Sentence examples for romance humorous from inspiring English sources

The Dixie Chicks play their own instruments, write their own songs, and, before they were backed into a corner and forced to endlessly defend themselves for a single political comment made 12 years ago, they were viewed as beloved storytellers who stirred up feelings of wide-eyed romance, humorous revenge, and big-dreaming adventure.

In 1884 the brilliantly eccentric and repetitiously named schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a humorous, satirical novella set in a fictional two-dimensional world.

The book was slightly humorous with dashes of romance streaked across the pages which I did like a lot because the balance of romance was pretty level so the book wasn't a mushy, sappy fantasy novel.

I like to read books that are realistic and humorous, sometimes with a bit of romance in them.

Created by Ansari and "Parks and Rec" writer Alan Yang, it is somewhat based on — or shares certain interests with — Ansari's recent humorous book of serious sociology, "Modern Romance," about finding love in an age of apps, and is smart, sweet and funny in ways both familiar and fresh.

Whedon deals in a humorous but affecting way with the burgeoning romance between Natasha and Banner.

Each one of his films is a humorous drama built upon a framework of romance.

Together Jan and Michael present a blackly humorous contrast to the show's central romance between the office mates Jim and Pam, which itself echoes the tantalizing will-they-or-won't-they zigzag consecrated on "Cheers" and "Friends".

For example, you don't want to speak confidingly when you're telling an epic tale (like Beowulf), but you wouldn't want your voice to get all epic if you were narrating a humorous Shell Silverstein poem, or a light fluffy romance.

Romance doesn't have to be so serious: it can also be humorous and playful.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.