Consider Emma's first affair, with Rodolphe.
It wasn't even his first affair with a teacher.
She drinks, she complains bitterly and she takes it out on her only daughter, who is soon having her first affair, with an American married man (Tim Guinee), and discovering the meaning of the pursuit of happiness.
Kudelka-style Kastchei acquires a nymphomaniac wife who has a two-second affair with one of his generals.
A momentous piece of emotional business was nicely handled: rather than saying anything directly to his mother, Zach confided in his uncle Owen that he knew about his father's second affair (with Kalinda), confident that Owen would pass along the news — and the forgiveness implicit in it — to Alicia.
Apparently, her first affair was with the celebrated actress Eva Le Gallienne, three years her senior, but although she liked to boast about her irregular love life — "I'm a lesbian," she announced to a stranger at a party.
It seems to be of the greatest irony that my first love affair with a country song is the very way our fans describe their first pair of Old Gringo's.
"Lake Paradise," one of three stories about David Bardo, a State Department careerist, describes his youthful first love affair with working-class Alice Duboyce.
By then, too, Forster had finally lost his virginity ("parted with respectability," as he put it) and had had his first physical affair with a man in Egypt during the war.
In the third, set in 1967, Corley Court has been turned into a prep school; Paul Bryant, a bookish young bank clerk in Foxleigh, the local town, meets Daphne, and has his first love affair, with Peter Rowe, a teacher at the school.
He added that the album would look predictable because it was an "entirely second-guessable affair with each movement telegraphed and every realigned arrangement (bombast turned down, jazz and funk switched up) meeting the listener's expectations head on".
