Sentence examples for romantically striking from inspiring English sources

The city and county of Durham have put their joint hat in the ring and would be a worthy winner: the country's most romantically striking capital after Edinburgh has a spiritual and industrial hinterland (think Jarrow, the Venerable Bede) that is ripe for cultural exploitation.

Though he struck out romantically, he was able to convince the film's producers to hire an Indian accountant as his personal character consultant.

For her next trick she picked up two pieces of fool's gold and showed me how to make sparks by striking them together, before urging me up the cliffs in search of Isle of Wight diamonds (or, less romantically, selenite crystals).

Compared to the scenes of sixties protest that remain most romantically legible in the American imagination, contemporary activism strikes many as low stakes and unfocussed.

But his very public relationship with Ms. Bruni, an Italian-born heiress who has been linked romantically with a variety of men — from Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton to former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius — struck many of the French as lacking taste.

In 1967, the same year the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia struck down laws banning miscegenation, Sidney Poitier starred in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" as a black man romantically involved with blond Katherine Houghton.

I know that this will not immediately strike most people as an appealing change, but the simple truth is that while we have continued to bumble along romantically in much the same fashion as always, science has made great strides in understanding the secret springs of attraction.

Strike hard, strike fast.

And more romantically evocative.

Nothing happened romantically.

Are they romantically involved?