Sentence examples for romantic assumptions from inspiring English sources

A lot of elitist assumptions are made about the way people read Bridget Jones Diaryy, or watch Sex and the City – but actually there's a bourgeois audience that reads for exactly the same reasons, and the books they're reading are not, in the end, very different in terms of the superficiality of the romantic assumptions that underlie them.

Indeed, he told me that his 1997 novel, "Enduring Love," in which a relentlessly rational man defeats a relentlessly irrational stalker, was conceived as a reply to the "unexamined Romantic assumption that still lingers in the contemporary novel, which is that intuition is good and reason bad".

From them he drew the convictions with which he challenged the romantic (or realist) assumption that emotion and form had become virtual opposites.

Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe" inspired "Field of Dreams," a movie whose appeal (however treacly, no matter the Costner) derives from romantic, rather than economic, assumptions about baseball's role in the national consciousness.

In BEFORE THE POISON (Morrow/ HarperCollins $25.99), Peter Robinson refutes the common assumption that romantic suspense is a woman's game.

"The Invention of Love," itself the invention of a smart romantic, proceeds on the assumption that the sharpest spear ever to transfix Housman was his love of Moses Jackson.

Sasha: You're right, but the assumption behind your (romantic?) hope is that the books will be read.

Published in Human Relations, the researchers wrote:"Conventional wisdom and research seem to suggest that partners in dual career-couples have to decide whether they would rather risk their careers or their romantic relationship...Our research questions the assumption that working longer hours is hazardous for all romantic relationships".

Second, we wanted to focus on the feminine point of view in regard to romantic relationships based on the assumption that their experiences in the home versus host countries would be more drastically different than those of males.

"How does one find forms capable of challenging the orthodoxies of 20th century art, as Alexandra Harris does in Romantic Moderns, or interrogate basic societal assumptions, as Kathryn Schulz does in Being Wrong.

That assumption has led Amalia into romantic ties with her main purveyor of stolen goods, a smooth-talking hustler named Errico.