Sentence examples for distant romance from inspiring English sources

Those blood-red fezzes are all Roth needs to conjure the distant romance of the Bosnian subjects, who disappear from the novelistic pageant as quickly as they flashed by.

We learn of a distant romance between Babin and Suzanne, tantalisingly re-enacted in flashback, and ponder how Deneuve and Depardieu are perhaps the most improbable pairing to have regularly played an on-screen couple (Le Dernier Métro, Fort Saganne, Drôle d'Endroit pour une Rencontre).

A first-born male returns from foreign lands and distant romances to be close to his shaming parents.

That has meant dwelling on distant wars ("Patton"), epic romance ("Titanic"), utter fantasy ("The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"), or moral triumph ("The King's Speech") — in most cases the further from home, the better.

In these films, however, what was being concealed by the soft-focus romance (very distant from Jane Austen's shrewd knowingness) was not the workings of empire, but the first stirrings of its recuperation, as a remnant of very distant history that would be tacitly acknowledged but never regretted.

And while their romance is a distant memory, the breakup started a relationship as much as it ended one.

The fact that so many medieval romances are set in distant times and remote places is not an essential feature of romance but rather a reflection of its origins.

For all of his buoyant theorizing about human connection, however, he became somewhat distant when asked about his own romance.

Its bars and brothels have been a magnet for dishonest dealings, and its waterfront still evokes the romance of a gateway to distant lands.

He filled the role of "lover man" once occupied by Marvin Gaye and Al Green, yet while they brought a seductive sexual finesse to their performances, Vandross's voice embodied distant grace and beauty, an endless swooning romance.

Where Ms. Gleicher's histrionic mother hovers over her daughter, involving herself entirely in Jaime's life, Ms. Hilfiger's parents are emotionally distant, caught up in their own new romances and purchases.