Sentence examples for peculiar romance from inspiring English sources

You can't have my surname and not be grateful for the blunt, good words that come from Old English; but I confess a personal predilection for words of Latin origin, with the arch distance they offer from the realm of ordinary speech, and their secret etymological histories, which seem to me to bestow a peculiar romance upon the craft of writing.

For my money, certainly for the cost of a Mets' gold-date ticket, I'd have preferred the peculiar Romance language called Stengelese to the bland Art of Howe, a seat in the old Polo Grounds to a view of the Shea Stadium parking lot, comic relief from players nicknamed (out of necessity) Righty Bob and Lefty Bob Miller to the terminal dullness of the modern Mets.

What the Duke's peculiar romance-language does (it will recur often in the late romances) is to point to those areas in the plot that can be outlived, even if there are others that cannot be mended and must be forgotten.

He is both flattered and unnerved by the attention — which is more than simply scholarly — but to say too much about what happens between them would risk spoiling one of the most delicate and peculiar romances recently depicted on film.

Beyond the phony acting, what's shocking in this love story is its peculiar disregard for romance.

It is a peculiar feature of this conventionally packaged romance that the further the book strays from its formula and from Willem, the more appealing and effective it is.

The play itself is eminently worth reviving but here it becomes little more than a jolly romp, spattered with four-letter words and missing the peculiar Euripdean mix of satire and romance.

Fellow Yankees who reveled in France's peculiar marriage of pleasure and rigor (a romance lately on the wane), they settled in Paris, however temporarily, and found their souls' lifelong home.

As for Stieglitz's photographs of O'Keeffe, their fascination, apart from the obvious romance of the images, is the peculiar mix of puritanism with eroticism, a paradox of Stieglitz's personality with its roots in another era.

But though the language of romance has been used to describe their peculiar melodrama, the continuing saga of Archbishop Milingo and Ms. Sung seems less a love story than an interfaith firefight.

In nearly all Romance languages a following nasal consonant has caused peculiar development in a preceding vowel.