In a far-sighted passage of A Many-Splendoured Thing, she praised those who went back but warned that: "They may see their words twisted, their devotion warped, and their best intentions serve ends which they had not conceived".
The film of her 1952 book A Many-Splendoured Thing may have been just a classic weepie, but the original novel shocked Hong Kong with its tale of her love affair with a married man and its sympathy for the appeal of communism to China's downtrodden millions.
Turkey lies along so many fault-lines, between Europe and the Middle East, between the secularity of the state and popular faith, between a many-splendoured past and current explosive growth.
A book is a many-splendoured thing.
GOODNESS, but isn't the Internet a many-splendoured thing?
"History," he intones, "is a many-splendoured thing.
Throughout the book Dr Dunbar excels at taking obvious and familiar information men prefer curvy women; women prefer men who dance well; older women rarely reveal their ages in lonely-hearts columns and explaining the complex and often unexpected evolutionary science that lies behind it all.Love is a journey, a game, a many-splendoured thing.
I think I managed it by doing my own arrangement".The documentary and recent recordings show that Mr Lynne's singing voice has retained its precision and warmth, especially with ballads such as "She" and "Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing".
Love, as we all know, is a many-splendoured thing.
The title "A Many Splendored Thing" is a reference to the 1952 historical romance novel A Many-Splendoured Thing and the subsequent film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955).
