This is not just great good luck — theirs was a match made on URoomSurf.com, a Web site that does for dormitory life what eHarmony and Match.com have long done for romance.
John Lennard, a professor of literature at the University of the West Indies, wrote, in an essay on Roberts, Robertss has in some ways done for Romance what the hypercelebrity of Harry Potter has done for Children's Literature, making it acceptable fare for reading adults in general".
Falling Water might be a stunning architectural accomplishment, but it wouldn't quite do for a romance novel, would it?
What happened next was startling: Erika would become E.L. James, author of the blockbusting Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, which has done for sex, romance and bondage what Julia Child did for coq au vin, cream sauce and crepes.
("Romance" does for anti-Semitism what "Oleanna" did for feminism).
Though entranced by the Joker, Mr. Nolan, working from a script he wrote with his brother Jonathan Nolan, does make room for romance and tears and even an occasional (nonlethal) joke.
Which of us doesn't pine for romance, fairness, virtue and bravery?
It's this sense of imagination that makes you forgive the play its faults and celebrate it for what it does provide: romance, sex, poetry, song parody and the chance to see Rabe embracing a headless corpse even before the next season of American Horror Story kicks off.
Miller does not lack passion for New York, but he does lack romance.
Indeed, those who came to the auction did so less for romance and royalty than for fine drink.
