Sentence examples for protracted love from inspiring English sources

The dreamy, protracted love scenes in "Norwegian Wood" recall that now quaint era near the peak of the sexual revolution when intense young love fired the collective imagination with envy, prurience and awe.

Headlined "What a conceited coke head", the comment piece says the book "reads like a protracted love letter to the class A drug".

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] American civility warSIR – America's protracted love affair with anti-intellectualism has found its latest expression during the Republican presidential nomination contest ("Mitt Romney marches on", January 14th).

Outraged that the memoir proved to be "a protracted love letter" to cocaine, he complained that "the truly nauseating thing about Fry's druggy posturing is that, in the very same book, he sets himself up as a moralist".

"I was born in 1950, and there's a whole bunch of us," said Mr. Macy, who has a protracted nude love scene with Maria Bello in "The Cooler".

She is preparing to go off to Russia, to the Unesco world heritage site of Kizhi island, where it is minus 30 degrees, to shoot some scenes with Domhnall Gleeson's character of Levin, whose protracted yet passionate love story with Kitty provides a thoughtful contrast to Anna's torrid emotional whirl.

"Jailey" and "Grandson", both twenty-something couples, are in the midst of participating in one of the world's oldest traditions, railing against the whirring millennial current of casual sex and protracted commitments to love.

The film, based on part of the director Ira Sachs's life, immerses viewers in the love and protracted dysfunction involving Erik, a needy documentary filmmaker, and Paul, a charming yet drug-addicted lawyer in publishing.

The Fiver loves the tortuously protracted build-up to a pointless friendly.

They are, apparently, "a band that defies category", their wobbly, protracted existence propelled by the "powerful love story at its heart".

Others, such as long-lasting love or simmering resentment, are protracted, lasting hours, months, or even years (in which case they can become a durable feature of an individual's personality).