Sentence examples for familiar romance from inspiring English sources

Much of what makes the movie pleasurable is the vigor with which it restages our familiar romance with period criminals, a perennial affair.

This is a familiar romance -- perhaps too familiar -- one that has been part of the Western heritage since Romanticism and is linked to the countercultural sensibility Ms. Solnit celebrates.

The Artist parades its conceit at every turn of its familiar romance.

He charmingly delivers the boy behind the ragamuffin troubadour, doing justice to young Zimmerman's jumbled early musical interests, including rock 'n' roll, however off kilter it seems in the familiar folk romance.

His comedies and tragedies derived largely from Classical antiquity, but in Los siete infantes de Lara ("The Seven Princes of Lara"), El reto de Zamora ("The Challenge of Zamora"), and La libertad de España por Bernardo del Carpio ("The Liberation of Spain by Bernardo del Carpio"), all published in 1588, he revived heroic legends familiar in romances and helped to found a national drama.

Even theatergoers familiar with this romance should read a summary beforehand; none is provided with the playbill.

The rest of the story is appealingly grotesque if a bit familiar: A budding romance turns tragic because of a father's meddling.

Song topics encompassed familiar laments of failed romance, stories of sexual escapades (often described in double-entendre references), and tales of rambling and life on the road, as well as apocalyptic musings on salvation and damnation.

But the French turned instead to the familiar face and the romance of the traditional farm, revealing at the same time a great deal about how they think about their government and about fear itself.

The turning points are clearly delineated: once the blokes have busted out of prison they are quickly offered a job (heisting gold) which leads to heated confrontations, interpersonal development between JR and his criminal mentor and a familiar riff on forbidden romance.

The mercurial Swedish actor Alicia Vikander overcomes an only slightly wobbly accent (in a role originally earmarked for Saoirse Ronan) to hold her own against a barrage of all-too familiar elements: the prewar romance; the Brief Encounter parting; the derailed family celebrations, etc.