Sentence examples for romance of commerce from inspiring English sources

Harry Gordon Selfridge, the American founder of the British department-store chain Selfridges and the first to post in his stores the number of shopping days until Christmas, understood that retailers must seduce their customers; he titled his history of merchant cultures "The Romance of Commerce".

Something must be done to restore what I think of as the London romance of Oxford Street.

All very sensible: a far cry from the daft romance of Wings of Love or Man and Baby.

Anyone enthralled with the romance of Stanford White should read as a complement Paul R. Baker's sobering "Stanny: The Gilded Life of Stanford White" (Free Press, 1989).

Visitors tend to bypass Mayo, drawn instead by the call of rugged Connemara or the romance of WB Yeats country in Sligo.

This decade alone, two best-picture Oscar winners – The Artist and Argo - have been direct odes to the brilliance and romance of LA's film industry.

Hennessey & Ingalls, based in Santa Monica, has published the two definitive guides to Neff's work, "Wallace Neff: Architect of California's Golden Age" and the paperback "Wallace Neff 1895-1982: The Romance of Regional Architecture".

"The manual worker is as proud of his work, and rightly so, as men are in other vocations," wrote the steel magnate in one excerpt, "The Romance of Labor".

Sitting in this book-lined bedroom, I see The Gates of Africa beside In America and The Romance of American Communism, and then An Outline of Psychoanalysis beside Sexual Self-Stimulation.

What gets lost in the strip routines of Magic Mike, the articles about body building, and the occult romance of True Blood is, perhaps, his most impressive characteristic: he's incredibly bright.

But the early scientific romances of Wells remain vital and are seen to have been prophetic.