De Robertis writes with considerable passion and beauty about the kinds of love that Dante finds and, of course, the kinds of sex that she finds.
The justification for this sequel comes with the admission that his considerable love for his father was rivaled by his passion for Franco Harris, the great running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970's.
Mr. Sheng, the central character in "A Pension Plan," is suffering from "a kind of senile dementia" and almost falls in love with his caregiver, who narrates the story with considerable delicacy.
The resulting entertainment is just a little facile at times but the five interconnecting love stories, ending with a wedding amid the monsoon, are encompassed with considerable skill.
In an obvious reaction against this decision finally to commit himself, Goethe shortly afterward fell briefly and passionately in love with an unremarkable young lady, Wilhelmine Herzlieb, extricating himself from the entanglement only with considerable pain.
Then, just as the reader is starting to wonder if Oscar's one-sided love life can fill a whole book, Díaz starts shifting the novel's time scheme around with considerable ingenuity.
Hölderlin was able to revive with considerable success genres of Greek poetry the Horatian ode, the elegy, and the Pindaric ode in German literature and to fuse his love for his native land with the longing for ancient Greece.
It met with considerable acclaim.
And with considerable success.
Elvis, Jr., watches you with considerable gravitas.
