After years of saying "We want to overcome all the issues of meeting new people", not just dating them, today Tinder will announce its first explicitly non-romantic feature.
She agreed to spend the night at a guy's place -- a guy who had told her explicitly he was not interested in pursuing anything romantic with her after a couple of dates.
Mr. Martin's act is not only a rebuke to simple, romantic notions of comedic truth, it's also explicitly preoccupied with artifice.
Future work can address the benefits of conducting interventions that explicitly involve an individual with social anxiety difficulties and their romantic partner, as we found dysfunctional patterns resulting from the interplay of one person influencing another.
The Keats-Shelley prize, an annual award for the best poem on a Romantic theme, has for the first time this year gone to an explicitly Buddhist poet, DH Maitreyabandhu.
In 1980 he adopted a New Romantic pierrot guise for Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), an album explicitly reclaiming ground that had been occupied by club kids who had grown up under his influence.
The gloom and banality are still present, but they're now applied to explicitly autobiographical material rather than whimsy; familiar stand-up staples like childhood misadventures and romantic mishaps are present, but given Lawrence's own uniquely downbeat spin.
Some people advocate the term "minority sexual and gender identities" (MSGI, coined in 2000), or gender and sexual minorities (GSM) so as to explicitly include all people who are not cisgender and heterosexual, or gender, sexual, and romantic minorities (GSRM) which is more explicitly inclusive of minority romantic orientations and polyamory, but those have not been widely adopted either.
The impossible music, the normalization of hard-core pornography, the explicitly sexual nature of even supposedly "family friendly" entertainment — everything about modern life mocks the romantic impulse.
Gautier regarded El Greco as the ideal romantic hero (the "gifted", the "misunderstood", the "mad"), and was the first who explicitly expressed his admiration for El Greco's later technique.
