Lee — a Californian by birth and a New Yorker by love — struck me, a nervous Newsweek refugee, as very un-Timesean.
Frances's disavowal of love strikes a poignant note, too, for Bobbi was her girlfriend before she became her friend.
Quasimodo, seeing Esmeralda hanging lifeless from the gallows, cries out, "There is all I loved". The theme of redemption through love struck a universal chord.
Its tale of a modern prince who longs to marry for love struck a chord in the 1990s, a decade full of royal scandals ("It seems the royal family likes it – now I get invited to things!" says Bourne).
The themes of his early poetry — alienation, skepticism, personal salvation through romantic love — struck all the keynotes of our journey from Mao's little red children to bitterly disillusioned adults.
After five years, when he left her in Trieste while he returned to Dublin, she began the determinedly pornographic letters intended to keep him away from prostitutes when "the old fever of love" struck.
2. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld Young love strikes two prep school students in such a real-feeling and exciting way, I read straight through a whole weekend until the inevitable turn.
Correction: May 24 , 2001 Thursday A front-page article on Monday about the high divorce rate in the Bible Belt referred imprecisely to the Southern Baptist jurisdiction of the Rev. Anthony Jordan, who said pastors were afraid to tell love struck parishioners that they were too immature for marriage.
Munnabhai alias Murli Prasad Sharma (Sanjay Dutt), has temporarily suspended his violent acts as he has become love struck with radio presenter Janhavi (Vidya Balan).
Perhaps Hans Christian Andersen's tragic tale of The Little Mermaid with its theme of doomed love struck a painfully familiar chord with Alexander von Zemlinsky.
