Sentence examples for romantic separation from inspiring English sources

(108 votes) conscious uncoupling: a divorce or romantic separation by polite mutual agreement.

My grounds for financial divorce echo those of many a romantic separation: my old bank is no longer the one I joined.

The xx sing almost exclusively about matters of the heart (Missing, a track on Coexist, might be the most aching lament on romantic separation I've heard) but their love-lives away from the mic have never been very clearly outlined.

But more memorable are the intimate details and tiny interactions that underlie the big philosophical ideas, like the almost romantic intensity of the separation scene between Wotan and Brünnhilde, or the way that Hagen, saying goodbye to a prostitute after a night of insomnia, touches her shoulder with haunting tenderness.

In other words, it's an ordinary tale of inexperienced, insecure love, with the long separations and romantic, stormy reunions that can prolong relationships or just as easily end them.

Back then, as de Rougemont described in his classic Love In The Western World, adult romantic love became associated with separation from the love "object".

LaBute dramatizes the sin of separation — human beings whose romantic imagination wills them to be strangers to themselves.

For example, I've written previously about the increasing numbers of unconventional romantic-sexual couplings; and also that divorce or separation can be good for your health.

WASHINGTON — Ballet is an art so laden with tradition that today's foremost practitioners all seem at most six degrees of separation from the leading lights of the Romantic period.

I examine these biases as in terms of separation of partner specific idealization from generalized romantic idealization, and also as stemming from personality variables such as narcissism and attachment style.

We would all like to be romantic about this, but there are some harsh realities about separation that I don't think the the nationalists have addressed.