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Petrolhead sci-fi romp Mad Max: Fury Road and love story Carol are the movies currently picking up the most social media attention from the Cannes film festival, according to new research.
The film is a daft romp in which a Frenchman from the south, to his horror, is sent by his office to live and work among the Ch'tis.
Related: The Royals: guaranteed to be the trashiest thing on TV The Royals, a 10-part royalty romp (yes, you can actually use the word "romp" for this show) on E!, is based on a fictional royal family with more than a few similarities to our own and plays out like The Tudors, if it were written by a team of overdramatic 17-year-old Gossip Girl fans.
When word broke several years back that Quentin Tarantino was working on a second world war romp in which a platoon of Jewish American soldiers set out to kill Hitler, not everyone was convinced it was a good idea.
Mr Hume will romp home in Foyle, while Seamus Mallon, the deputy SDLP leader, should hold onto Newry and Armagh.
Adaptation's interpretation of Susan Orlean's Orchid Thief is my nomination for the oddest film version; and, until I looked on YouTube, it was a source of enduring regret that I'd never seen the musical version of Moby Dick, a maritime romp set in a swimming pool at a girls' boarding school.
As we described it last year before it had a UK home: "The Affair is, at various junctures, an angsty relationship drama, a steamy extramarital sex romp and a murder mystery, with the twist that the second half of each episode is seen from Wilson's character's point of view, suggesting that she's a less willing participant in the fling".
Ordinary film-going audiences in America might know him best for "Leaving Las Vegas", but the crowd assembled tonight hoots louder for "Timecode", an incredibly ambitious and experimental romp , celebrating its eighth anniversary this week".Timecode" is a tragicomic narrative, set in a rundown Hollywood office, composed entirely of four moving images each shown on one-quarter of the screen.
The outcome defied the projections of almost all opinion pollsters, who expected Mr Sánchez Ceren to romp home in the second round with an even bigger margin than the ten percentage-point lead he took in the first round on February 2nd.
Beginning with the opening ceremony, a boldly political romp through British history, the games produced a rare bout of national self-analysis.Another reason for the glut of sporting talk has to do with changes in the media market.
Under Myanmar's first-past-the-post electoral system the NLD would romp home in 2015 if it were to repeat its by-election victories at the national level.
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The word "romp" functions primarily as a noun referring to a period of boisterous play or a lighthearted journey. It can also function as a verb , meaning to play about energetically. As confirmed by Ludwig AI, "romp" is correct and usable in English.
Expression frequency: Very common
