The British have a long-standing romantic attachment to rear-guard actions, both military and sporting.
What most students of both sexes really want — as my own students often tell me — is a long-standing, romantic relationship.
It was just like ending a long-standing romantic relationship that's become unhealthy and unproductive, one where you can no longer remember why -- exactly -- it was that you first hit it off but, regardless, the chemistry simply isn't there any more.
Regulars, who keep standing reservations, vie with romantic couples for the 65 seats.
As a consequence of its success, The Social Network's once-impressive poster design is now as much of a cliche as blue and orange colour schemes or romantic leads standing back-to-back.
But Broch, who saw the connection between Romanticism and kitsch as one of inverse proportions, may have come closer to the truth: according to him, kitsch was the dominant style of the nineteenth century (in Germany and in Central Europe), with a few great Romantic works standing out from it as phenomena of exception.
(1) From the way Bonnie describes her feelings here as well as throughout the rest of the article, it becomes apparent that she knows she needs to leave the relationship that she hasa second-order desire to leave it but that her first-order romantic bond is standing in the way of her actual ability to do so.
Walking into the hotel's imposing grounds from the park named after the director, I could imagine it standing in for just about any romantic setting.
They found themselves standing on one of the most romantic riverscapes in the world, watching logs floating past in the rain.
Standing out from the crow may seem romantic in a book but in real life is different and even detrimental if you are not confident enough in yourself and your individuality.
Neither Brady nor his colleagues are very good at doing what photographers do for them: standing outside themselves to articulate the almost Romantic-era daring of their job in a world of increasingly bloodless, prefab industry.
