Sentence examples for straightforward romance from inspiring English sources

It's also a straightforward romance story in which parents, studies and careers don't feature.

And then, completely without thinking about it, I started writing a novel, a very straightforward romance, and I was very lucky that it got published.

Phoenix's sixth album is also one of their best a romantic and neon-hued love letter to Italy and Europe in general, emphasizing the French pop aesthetes' capacity for evoking straightforward romance and starry-eyed wonder.

But their growing intimacy is nothing so straightforward as a romance, though it excites the sharp-eyed village gossips, who are already whispering about Mary Pascoe's illness.

There has been enough straightforward melody and romance to let some of Mr. Waits's songs, like "Ol'5555" and "Downtown Train," be shined up and turned into pop hits by the Eagles or Rod Stewart.

Naturally, some writers who devote themselves to crafting straightforward thrillers (or romances, or fantasies) take issue with the "literary" distinction, because it undermines the value of their own work.

Academic wooing makes other forms of romance seem straightforward in comparison.

Ben Lee, from Australia, plays straightforward, good-natured songs about romance.

Instead of offering straightforward story songs about doomed romance, he colors his lyrics with abstract thoughts, some with psychedelic overtones or musings on unconventional themes like the origin of the universe.

McCusker also opined that the serial's romances were "relatively straightforward affairs"; but thought all that changed with the Frank/Roo/Bobby storyline.

A slightly soft adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's hard-fisted novel; it eschews the politics of an American fighting for a partisan unit in the Spanish civil war for some straightforward derring-do and traditional Hollywood romance.