— plenty of romance, a bit of singing and dancing, a dog, plots and counterplots, and characters pulled from the trunk of dramatic types: a dastardly villain, a strapping hero.
Doughty might have eased into the romance a bit more gently, but I expect she wanted to put up a sign: readers, this isn't just a heartbreaking tale of shattering loss!
I suspect that he is "romancing" a bit when he says this, but that the larger point he is making is serious and true: well-cared-for animals taste better than mass-produced ones.
But make no mistake: Christian right leaders got behind Ronald Reagan, who was divorced, and George H. W. Bush, who formerly supported abortion rights, after they were romanced a bit and quietly forged pacts with the candidates, including regarding stopping advancement on gay rights.
Most, if not all, YA fiction includes romance, so a bit of Jane Austen classic romance shouldn't hurt, should it?
This book is a thriller novel with a hint of romance and a bit of mystery.
It's a sweet and funny romance with a bit of footie thrown in: what's not to like?
The special effects don't age well; the doomed Buffy-Angel romance feels a bit "Twilight" and between them, Giles, Spike and Drusilla get through more cliches of Britishness than a Hugh Grant retrospective.
But it is striking that romance, always a bit abstract, is apparently now defined as "the best odds of a fellow passenger falling for you across a crowded car or platform, and then posting a 'Missed Connections' ad on Craigslist in search of you".
His weekends, however, are full of romance — and a bit of extra cash.
And the mobile librarians really know their customers' interests – not just that they like romances, for instance, but romances with a bit of spice, not too much sex, a bit of history.
