Sentence examples for present romance from inspiring English sources
La Celestina was one of the first works to present romance in everyday life.
"As adapted with fidelity by the actress Eileen Atkins and directed by Marleen Gorris (whose Academy Award-winning "Antonia's Line" was much less adroit), the film drifts easily between past and present, romance and pragmatism, hope and despair in its evocation of Woolf's vision".
JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH Summit Chorale presents "Romance Is in the Air" concert.
An account of an affair between a young fashion model and an older novelist, "No Strings" presents romance as a bubbling, stinging phenomenon, translated into a score and lyrics that are in equal parts mordant and moody, from the acerbic Rodgers and Hart-style hymn to hedonism, "Eager Beaver," to the darkly wistful "Sweetest Sounds".
He has also presented Romancing the Stone, a three-part history of British sculpture for BBC Four, and Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball, a 90-minute BBC Two film marking the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's novel in 1813.
Ayoade proved able to present young romance in a way that feels neither cliched nor overblown, and when things fall apart in his films it's genuinely heartbreaking.
That's when it started to present its romance options to me.
Or was it something more toxic, presented as romance?
In "W.E.," directed by Madonna, the love affair of King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy and Wallis Simpson Andrea Riseboroughgh) is interwoven with the present-day romance of a married Englishwoman (Abbie Cornish) and a Russian security guard (Oscar Isaac).
After the less-successful I'll Do Anything (1994), Brooks scored another hit with As Good As It Gets (1997), which presented a romance between an aging curmudgeon (played by Jack Nicholson) and a single mother (Helen Hunt) and garnered Oscars for both of its leads.
The present-day romance involves two young researchers, an American graduate student named Roland Michell Aaron Eckhartt) and a British junior professor named Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow, her hair drawn back into an impeccable bun and her syllables shaped into an equally impeccable over-educated upper-middle-class English accent).
