And so Tristan and Isolde were at last reunited in ecstatic death, a good six months after downing the fateful love potion.
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti is, by contrast, a fateful love story; but headstrong Alice is hardly the Juliet to police dogsbody Teddy Butt's chest-waxing, body-building Romeo.
The first segment is a kind of fateful love story that begins and ends in tears, the second explores a breakdown of sorts against the backdrop of war, and the third, which Borrows some Latin American and Cuban rhythms and is sung in Spanish, is somewhat life-affirming.
"Since the clock struck that fateful hour, love has covered this resilient city," he said.
Its sudden, fateful hacking by the Love Machine, a rogue artificial intelligence, forms the plot of "Summer Wars," by the up-and-coming Japanese anime director Mamoru Hosoda.
For this spiky-haired classics teacher (Greek myth flows through these stories), a nocturnal train journey provides a fateful brief encounter with love and death, laying the tracks for all that is to come: her relationship with Galician fisherman Xoan (Daniel Grao), the birth of their beloved daughter, Antía, and the predestined separation from both.
The air crackles with sexual tension as the harassed Nora Clitheroe desperately tries to snatch a moment of peace with her husband, Jack; as they are about to make love, a fateful knock at the door summons Jack to the Irish Citizen Army.
This is awful and thrilling, echoing his fateful line in the series' first episode, "The things I do for love," which precedes his pushing Bran out of the tower window.
It tells of a middle-aged cashier, a modest and mousey little man, who meets a pretty gold-digger one fateful night and falls in love with her.
The overture begins with bubbly music in the style of Rossini, but the darkly meandering theme representing Friedrich's "ban of love" foreshadows the fateful leitmotifs of the "Ring".
The clash of cutlery, on the other hand, occasionally echoes as Tolstoy's tale of love, corruption and fateful meetings swirls like a feverish dream before us, above us, around us.
