On top of this unfair truth comes the almost mean-spirited design of romance that makes the most dangerous and exciting qualities for sexual attraction the exact worst qualities for long-term parenting partnerships.
Fenkart and Boswell conduct a spirited Romeo and Juliet romance while vocalizing beautifully on such numbers as "The Music of My Soul" and fending off fervent opposition from her brother (Rogers) and his mother (Johnson).
A reluctant Christmas-tree seller finds renewed holiday spirit and new romance with a repeat customer, but a mean-spirited executive threatens to shut down her family's business.
It comes close in the high-spirited song, dance and romance swirling around the annual Christmas Ball of Fezziwig (Daniel Marcus), the good-hearted banker who lives to regret starting Scrooge on his career.
The tale unfurls at Pemberley, ancestral home of Fitzwilliam Darcy (Danny Gavigan), the snobbish but handsome gentleman whose romance with the spirited Elizabeth Bennet was chronicled in "Pride and Prejudice". It is now two years later, and Elizabeth Darcy (Erin Weaver) and her husband are hosting Christmas for their extended family.
Robert Digby's romance with Claire Dessenne, a spirited village beauty, was a form of allied fraternization, not what the next war called collaboration horizontale.
Puccini's ravishingly melancholy work seemed, like many operas of its time, to romance death; Mr. Larson's spirited score and lyrics defy it.
Harrison Ainsworth, in his romance Rookwood (1834), gave a spirited account of a ride by Dick Turpin on his mare, Black Bess, from London to York, but the incident is pure fiction.
There were two minor, obligatory-seeming selections from, yes, Sibelius: the spirited "Mazurka" (Op. 81, No. 1) and "Romance" (Op. 78, No. 2), both written around 1915.
The Romance Writers meeting is a loud, spirited talk shop of about 25 women in an upstairs room of the Pyramid Breweries Alehouse.
In 2010 she returned to her fairy-tale roots as the White Queen in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and portrayed a free-spirited woman afflicted with Parkinson disease in the romance Love and Other Drugs.
