Sentence examples for renounced love from inspiring English sources

It's cheeky, too, featuring a semi-autobiographical "Colette" who at the start of the book claims that she has renounced love, only to spend much of the novel flirting outrageously with a much younger suitor.

Her life became a public tragedy of renounced love.

Is it worth renouncing love forever, as Alberich does, to win control of the Rheingold?

In "Rhapsodia Satanica" (1917), as an aging aristocrat, she bargains with the devil, who promises to restore her youth if she will renounce love.

Fervaal and Guilhen fall hopelessly for each other, even though Fervaal is expected to renounce love and claim his place as defender of the old religion.

Instead, you tell minorities how to conduct their lives, women and girls in need of an abortion to stick it out come what may and gays and lesbians to renounce love and intimacy.

The recorded Krapp on the cusp of middle age strikes a defensively self-important note as befits a would-be elevated writer who thinks that by renouncing love, he can clear the decks for a masterpiece.

At the palace, Nero tells Agrippina of his troubles, and decides to renounce love for political ambition ("Come nube che fugge dal vento").

This is not true of the great Kokinshū poets of the 9th century Ono Komachi, Lady Ise, Ariwara Narihira, and Tsurayuki himself but even Buddhist priests, who presumably had renounced carnal love, wrote love poetry at the court competitions, and it is hard to detect any difference between such poems and those of actual lovers.

Charles Baudelaire saw Emma as the victim of "a society that has renounced spiritual love once and for all".

They had each renounced their love for this stranger and had sworn to remain true to each other.