Romantic bonding finds its correlative in wild nature, somehow, in isolation and mists and jagged green hills.
Still, her ear for the awkward and tentative rhythms of romantic bonding remains, especially on a pair of earthy duets — the haplessly romantic "Everything Has Changed," with Ed Sheeran, and "The Last Time" with Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which has residue of the dirge-y folk duo the Civil Wars and "Safe & Sound," Ms. Swift's gummy contribution to the soundtrack of "The Hunger Games".
Taz wasn't locked up, and, at times, she felt a romantic bond with her pimp.
Alissa didn't run away partly because of a feeling that there was a romantic bond, partly because of Stockholm syndrome, and partly because of raw fear.
They've been through so much together, building a family by looking out for each other and their friends, that a sort of romantic bond is plausible.
The movie had an almost screwball-comedy buoyancy to it, but it was smoother and sexier than something from the thirties; its two spectacular-looking stars created a rapt romantic bond.
"Did he tell her he was a woman before the wedding, or after?" Albert wonders about this arrangement, believing, mistakenly, that it is more of a business deal than a romantic bond.
He returned to the theatre in "L'Amour Fou," and again for "Out 1," his nearly thirteen-hour drama about the intersecting fortunes of two theatre companies in Paris and the grand and petty conspiracies and romantic bonds that link them.
In the new Broadway play "Next Fall," in which sharp religious differences test a gay couple's romantic bond, it is ultimately a traffic accident — not AIDS — that lands one of the men in critical condition.
The film leaves it unclear whether the protagonists' tale is one of a new romantic bond or a former romance renewed, whether it's a story of biological or adoptive paternity, a story of family or of a fleeting encounter, of eroticism past or future.
This Valentine's Day, as people celebrate their romantic bonds, many will also reflect on another significant relationship in their lives: the one between them and their employers.
