Sentence examples for off the lover from inspiring English sources

The intellectual is always showing off; the lover is always getting lost.

She has killed the affair, killed off the lover.

He is dragged into it by her neediness and her fury, and Cynthia's robust fearlessness is the crucial element in this romantic melodrama, which is so vivid you can smell the anxiety pouring off the lovers' flesh.

At this point, nearly three minutes into what feels less like a trailer than a tinyURL condensation of the entire film, we're getting antsy for Winnie to do something dastardly, if only for dramatic purposes: set fire to a ring of tyres encircling a hapless innocent, say, or cop off with the lover she kept openly throughout her husband's imprisonment and beyond.

I have to admit that, at first, it was hard to shake off the meat-lover's niggling prejudices.

And that set off the plot.MIL: "The Lovers" is the third novel in a trilogy exploring themes of women submerged in conflict, chaos, or grief.

If the love object breaks off the relationship, the lover experiences signs of drug withdrawal, including protest, crying spells, lethargy, anxiety, insomnia or hypersomnia, loss of appetite or binge eating, irritability and loneliness.

It's not like the moment in Nagisa Oshima's In The Realm of the Senses, when the prostitute cuts off her lover's penis, or when, in Marco Ferreri's The Last Woman, Gérard Depardieu takes a Moulinex carving knife to his member.

In 1976, he became a cause célèbre with his study of Sada the housemaid, imprisoned in 1936 after cutting off the genitals of her lover and carrying them around in a silk purse.

The brownies turned off the most devoted chocolate lovers at our table.

In his novel A Single Man, filmed by Tom Ford last year, Isherwood perhaps vengefully kills off the hero's much younger lover.