Mr. Hlinko wants to use romance to enlist foot soldiers for progressive causes.
Byatt has her Victorian poet Randolph Ash use romance to mean both a fantasy about love and a literary tradition.
By the way, as a matter of principal, we left off the Twilight trilogy completely -- not only did we use romance as a criteria, we used quality, too.
Eric Selinger pointed out that politicians used romance as an example of government waste because any discussion of romance novels is sexy and arresting; it generates headlines.
Looking back at the films of the 1980s you can see that Kim Jong-il was not trying to rewrite those rules, but using romance to ensure that citizens followed his agenda.
Grabbing a plastic Strand bookstore bag filled with used romance novels, a few CDs and some old magazines, he strode toward the hulking ship and bounded up a flight of stairs.
"Up in the Air" is an assertively, and unapologetically, tidy package, from its use of romance to instill some drama into the narrative (the book introduces disease instead) and the mope-rock tunes that Mr. Reitman needlessly overuses.
Reviewing the film, adapted by Jason Reitman ("Juno") from the novel by Walter Kirn, in The Times, Manohla Dargis wrote, " 'Up in the Air' is an assertively, and unapologetically, tidy package, from its use of romance to instill some drama into the narrative (the book introduces disease instead) and the mope-rock tunes that Mr. Reitman needlessly overuses".
The New York Times Manohla Dargis especially appreciated the film's strong female roles, noting that "the ferocious Ms. Kendrick, her ponytail swinging like an ax, grabs every scene she's in," but wrote that the film "is an assertively, and unapologetically, tidy package, from its use of romance to instill some drama... and the mope rock tunes that Mr. Reitman needlessly overuses".
For the most part, pinyin uses vowel and consonant letters as they are used in Romance languages (and also in IPA).
The Latin letter x, an abbreviation for ks, was also put to other uses in Romance; in Portuguese, Catalan, Sicilian, and Old Spanish it represents a /sh/ sound, in modern Spanish a strong /h/ sound, more commonly spelled with a j, and in northern Italian dialects, the /z/ sound.
