Sentence examples for straight romance from inspiring English sources
"Now they're probably taking up the spot of somebody who, 10 years ago, would have been writing straight romance".
"Sometimes it can be a mystery, others a straight romance," she said, but the story is always more important than the publisher.
The movies were especially important if you grew up in a rural outpost like Sodus, New York, where Ashbery spent his childhood; they were more important still if you were gay, since they brought to you, sitting in the dark, an entire palette of suppressed desire masquerading as straight romance.
Straight romance is too easy, too dramatically slack, too impediment-poor, although both Like Crazy (2009) and Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise films have made great use of geographical displacement, a problem lifted for the third film in the series, Before Midnight, which is released this week.
McGraw is intending to take legal action against Harner, who has pulled the book from retailers since McGraw first posted about the situation on Facebook, along with her Deuce Coop series, which was revealed to be similar to Opal Carew's Riding Steele novel, again a straight romance turned into a gay one.
The film can be accused, not unfairly, of using an ill gay man as a storytelling prop for a straight romance.
The path of true love runs from 1940s Havana to New York and back, with switchbacks and musical interludes in this animation, whose bebop score and loving craftsmanship to history elevate what could otherwise be a straight showbiz romance.
For better and worse, straight screen romances have always reflected the gender and sexual attitudes of their times.
There were newly famous queer guys on television, advising straight guys on romance and life.
A thriller, "The Woods," went straight to DVD. "Romance" faced the same fate.
