Sentence examples for liaisons from inspiring English sources

He lived on a houseboat, had a steady stream of passionate liaisons, and always stood his round in the bar.

The first mixed-race children were the offspring of liaisons between Korean women (frequently prostitutes or husband-seeking poor) and American troops after the 1950-53 Korean war.At one stage this "Amerasian" population is believed to have numbered in the tens of thousands, though many emigrated.

Other observers point out that the big population of overseas Chinese scattered throughout South-east Asia is especially well suited to act as liaisons for mainland Chinese businessmen.For the most part, takeover targets in Asia have little to offer Chinese companies in the way of fancy technology or global brands.

In capital floods, and up the dollar goes.In this section The caliphate cracks A bridge not far enough Dangerous liaisons Mismatch point But seriously ReprintsThe mechanics of dollar strength may be simple, the effects anything but.

TO THE gall of Iranian novelists, who have to wait for years for permission to publish and are then turned down or forced to bowdlerise their masterpieces a former mistress of the late shah, Parvin Ghaffari, has been allowed to publish a sensational kiss-and-tell memoir of her liaisons with the king and several of his courtiers in the 1940s.

"Governments are not elected to arrange nuptial liaisons, much less to untangle them," writes Joe Rogaly in the Financial Times.

Sexual encounters and romantic liaisons entertained viewers in Spain, the Netherlands and Germany, but the Britons have managed only flirtation and bragging.

Haasse revived the Marchioness of Merteuil (from Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons dangereuses) in Een gevaarlijke verhouding of Daal-en-Bergse brieven (1976; "A Dangerous Liaison, or Letters from Daal-en-Berg").

The other, Christopher Hampton's play, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", was a great adaptation that grew out of a difficult novel few would put in the first rank.Six years ago a small British theatre company, Shared Experience, working with the writer, Helen Edmundson, began to confound the received wisdom about adaptations.

Valmont, the rakish lover in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", never had to cover his tracks after sending a letter of seduction "To all staff" by mistake, or break into the IT department at night to try and erase old e-mails from his computer's hard drive.

From an early age I fell in love with those gritty American writers, from John Fante to James Ellroy, whose lonesome characters are always hopping onto buses, contemplating small-town America with a quart of rye, and having liaisons dangerous and otherwise with diner waitresses.