• It is meant to act as a check on the problematic impulses of romance and sentimentalism.
• He and Travis never talked about feelings or about intimate things like romance.
• Both men and women consider romance and passion far less important than support and caring.

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• Alora had had boyfriends before when she was a two or three years younger, but only childish romances, nothing serious.
• Jude could almost picture it - summers spent in with the family, and holiday romances remembered fondly years later.
• Following a whirlwind romance, the two get hitched and jet off to Europe for a disastrous honeymoon - returning back to America at the point of separation.

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• Too many movie romances depend on the love story as a function of the plot, rather than giving us two characters who have appealing qualities or who might actually see something in one another.
• It also posed one of the great unanswered questions of recent film romances - did they meet again?
• The promotional materials presented the film strictly as a romance with no hint of its political overtones.

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• Much the same with horror or science fiction or romance.
• You write in several different genres; you've written some science fiction and romance in addition to mystery.
• Thus, if we are to associate Hawthorne's explanation of sympathy with any genre, it should not be with either romance or sentimental fiction.

• ‘We romanced the idea of having customers see what's in the store - people and products - when they're not in the store,’ says Zenaide Russack, Canal Jean's manager.
• And one of the main reasons is that there are a lot of new voters and naturalized citizens that don't have a tradition of loyalty to either party, therefore, they are open to be convinced or, like I say, open to be romanced.

• The smitten couple, who have been romancing for six years, got engaged in March this year in Paris' Eiffel Tower.
• Spokespeople for Jennifer and Vince have insisted the pair are not romancing.