But Saint-Saëns's Sonata No. 1 found the violinist on more solid late-Romantic ground.
Nonetheless, questions can be raised about precisely how to distinguish romantic relationships, grounded in eros, from relationships of friendship, grounded in philia, insofar as each involves significant interactions between the involved parties that stem from a kind of reciprocal love that is responsive to merit.
Giles's reflections struck me as romantic and grounded in an imaginary idea rather than the reality of the 99%.
Such extended, mutating numbers feel reminiscent of Echo And The Bunnymen at their most romantic, albeit grounded in old-fashioned craftsmanship.
And from Dahl's side you get empathetic children's plight (essential with two such ickily wholesome lead children), anarchically eccentric adults, a folkloric baddie to haunt young nightmares (the Child Catcher), and a class-conscious romantic subtext to ground it all.
It shows England moving from Enlightenment rationalism to Romantic excess – the grounds of a country house are being landscaped from classical order with carefully planned ruins, while a teenage scientific prodigy (hurrah it's a girl) glides from equations to embraces.
Just make sure your romantic relationships are grounded in reality, not a fantasy of what you wished were happening.
On these grounds, "Black Romantic" will be lambasted, I'm sure, by people who thought that "Black Male" was progressive.
So pervasive was the effect of this Hemingway diction that it became the voice not only of his admirers but even of those whose approach to the world was in no way grounded in romantic individualism.
In 1961 Nixon dubbed Natalie Wood's Latino character Maria, singing tunes such as the lighthearted "I Feel Pretty" and the romantic "Somewhere" in the ground-breaking West Side Story.
That gave him the historical ground for his romantic tailoring, leather corset belts, and molded showpiece dresses (covered with pounds of crystals and duly translated into more wearable dresses in the showroom).
