We're with her as she's swept away by giddy high school romances, attempting to open up adult relationships, finding best friendship, finding primary partnership, finding community, finding boyfriends, then falling in love with a boyfriend while staying in a primary relationship.
He recognizes that style has a moral dimension, and, through the discovery of exalted romance, he attempts to free the style he loves of its prejudicial narrowness and to sublimate it into a variety of freedom that is inseparable from discipline and forethought — into a sort of conditioned spontaneity and refined instinct.
But it was our dump, where bets were quietly placed, liquor secretly drunk, romance delicately attempted — and the days diligently chronicled.
But let the readers of romance novels attempt the same feat at their own peril: the publishing industry thrives on their mistakes.
Of course, not everyone looking to get across town is interested in sparking a romance, and attempting to avoid uncomfortable social situations is a fact of life for collaborative consumption companies like Airbnb, TaskRabbit and others.
Titled It's All About Love, it featured bemused duo Joaquin Phoenix and Clare Danes in a story of apocalyptic omens and ice skating shot through with whimsy, romance and attempted profundity.
The Thanksgiving-focused episode kept young Carrie primarily in Connecticut dealing with high school romances and attempting to fill her mom's suburban shoes by being a perfect housewife.
Ockler's novel, which tells of a girl's summer romance as she attempts to get over the death of her first love a year earlier, is being removed from the school curriculum and library in Republic, Missouri, along with Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
There are injuries and recoveries, tortured romances and melodramatic attempts to cling to home.
He wrote a couple of books that failed -- a French romance and an attempt to be comic about the new retail commerce in London -- but his output was of an amazingly high quality.
