Sentence examples for marital war from inspiring English sources
Private quarters, not so long ago the battleground for a marital war between the former mayor and his wife, have been opened to visitors.
Her concern is for children who "are being used as weapons in the marital war when actually they are its victims".
From Burton and Taylor's ugly marital war in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1966) right through to Aaron Sorkin's snappily expressed Washington intrigue in Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Mike Nichols was bringing literate, grownup dramas and comedies to the screen.
It is always dangerous to investigate marital wars from beyond the grave, and even more presumptuous to try to apportion blame.
New York magazine reported at the time of the 1983 staging: "Taylor and Burton, scarred survivors of tabloids and marital wars, were wheeling their circus into town before a 10-week run in New York, and the paparazzi were ready to descend.
On a more conciliatory note, Nora Ephron's 1993 hit, "Sleepless in Seattle," and its cuddly clones offer the promise of new romantic beginnings to casualties of the marital wars.
At certain moments, it has been proposed as a panacea for sin, luxury, moral corruption, poverty, alcoholism, marital discord, war, and urban vice and depravity.
Candidates are prone to embellishing things in their past (from academic records to marital history) but war service has always been a particularly tempting area for exaggeration.
Consider his Sam Stone in dark comedy Ruthless People (1986), a millionaire businessman bent on murdering his wife (Bette Midler); Gavin D'Amato, the super-sleazy lawyer in pitch-black marital farce The War Of The Roses (1989), which DeVito also directed; or the wickedly entertaining villain the Penguin in Tim Burton's Batman Returns (1992).
An Air Force doctor diagnosed "acute PTSD," calling it a reaction to the war and marital problems.
Catherine committed the marital transgression of waging war against her husband, Arnold of Egmond, whom she considered incompetent (with some justification).
