Sentence examples for lit romance from inspiring English sources

Under the editorial aegis of Caroline Ridding - who oversaw supermarket book buying at Tesco's for six years and engineered a four-fold increase in sales before moving to HarperCollins - the new AVON list zeroes in on chick lit, romance, and thrillers.

At dinner, it becomes a setting for candle-lit romance, where marriage — not business — proposals are made.

"Imagine the Africa of the great safari era, when blazing sunsets melted into lantern-lit romance and service was an effortless whisper," declares one, and it is typical.

"Memphis Beat," a crime drama that begins on Tuesday on TNT, is a classic procedural — unorthodox cop meets by-the-book lieutenant — framed by the smoky, neon-lit romance of the blues and Southern decay.

"We're usually pigeonholed into obviously feminine genres such as chick-lit and romance, but not generally allowed to be complex artistes, to write the unusual books that break new ground.

Even your reunion with Leonardo DiCaprio was unexpected, pouring bile over the fire lit by your romance in Titanic with the brutal "you're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you" domesticity of Revolutionary Road.

For a book to qualify as a Classic Trashy Book Club book, it must be at least 20 years old and– at one point– banned, made into a TV miniseries, have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, or classified as erotica, romance, chick lit or trash.

Much like a whirlwind romance, reading chick lit is a delicious pleasure while it lasts but a harsh jolt back to reality when it's over.

I decided to focus on the romance and "chick-lit" genres.

Writing into the late hours of the night, inside the SUV as it barreled around the mountain cliff edges (fighting off nausea to get the words down), in the orange-walled restaurant lit by candles where I romanced only myself, on the train without air conditioning in 110 degrees, sweat dropping on the pages, smearing ink.

For example, she said, "I think chick lit is really a subgenre of romance".