Battlestar Galactica has it all: depth, darkness, beauty, brains, nuance, romance, planet-sized plot twists – and robots who look exactly like underwear models.
A decade ago, Wu-Tang Clan was hip-hop's unstoppable vanguard alliance, encompassing brains, ferocity, comedy, romance, kung-fu trivia and all the ominous urban ambience that its producer and conceptualist, the RZA, could conjure.
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science.
You know the components: a clash of wills among great brains, a hint of romance or family strife, a moral quandary and generous doses of science or what sounds like science, to flatter the audience into thinking it's momentarily on the same plane as the Nobel laureates.
In Season 5 of "Grey's," Izzie, hallucinating thanks to a brain tumor, strikes up a romance with a ghost version of her late fiancé, the adored and never forgotten Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
Structured like a police procedural, the movie has the metabolism of a thriller (it's quick, quick, quick), the bursting heart of a romance and the brains of, well, some very clever people.
And then my husband Warren, always with sex on the brain, must have recommended erotica or romance.
It's high time that we clear out some brain space for the new realities of romance.
All this earnest romance is starting to warp my brain.
Still, even my deeply cynical, introvert's brain found most of the insights and tips in Modern Romance to be pretty solid.
