She had a few affairs (some, in an understandable turnabout, with younger men), but the light had gone out.
Coronation Street, a saga of births, marriages and deaths, with a few affairs, divorces and reconciliations along the way, is the spice of real life without tinsel wrapping.
Bruni, who once said monogamy was boring, was part of a love triangle that touched the Dombasle-Lévy family - it seems that in the small world of Paris power couples, everyone is just a few affairs away from one another.
He writes of a few love affairs, his road trips, and obsessional body building, but doesn't explain why, after one affair, he gave up sex for some 35 years.
Back at college, she kept reminding herself that she was emancipated & had a few more affairs.
He writes of a few love affairs, his road trips and obsessional bodybuilding.
Katrine (Birgitte Hjort Sorensen) is an attractive, ambitious and hard-working journalist in her early 30s, and is alone and lonely despite a few passionate affairs, including an on-and-off one with Kasper, who is also her best source.
Stevie Smith had at least a few love affairs with men and with women (she writes about her broken engagement, to a man she calls Freddy, in "Novel on Yellow Paper"), and she was a friend of George Orwell, but she lived with her aunt for sixty-six years.
My own intuition is that if someone has largely had good experiences with the other sex, and only a few disastrous affairs of the kind that tear your heart out and whomp it to the ground, he or she is inclined to be optimistic about the state of the sexes.
He was getting drunk almost every night, he was living with a youngster 30 years his junior, he was conducting a few extra affairs on the side, he was concerned with money and status — and at the same time he was making a pilgrimage to India with his guru, he was a regular participant in temple activities and he was preparing his soul for old age and death.
After a few failed affairs with women, sex became another symbol to be represented and feared, nearly as much as the others.
