He's a romantic pushed by circumstances and small humiliations into a role he is neither prepared for nor, arguably, deserves.
This merely confirmed that camping at festivals is as romantic as pushing a carrot up your nose.
When not interrupted by a smarty-pants kid poking holes in her story, Jan the Unnamed guides the audience through the tangled thickets of plot filled with power plays and romantic triangles pushed along by single-cell Machiavels.
No matter how blighted our own love lives may be, a decent romantic novel can push all our troubles aside.
Other than the songs there a couple of silly poems, including one in which he pushes romantic notions too far.
In "Where the Wild Stream Flows," the story is darker — when a wealthy landowner kills a romantic rival by pushing him off a mountain bridge the town turns against him — and the formula is less rigidly followed, but it's filled with the same cast of German archetypes: bosomy women, hard-working men, and innocent, blond children.
Its strength lies in Walter's struggle and success in pushing romantic or impressionist art in the face of the sort of hatred that always springs up amongst the arts establishment in the face of anything that is good or new.
In Sturtevant's words: "What is currently compelling is our pervasive cybernetic mode, which plunks copyright into mythology, makes origins a romantic notion, and pushes creativity outside the self".
Away from the gaze of their families, many young people begin to push the romantic boundaries.
Will they all perhaps, subconsciously, push your romantic comedy towards the twisted, or encourage your historical fiction to become a ghost story?
They push this romantic notion that women are the bedrock of all humanity and it's our responsibility to raise children in order to make the world a better place.
