Sentence examples for love rite from inspiring English sources

Jane, very drunk, had kissed, bitten and, with broken glass, cut him in a calm, but no less macabre, love rite.

On the other hand, some people love rote or mechanical or mindless tasks because there's still a sense of accomplishment after completing them.

Not all marriage rites are love rites.

In Imperial Russia, Peter the Great tried to pull the Russian Orthodox church from the former extreme to the latter: to curb its love of rite and mystery and make it more of a moral agency like the Lutheran churches of northern Europe.

Vanita, in her book Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West, studied the advertisements in 20 issues of Trikone, a magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender South Asians in San Francisco, California.

Mr. McEwan admitted he'd like to kill some commas in his first story collection, "First Love, Last Rites" (1975).

When it appeared in hardback, First Love, Last Rites was considered a critical, though certainly not a commercial, success.

The brightest flickers are on the fringes: individuals like Abbé Pierre, founder of the Emmaus movement for the homeless; "charismatics" whose style draws on Pentecostalism, and traditionalists who love Latin rites and processions.

"Portnoy's Complaint" was a clear influence on McEwan, whose début collection, "First Love, Last Rites," begins with a tale of a boy so intent on losing his virginity that he settles on his sister.

Ned is the idiot of "Our Idiot Brother," a film that's opening Friday, directed by Jesse Peretz ("The Ex," "First Love, Last Rites") and written by his sister, Evgenia Peretz, and her husband, the documentary filmmaker David Schisgall.

The Innocent (John Schlesinger, 1993) starred Anthony Hopkins and Isabella Rossellini, but was a watered-down, normalised version of the novel; with First Love, Last Rites (1998) Jesse Peretz reinvented the McEwan short story for the slacker generation.