"I was so annoyed when people said we did well or didn't do well -- I didn't have anything to compare it to," Mr. Bernard said, explaining the statisticians' zeal to reduce romance to numbers that lies behind this esoteric research project.
Shot largely in sequence, Critical dares viewers to be the first to blink, and that tension alone makes it stand out in a genre that has long been reduced to romance across the bedpans or that-would-never-happen-in-real-life cases of the week.
I hate seeing romance reduced to Ferrero Rochers, cuddly pink bunnies and Waitrose ready meals very Valentine's Day as much as anybody who hasn't been trepanned.
Will reducing the airy romance of the original to a seaside postcard sitcom improve its ratings with an audience that would rather watch EastEnders It's sometimes said that if Shakespeare was alive today he would be making millions in Hollywood, or writing for television.
What was once a fierce rebel cause had been reduced to a bizarre fantasy romance.
In Romance, Latin inflectional endings have been much reduced, and more reliance is placed on syntactic construction to convey sentence meaning; that is, Romance languages are more "analytic" than the predominantly "synthetic" Latin.
For new adulterers, reduced circumstances are just another part of the romance.
Worse, not only does it not provide any values of its own, say its detractors, it also undermines the ones we already have, devaluing anything it can't measure, reducing sunsets to wavelengths and romance to jiggly hormones.
Barbara has her own addiction, specifically to the kind of storybook romance that, the movie suggests, reduces human relations to commercial transactions as much as pornography does.
After many authors saw their rankings stripped on the Kindle store, essentially reducing their availability and visibility, while forcing others in the romance category to recategorize or get dinged as well.
