In spite of the censor's anxieties, Katniss's story, with its sexless romance, pain-free violence and adolescent mindset, isn't going to unsettle young minds.
Winter Sun reflects on dwindling romance; The Pain of Never is swooningly melancholic.
Edward Said, a Jerusalem-born Palestinian-American scholar, caught the romance and pain of exile when he called it "a strangely compelling idea, but a terrible experience".
"When I read Highlander, what interested me was the romance, the pain that this guy was carrying, not being able to die and looking around him at all the people he loved going before him".
Whether she's singing rhythm-and-blues, rock, jazz or the song with which she is indelibly linked, "At Last," Ms. James has a voice that holds all the pleasures of romance and the pains of heartache.
And in no part of the country will fans be more aware of what 'passion' really means: that the word's Latin origins do not refer to enjoyment and romance, but suffering and pain.
The big promo campaigns; the paparazzi; letting the gossipmongers feed on your public romances and your private pain – none of this really sounds like her.
They ask for help with panic attacks, depression, back pain, sexual identity, romance troubles, even life's entire direction.
He has a sense of humor, a sense of romance and a sense of pain and vulnerability, so those things are in there".
If you're lucky, Channing Tatum will bump into a lamppost but otherwise, the romance comes with tears of pain, not joy.
