Sentence examples for destructive romance from inspiring English sources
This dark novel explores the obsessive (and destructive) romance between two determinedly heterosexual women: a timid young teacher trying to escape her disastrous marriage and an artist who has just lost her husband.
And the big emotions bridged the gap separating the two in the songs they performed together, such as "Stan," where Rihanna sang Dido's reassuring vocal hook, and "Love the Way You Lie," their hit duet about a destructive romance.
She agrees to reprise her breakthrough play, a destructive lesbian romance – except now, 20 years on, she's taking the role of the older woman rather than the young seductress.
It suggests that, for every teen, family identity is in some way a dubious fabrication, and it puts forth a violent variety of "family romance" — a destructive and quasi-nihilistic fantasy — as both a warning and an antidote.
But when Anna's head is turned by the dashing Count Vronsky (Vasili Lanovoy), she finds herself risking her marriage, her family, and her husband's career in pursuit of a romance as self-destructive as it is passionate.
It takes two to Tango Mr. Reich, and when you insist on government being in the middle it will always make for a stormy romance… if not destructive of us all.
Romance, like comedy, is a conflict between destructive and restorative impulses, and these impulses are embodied in the characters that inhabit this dream fiction.1 Like comic characters, the characters of romance evoke in us the same responses of wish and fear, and like comedy itself romance builds toward a catharsis of those two emotions.
If Graves and the writers wanted to reveal the destructive sexual power struggle between the two siblings and highlight their crumbling twisted romance, they should've steered clear of any hint of rape.
Destructive: constructive.
