Sentence examples for battlefield romance from inspiring English sources

It has to be a battlefield romance.

Mr. Spielberg, who was born in 1946, said the seed that became "The Pacific" was planted in his childhood, when he was confused by the disparity between the formulaic war films he would watch — central hero, romance, defining battlefield moment — and the stories he would hear from his father and an uncle, who both served in the Pacific.

His focus, however, is domestic and intimate, concerned less with the horrors of the battlefield than with the interruption of romance, the disruption of families, the devastation of homes, and the victimization of civilians — in particular, the prevalence of rape as a corollary of warfare.

Inspired by the opening line of "Henry V," its percussive battlefield effects and folklike lyricism intimate a Shakespearean romance in miniature.

If he had to live far from his beloved Civil War battlefields and Baltimore Colts, then he would find rugged romance in the wilderness.

And in "Parzival," a 12th-century Arthurian romance, the German writer Wolfram von Eschenbach stages an emotional battlefield encounter between the knight Parzival and his half-black half brother Feirefis.

ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād, son of an Arab king and a black slave girl, won such fame on the battlefield and for his poetry that he later became the hero of the Romance of ʿAntar, an Arabic folk romance.

The romance of the AK-47 was well justified by its battlefield performance.

The debate over how to expand battlefield surveillance prompts Air Force officials to defend against assertions that the service is letting its historic romance with white-scarf pilots detract from the defense secretary's priority of increasing surveillance over the battlefield.

A battlefield.

Where is the battlefield?