Celtic language, and that is rather late in the schema of this material. |
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| Each of us is drawn to a genre, be it horror, comedy or romance. |
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| What happens when you combine two beautiful people, a complicated romance, and unforgettable ballads? |
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| He embraces asymmetry, is besotted by rhinestones, and swoons over the promise of romance hidden in dark shadows. |
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| Liesl Schillinger calls for the return of big-screen romance and wit to enliven the season. |
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| The children teased my parents about their budding romance and my parents, in turn, fell in love with their tiny wards. |
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| Bob's conducting a three-year internet romance with a girl he's never met. |
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| Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child. |
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| The fairy tale romance has come to an abrupt and totally unexpected end. |
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| This stood in contrast to the chaste 19th century, when marriage, rather than romance, was the main topic of interest. |
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| Common wisdom has long held that if you romance a cheater he or she will one day cheat on you. |
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| Bunting even botches an attempt by his wife to reconcile, abstracting himself from the romance of the moment in pursuit of a dry, theoretical point. |
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| While both Weiner and Harbison focus on friends, they still follow the formula that every chick lit book must include a romance. |
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| Neither star has spoken to confirm whether the friendship has blossomed into a romance, but we bet plenty of males are well jel to be waking up to the news. |
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| Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude. |
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| The ancient epic had its counterpart in athletic contests just as the medieval romance had its counterpart in jousts and tournaments between knights. |
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| Here was a formidable antiquarian and linguist, fluent in classical and romance languages, as well as Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Aramaic, Anglo-Saxon, and a half dozen others. |
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| Travelling by train has always been associated with romance and adventure, and one of the best ways to see the east coast of the States is by doing just that. |
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| In 2006 they coproduced a series of romance novels with NASCAR to try and reach male readers. |
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| He met the wonderful Rosie and, after a whirlwind romance, they married. |
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| It was a whirlwind romance little approved of by her family. |
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| We must find some alternative to the most insular tendencies of ethnic social clubs, but not white-bread homogeneity or the romance of going it alone. |
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| The novel is the heartbreaking story of a doomed romance between a young cavalry lieutenant and a crippled girl. |
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| What follows is culture shock, heartache, romance, rejection and even a Richard Gere-inspired twist. |
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| The reenactments don't always work so smoothly, but the tales of enduring romance and the subjects' senses of humour will win you over, without a doubt. |
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| Jan looked forward to recapturing the romance of their early days. |
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| In an unlikely romance that kindles between two single New Yorkers at an airport, they cross paths for a long while till they have the courage to finally make a connection. |
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| After all, reading would be pretty boring if romance novels got all the dashing rogues. |
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| Then, defying all logic, it somehow blossomed into an amazing, fruitful romance. |
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| Theirs is a fairy-tale romance, with her knowing from the beginning that they are fated to be together, and him coming to her rescue like a knight in shining armor. |
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| Love and romance enhance and rejuvenate a personal relationship. |
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| Most affecting is his romance with a cute, downbeat girl inmate named Andrea. |
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| The romance of elan energized the volunteers who flocked to the colors in the early years of the struggle. |
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| Far from the bucolic paradise of popular myth, with lowing herds winding slowly o'er the lea, modern farms have as much romance as a widget factory. |
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| They exude strength, but the romance and sensuality of fashion are not lost. |
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| There are romance stories, historical stories and adventures. |
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| Even a riggish French noblewoman could hardly throw a glamour of romance over so prosaic an interest as the Franco-American trade in fish-oil and salt cod. |
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| More than that, theirs is a great love story, an exquisitely painful romance of two self-proclaimed soulmates who can't live together yet can't live apart. |
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| Dublin jewellers are experiencing a drop in engagement ring sales, as romance pays the price for Luas roadworks and a weakening economy, according to the city's jewellers. |
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| Women's simultaneous desire for love and romance and anxiety about the exigencies of marriage lent them a peculiar potency in courtship negotiations. |
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| A woman needs excitement, romance, or at least a good time in bed. |
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| There was no sense in destroying their idealized visions of romance. |
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| But real life is not a romantic fairy tale and only you can create an environment that is conducive to romance, and bring out the lover in your spouse. |
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| Apparently, Leo recently spent some time in Taiwan shooting a big new movie, and while he was there, he started up a whirlwind romance with a lucky local. |
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| Those who despise it either expect it to be a romance or a baseball movie. |
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| The film is billed as a romance, but the two travellers spend too long exchanging pleasantries and being nice to each other to get any sparks going. |
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| I am a master of romance and I know a lot of secrets from my anime club. |
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| There's a touch of romance about the sea, given that seafaring created the economies and history of the region before the skies took over as the main means of transport. |
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| Turner was unavoidably saturated in the history and romance of the sea. |
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| The continuing schizophrenia of Partition dictates our collective romance with the border, and the different avatars it assumes within the public sphere. |
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| The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. |
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| I find most romcoms intolerable, as they tend to be too heavy on the romance, which is a distinct turnoff, but this had an admirable lack of sentiment. |
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| And so begins a tale of romance between the lowest of the low and a rich politician who must learn to love this diamond in the rough as she truly is. |
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| Although William Beckford wrote a Gothick romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of epic prodigality would arrest attention had he not written a single line. |
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| A loggerhead turtle, which has been carefully nursed back to health in a leading aquarium, yesterday took off for Spain where she may soon find romance. |
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| It doesn't cater to the lowbrow philosophy that romance readers are all about intoxicating escapisms and lookisms and that they will shriek if someone over thirty gets naked. |
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| The pair met in 2001 and embarked on a romance of glitz and glamour that lasted over a decade. |
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| In Billy Wilder's aching, razor-sharp urban romance, Jack Lemmon works for a massive insurance company and his apartment has become a love nest for adulterous executives. |
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| Using a highly scientific personality test, the boffins behind this genius idea will match you up with one of six potential mates who will then romance you via email. |
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| An almost too perfect example of this anti-visual romance plot is that the first affectionate encounter between Lucy and Paul occurs when she breaks his precious lunettes. |
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| He ask the kindly saleslady to select some ten books that has romance as a subject, the lady gladly helped him and picked up some of the thickest books he had ever bought. |
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| To call the Canadian publisher harlequin a monopoly in the romance genre might be an overstatement, but not by much. |
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| The 50-year-old graying stallion announced that he and his 32-year-old Italian showgirl have called their fairytale romance quits. |
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| This is where the sporadic and hectic handling of the romance in the movies fails. |
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| The romance began late at night, with a glass of red wine and an episode of The situation room. |
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| The media-shy couple, who were fiercely tight-lipped about their year-long romance, broke the news they were expecting a baby shortly before they wed. |
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| Yet Diana, with its soporific romance and awful dialogue, is a colossal bore. |
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| The play bounces from scheming romance to high-camp comedy, leaving the audience torn between giggling and nail-biting over this complicated love hexagon. |
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| The business goes from strength to strength and Jordan jettisons his wife Teresa to romance blonde bombshell Naomi Lapaglia. |
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| Continuing their romance, Kimye took their relationship show over to Canada, where Kim, 31, was hawking her new jewellery line. |
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| Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance. |
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| In December 2005, Bruno announced that he was to become a father for the fourth time since finding new romance with old friend Yvonne Clydesdale. |
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| Churchill found himself seated beside Clementine, and they soon began a lifelong romance. |
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| Georgette Heyer created the historical romance genre, and also wrote detective fiction. |
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| In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed four major plays, including The Tempest. |
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| Within this boy-meets-girl romance lie some big questions about the theory of evolution and the existence of God. |
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| When the sleuthing business or a stakeout is at a lull, private investigator Savannah Reid passes the time reading steamy romance novels. |
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| Until Romeo and Juliet, for example, romance had not been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. |
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| There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism. |
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| Their thematic reach was beginning to expand as they embraced deeper aspects of romance and philosophy. |
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| With two people of their personalities and in their position, romance was bound to flourish. |
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| Gillespie finds true romance in reasoning, and he was intrigued. |
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| Hardy published Two on a Tower in 1882, a romance story set in the world of astronomy. |
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| Shelley emphasises domesticity, romance, family, sympathy, and compassion in the lives of her subjects. |
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| Is there a future for, er, Caskett? Or is this just a November sweeps romance? |
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| In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom she eventually married. |
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| Poems like these both drew inspiration from and helped to inflame the craze for Gothic romance. |
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| Before then, romance had not even been viewed as a worthy topic for tragedy. |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream is a witty mixture of romance, fairy magic, and comic lowlife scenes. |
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| At each remove, Romeo's separateness doubles an Ovidian romance paradigm, while drawing Juliet away into a shared removedness. |
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| However, no lovers in romance ever cemented a more instantaneous friendship. |
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| A rousing Spartacus Suite from Khachaturian was loud enough to blow away any cobwebs and yet still captured the romance of the adagio. |
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| In Arthurian romance, a number of explanations are given for Arthur's possession of Excalibur. |
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| It should be noted, too, that there is a Kamaalot featured as the home of Perceval's mother in the romance Perlesvaus. |
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| But Ben insists romance in the house is not on the cards for 'eternal bachelor' Jon. |
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| This designation includes the crime novels, spy novel, historical romance, fantasy, graphic novel, and science fiction. |
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| Artily shot in black and white, this low budget indie movie has just enough wit, charm and touching romance to entertain. |
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| Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches. |
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| Le Guin is a grand far-fetcher or transumer of the true tradition of romance we call literary fantasy. |
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| As shotgun weddings go, this one's got more than its fair share of true romance. |
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| This film is a romance, suspense and thriller all rolled into one. A thrillmance! |
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| His son she viewed as one of the thickwitted giants meant to be food for the heroism of good knights of romance. |
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| All these situations communicate a scenical animation to the wild romance, if treated dramatically. |
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| I am interested in IAL's based on romance languages. I know of Interlingua, Romanova, and Nova Lingua Franca. |
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| Her dreams of romance are always stymied by her shrewishly over-protective divorced mother. |
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| He's reminisced on Facebook, Twitter, and foursquare about their romance. |
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| In 1949, Pilcher's first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills and Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. |
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| The Welsh romance Peredur had no Grail per se, presenting the hero instead with a platter containing his kinsman's bloody, severed head. |
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| He gave off an aura not of romance or woolly artisanality but rather of canny commercial nous. |
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| Arthur himself played a minor role in some of these works, following in the medieval romance tradition. |
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| In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays, including The Tempest. |
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| Nevertheless, he soon closed it and left town, probably because of a failed romance. |
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| The Alexander romance, a fabulous account of Alexander the Great's conquests, was especially influential in this regard. |
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| They became associated with medieval romance traditions of fairies and particularly with the idea of a Fairy Queen. |
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| Despite being the first romance language to evolve from Vulgar Latin, Sardinian does not fit well at all into this sort of division. |
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| It has become an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with many variations. |
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| The two actors had a very realistic on-screen romance, but in reality they couldn't stand each other. |
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| Medieval romance in particular plays with this process of turning myth into literature. |
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| As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names. |
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| These stories offer drama, philosophy, romance, tragedy, fantasy and humour, and were created by various narrators over time. |
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| He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance. |
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| Cameron framed the romance with the elderly Rose to make the intervening years palpable and poignant. |
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| Set in the mid 1940s, SNOW APPLES tells of a girl's determination to pursue a forbidden romance against the wishes of her watchful mother. |
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| Various archaeologists have commented positively on the beauty and romance of the Castlerigg ring and its natural environment. |
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| These were attempts to revive the genre of medieval romance, and written in imitation of medieval prose. |
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| Major British writers such as Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy were influenced by the romance genre tradition of the novel. |
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| I have some respect for the views of the finishippers, as they realize that a romance would ruin the show, so they'll put it off till the end. |
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| It smelled of romance, yet the preface stated that it should most certainly be read as a true private history. |
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| To secure lasting, blissful love from a nascent romance, a love pillow can cast a powerful, binding spell. |
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| The Amadis eventually became the archetypical romance, in contrast with the modern novel which began to be developed in the 17th century. |
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| Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but with ironic, satiric or burlesque intent. |
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| In her short stories, science fiction and romance intermingle. |
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| However, in the 17th century, critics saw the romance as of epic length and the novel as its short rival. |
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| Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. |
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| The word 'romance' with the modern sense of romance novel or love affair has the same origin. |
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| In the late 18th century, Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto created the Gothic fiction genre, that combines elements of horror and romance. |
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| Tchaikovsky may be well known, but he has been treated with such reverence that much of what we know is a combination of romance and pure fantasy. |
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| In 2006, Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biographical film of Potter's life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne. |
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| The Crusades provided an enormous amount of source material, stories of heroism and interest that underpinned growth in medieval literature, romance and philosophy. |
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| Since it is such an obvious subject of the play, several scholars have explored the language and historical context behind the romance of the play. |
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| Because alcohol is so popular, morning-after experiences and walks of shame are pretty common for many students. Almost everyone is looking for romance in some capacity. |
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| This Valentine's weekend, Wichita Grand Opera is offering not just one but two chances to find romance, with two performances of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow at 7pm Feb. |
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| A 13th century verse romance exists in Czech, based on the German Tristan poems by Gottfried von Strassburg, Heinrich von Freiberg and Eilhart von Oberge. |
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| Its first editor, Sir Walter Scott, provided a sixty line ending to the story, which has been printed with the romance in every subsequent edition. |
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| A fast paced fictional story about romance, self-esteem, and living with a learning difference through the eyes of Katie, a junior high school student. |
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| The Gothic fiction genre combines elements of horror and romance. |
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| The Central Board of Film Certification has refused to certify Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer 'Haraamkhor' objecting to its theme which deals with a student-teacher romance. |
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| Based in San Francisco, Eileen West designs sleepwear, dresses and quality products for the home with her signature balance of romance, beauty and comfort. |
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| Kristen said that for the part 1 of the Twilight series, the romance was expected to be sweet as it was a journey of self-discovery for her as a vampire. |
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| Teens will find this an involving story of romance and self-realization. |
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| Some reviewers, though, notably John Wilson Croker for the Quarterly Review, expressed reservations about the propriety of mixing history and romance. |
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| In May, it was reported that Corby has rekindled her romance with Panangian, whom she met in jail in Kuta while he was serving time on minor drug offences. |
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| A doomed romance set against the backdrop of 1916 Ireland's struggles against the British, it is loosely based on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. |
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| Nevertheless, large subgenres of the field of fantasy have sprung from the romance genre, but indirectly, through their writers' imitation of William Morris. |
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| Many of his works are inspired by Puritan New England, combining historical romance loaded with symbolism and deep psychological themes, bordering on surrealism. |
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| Bollywood fans are in for a treat with this Rohit Shetty film, which also stars SRK, Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, and is filled with action, romance, drama and comedy. |
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| The artistic movement no longer placed an emphasis on politics and religion, focusing instead on lighter themes such as romance, celebration, and appreciation of nature. |
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| At the time of the Renaissance romance continued to be popular. |
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| Romance or chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. |
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| Let's combine the action and the romance and make a romaction story. |
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| At the same time he was a romantic and was influenced by gothic romance. |
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| The very word romanticism is connected to the idea of romance, and the romance genre experienced a revival, at the end of the 18th century, with gothic fiction. |
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| Under the guidelines being looked at, the star-crossed lovers may have to seal their romance with a brief peck on the cheek rather than a full-on lip-lock. |
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| Hawthorne defined a romance as being radically different from a novel by not being concerned with the possible or probable course of ordinary experience. |
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| The following text is from Alexanders saga, an Alexander romance. |
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| Tennyson had reworked the romance tales of Arthur to suit and comment upon the issues of his day, and the same is often the case with modern treatments too. |
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| Among his perspectives are the fruit of usury, Samson Sybariticus, revolution and romance, killing no murder, uxorious usurers, and blind man's bluff. |
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| Whether you are cutting a rug in the minuet, swinging and swaying with Sammy Kave, or just getting down and boogieing, dancing is an invitation to fun and romance. |
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| Romance or chivalric romance is a type of narrative in prose or verse popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. |
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| Annie Get Your Gun tells the story of Buffalo Bill's Wild West female sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her romance with fellow gunslinger Frank Butler. |
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| People generally find it difficult to relate to love-shys and incels and wrongly assume we could obtain romance if we tried harder or lowered our standards. |
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| Upon this unfortunate, with the touch of romance which marked many of her proceedings, Lady Derby had conferred the name of Fenella, after some ancient princess of the island. |
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| Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race. |
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| Princess Sonja, the daughter of an Oslo fashion house director, married Crown Prince Harald last summer after a will-they-won't-they romance that had gone on for a decade. |
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| The most important romance of the 13th century is the Romance of the Rose which breaks considerably from the conventions of the chivalric adventure story. |
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| The romance Arthur has become popular in film and theatre as well. |
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