The carefully stage-managed ascent to diva status involved a succession of impressive frocks but the centrepiece was Bleeding Love, a modern standard with international appeal which allowed Simon Cowell to present Leona to American audiences as the UK's new sensation; then, when America took the bait, he reinvigorated her UK profile by trumpeting her phenomenal US success.
Costume designer Marit Allen used the item as a sartorial centrepiece of the quashed-love opus, explaining the jacket's emotional significance like so: "Heath [Ledger] worked with his clothes, using everything he wears to convey Ennis's repression – the jackets, done up; the cowboy hats, to hide behind".
Comparisons with his sitcom Coupling are inevitable when we reach the farcical centrepiece, in which the two-way love triangle between Grant/Lucy/The Ghost plays out.
A major advertising campaign was launched to lure back shoppers to the city centre, the centrepiece of which is the "I Love MCR" day timed to coincide with Manchester Pride and the August bank holiday weekend.
Ivory – who is already being compared to the great Nottingham working-class author Alan Sillitoe – will bring his personal interpretations of The Rainbow and Women in Love to BBC4 next year, as the centrepiece of a season devoted to love and sex.
In particular, two modern sects which send members to knock on doors to evangelise (Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons) love Revelation, it being a centrepiece of their theological outlook.
According to tradition, a student could test her beau's love by walking him around Lake Waban, the centrepiece of Wellesley's campus, three times.
The centrepiece of the "Coltrane liturgy" is his 1964 album, A Love Supreme, what the church calls his "testimony".
On Little Bit, the hypnotic centrepiece of her debut, she was "a little bit in love", while here "sadness is her boyfriend", the album recorded in the aftermath of an unrequited love affair.
The headlines, of course, were due to Eminem, who had sampled the first verse of her track 'Thank You' - a sugar-sweet love song originally written for Bob - and made it the centrepiece of his tale of twisted obsession, 'Stan'.
