"It was the equivalent of love at first sight".
"It was the political equivalent of love at first sight," Norquist recalled of those early days.
Middelhoff saw the "stickiness" in AOL's consumer-friendly features, and it was the businessman's equivalent of love at first sight.
The portrayals are physical but not sensuous, harsh yet intensely engaged — the painterly equivalent of tough love.
But many of the songs on his previous albums offer the equivalent of a love note etched in skywriting, suitable for ceremonial purposes.
Jia Tolentino elegantly explained how women use the whisper network to warn one another about dangerous men; for a gay equivalent, I'd love to have the nerve to call it a lisping network, but I wonder if a better term might be the network that dare not speak its name.
No ideology could surpass the family love equivalent to national love, as blood was thicker than water.
Someone wishing to flirt by text – the modern equivalent of the love letter - for example, might delegate the precious task to their most textually talented acquaintance; or, at the least, might spend many hours composing and revising the perfect 140-character communication.
Let's not forget he recently picked Pastor Rick Warren for his inauguration -- a man who thinks gay marriage is equivalent to writing love sonnets to an underage goat.
EXPECT the diplomatic equivalent of a love-in now that China's president, Xi Jinping, has landed in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, for a two-day visit.
