These boys' lives were strangely romantic at first glance, but the whole thing was actually driven by money.
Even the book's heroes and villains, defined with romantic simplicity at first glance, blur together more interestingly as you get to know them properly.
Orpheus closed the program with a warm-hued, dreamily paced account of Dvorak's Serenade for Strings (Op. 22), a Romantic composer's loving glance at a late-18th-century form.
The movie wants desperately to function as a romantic tragedy, with passions glancing off the thoughtless pursuit of satisfaction.
But sitting side by side and facing a couple of strangers on the other side of the station is more an exercise in surreptitious glancing than a romantic restaurant experience.
I used to lie awake at night, imagining romantic scenarios involving sixth-grade dances stolen glances, drama in the soda line, someone dancing with a person and then dancing with someone else and "Careless Whisper" was the soundtrack.
During a romantic dinner with my husband, I glanced up briefly from my iPhone long enough to observe an incredible sight.
I was looking for a romantic comedy, and I knew, at first glance I knew, it was a script that I could run with.
Had Eve had the benefit of all of this research, she could have then told Adam, "Your biomarker indicates a feeling of sexual desire, as opposed to romantic love on your part, when you glance in my direction.
19 at 1 30: In "Elgar and Modernism," the festival takes a sidelong glance at how the late-Romantic master fit into the world of his more "advanced" colleagues.
