Sentence examples for disastrous romance from inspiring English sources

Before "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest," before his disastrous romance with Lord Alfred Douglas and the ensuing scandal of his trials and incarceration: before, in short, what really guaranteed his place in literature and history, the figure that comes to mind when one hears "Oscar Wilde" already existed.

He just can't remember their blissful-then-disastrous romance because Jessica mercifully "glamored" him into forgetting.

After delivering the disastrous beach romance Swept Away starring then-wife Madonna he set his sights on seemingly comfortable terrain: a crime caper in the Lock Stock and Snatch mold featuring Ritchie favorite Jason Statham as the lead.

But I've always had disastrous holiday romances in the past.

When it comes to romance, though, electronic devices can be disastrous.

The novel is hermetic in its singular occupation with the disastrous relationship between Doum and Will and the corollary romance between Liz and the married Leibowitz.

She copied out a long passage on female friendship from Melanie Klein's "Love, Guilt and Reparation" and sent it to Methfessel, building a case for the romance that Bishop sometimes feared was both "unsuitable & disastrous," owing to their age difference.

The marriage came after a period of high-profile romances, including brief walkouts with Nicholas Cage and John F Kennedy Jnr and a disastrous seven-year relationship with a drug-addicted Robert Downey Jnr.

She's drawn not to the gambler in Huck but to the responsible man she would like him to be — a disastrous basis for a love affair, and a stuffy idea for a movie romance.

The affair between Max and Mona was ranked as the tenth top video game romance by Joystick Division's James Hawkins in 2011, and as the sixth most disastrous game romance by GamesRadar's Dave Meikleham that same year.

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.