Sentence examples for romantic setback from inspiring English sources

A galloping beat kicks a rising guitar line higher and higher, transmuting another romantic setback into another undaunted song.

The fictive scream stems from his own real-life reaction to a romantic setback, and it takes place in the same locale, the Black Forest above the village of Ettlingen.

Every romantic setback is an opportunity for a life-changing comeback.

Her songs are plainspoken visions of romantic setbacks -- "You're gone/and there's another song" -- with melodies the Beatles wouldn't disown.

And then, after a couple of additional romantic setbacks at the hands of brainy men, she committed suicide, as if the experience of being ill used by one bookish big shot after another had fatally worn her out.

Personal setbacks and romantic rejection, according to authorities ranging from the Dalai Lama to the editors of CosmoGirl, offer us all opportunities to behave with grace and courage and self-respect.

He writes about the setback, which involved resuming a destructive romantic relationship, in such a way that the reader can feel it coming almost before the author does.

So here's my question for you: as a big "Silver Linings Playbook" champion, do you think last night's pair of losses to "Les Mis" counts as a setback for David O. Russell's crazy-person romantic comedy?

But somehow, my eclectic wardrobe was regrettably far from Manolo-and-Birkin chic, my romantic life turned somewhat tepid and, compounding those setbacks, my income failed to finance nights at Bungalow 8 or brunches at Balthazar on any regular basis.

Showered with honors from the time he was in his teens, J. M. W. Turner had few setbacks in his long career as England's finest Romantic landscape painter.

She acknowledged having some initial setbacks, including Hollywood execs who suddenly doubted her credibility as a romantic leading lady.