Sentence examples for light romance from inspiring English sources
The light romance itself is by no means to be despised, for the rôles of the principal participants are acted in a most earnest fashion.
The musical Let Freedom Ring (1939) sets a newspaper owner (Nelson Eddy) against a ruthless railroad magnate, while Lady of the Tropics (1939) was a light romance starring Robert Taylor and Hedy Lamarr.
Apartment for Peggy (1948) was a light romance, with Jeanne Crain and William Holden as campus newlyweds; Gwenn was notable as a suicidal professor whose depression lifts after he rents out his attic to the couple.
"It was always intended to be a fun ride, a light romance, a love story at the heart, and just a jolly good time," he told the Hollywood Reporter.
'To me it's a movie about intimacy on all different levels,' says Ryan. Dressed in jeans and a slinky blouse, her wisp of a body reveals a generosity of cleavage that informs you she is not promoting a light romance.
Reaching back to the Art Nouveau period, with its "greenery yallery" colors, its wild orchid patterns and its wistful decadence — but bouncing that against a previous Art Nouveau revival in the 1970s — this Gucci show had as much depth and variety in the decorative clothes as in the music, which ranged from light romance to grand opera.
Wodehouse began by writing public-school stories and then light romances.
In retrospect, my father felt, he might have fared better at a studio other than Warner Bros. — Paramount, perhaps, or Columbia, which released a lot of light romances.
Thus, she is much more tolerant of the brittleness of Nancy Mitford's relentlessly sophomoric light romances than the "mess" of James Baldwin's ambitious, wildly uneven "Another Country," perhaps because Mitford is always smoothly in control of her material, whereas Baldwin, trying to accomplish so much more, unquestionably is not.
Farrah Rochon's delightful Chase Me (Nicobar, ebook) is lighter romance fare — a joyful tale of two decent people who deserve a chance at happiness.
It's an undemanding broth of light comedy and even lighter romance, complete with a typical, Depression-era gibe at rich swindlers — department-store owners and other natural Reaganites — who take money from the pockets of ordinary citizens.
