Sentence examples for romance whose from inspiring English sources

Carol, meanwhile, an extremely well-reviewed romance whose femme credentials couldn't be stronger, took just over half a million.

Her daughter Marie of Champagne encouraged the composition of Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot (Le Chevalier de la charrette), a courtly romance whose hero obeys every imperious (and unreasonable) demand of the heroine.

Symbolic climate is most prominent in romance, whose heroic quests project an aura of erotic mysticism, perfect courtesy, and moral fervour that creates a sublime heightening of tone and a picturesque sense of good order.

The work in progress, dumbly titled "Dolores," is a tacky little hockey romance whose story its director (played by Tom Novembre) insists is a metaphor for modern European history.

Guy Of Warwick, English hero of romance whose story was popular in France and England from the 13th to the 17th century and was told in English broadside ballads as late as the 19th century.

"Lost in Translation," nominated for an Oscar in four categories, is a melancholy romance, whose success seems partly due to its avoidance of explicit love scenes involving its young female lead, Scarlett Johansson.

Romances whose heroines remained chaste were immensely popular then.

A significant part of its business is the mass market segment, the smaller paperback format of thrillers and romances, whose sales have declined over several years.

Sacred tales about building temples or the spiritual evolution of semidivine beings give way to celebrations of rulers' lives, epic military battles or endlessly triangulating romances whose female participants usually pay the price.

LOVERS The Actors Company Theater, better known as TACT, will start off its 20th anniversary season with a revival of this Brian Friel play, set in 1960s Ireland, about two couples at the beginning stages of romances, whose journeys go to very different places.

Later, what went into my unconscious, more than I realized, was my reading of the Dastan of Amir Hamza, a series of loosely linked oral romances whose 46 volumes and 42,000-plus pages and more than 20 million words I read, and in some cases reread, since about 1980.