However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

After all, Shelley is no `` orthodox '' or Hellenic Platonist, and even his `` romantic '' Platonism can be distinguished from that of his contemporaries.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

And there is something so wonderfully romantic about it all.

Incidentally, one cannot miss the significance of this gesture, for Dickens reintroduces it associatively in Pip's mind at another moral and psychological crisis -- his painful recognition, in a talk with Herbert Pocket, that his hopeless attachment to Estella is as self-destructive as it is romantic.

Although he is not graced with the subtleties of romantic technique, that's not what an ex-prize fighter is supposed to have, anyway.

`` Donnybrook '' is no `` Brigadoon '', but it does have some very nice romantic background touches and some excellent dancing.

The term is the Old Norse / Icelandic translation of, a neologism coined in the context of 19th century romantic nationalism, used by Edvard Grieg in his 1870 opera Olaf Trygvason.

The 1957 romantic drama film An Affair to Remember involves a couple who plan to meet atop the Empire State Building, a rendezvous that is averted by an automobile accident.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

Her husband Casimir is known for his romantic affairs: after Aldona's death he married three more times.

Thus Dorothy Tutin as Desiree, the touring thesp eventually reunited with her quondam lover, is not the melting romantic of previous productions but a working mother with the sharpness of a hat-pin.

Affectional orientation ( or romantic orientation ) is used both alternatively and side-by-side with sexual orientation.

This is an important concept amongst the asexual community where it is often referred to as romantic orientation and the term affectional orientation is rarely used.

Taking from the fact that amongst this community this is known as the romantic orientation, the prefixes of homo -, hetero -, bi -, pan -, poly -, demi-and a-have been used to form terms such as heteroromantic, biromantic and so on.

One who lacks a romantic orientation, or is incapable of feeling romantic attraction, is known as aromantic.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.

Those accustomed to broader, more romantic statements of the symphony can be expected to react strongly when they hear this one.

Clausewitz espoused a romantic conception of warfare, though he also had at least one foot planted firmly in the more rationalist ideas of the European Enlightenment.

In Criss Cross, Siodmak achieves all these effects with purpose, wrapping them around Yvonne De Carlo, playing the most understandable of femme fatales, Dan Duryea, in one of his many charismatic villain roles, and Lancaster — already an established star — as an ordinary laborer turned armed robber, doomed by a romantic obsession.

This became known as slash from the '/' mark used in adzines to differentiate a K & S story ( which would have been a Kirk and Spock friendship story ) from a K / S story, which would have been one with a romantic or sexual bent between the characters.

Whilst his early work was rooted in traditional late-19th century romantic Italian opera, he successfully developed his work in the ' realistic ' verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.

Bobby is one of the first students to reach out to Rogue and begins a romantic relationship with her.

" Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death ", one of the rare SF stories in which no humans appear, describes an alien creature's romantic rationalizations for the brutal instincts that drive its life cycle.

He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.

It was a popular instrument among the wealthy ; the instrument koto was considered a romantic one.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

The image of Saladin they used was the romantic one created by Walter Scott and other Europeans in the West at the time.

In the novella, however, Cramer proves as deluded a romantic as any hero in one of Scott's novels.

It is often used to characterize a situation in which a romantic relationship has ended, but where one partner still loves the other.

The series also deals with the relationship between Mulder and Scully, a platonic relationship for most of the series that later develops into a romantic one.

Venice has also been described by the Times Online as being one of Europe's most romantic cities.

" Entertainment Weekly named it as one of the Top 10 romantic movies of all time.

), there is an entirely fictional romantic sub-plot with Lord Hay and one of the Duchess ' daughters.

Her husband, though he pretends to deny the reality of the dreams, becomes bitterly jealous, sensing his wife's inchoate romantic feelings for one of the astronauts.

Indeed, according to John Evans, Chaplain of Trinity and Extra Preacher to the Queen, instructions were left with him to reveal after Powell's death that at least one of the romantic affairs of his life had been homosexual.

With all his faults he was a very great writer, and one of the principal pioneers of the romantic movement in Europe.

Ellingson argues that the term " noble savage ", an oxymoron, is a derogatory one, which those who oppose " soft " or romantic primitivism use to discredit ( and intimidate ) their supposed opponents, whose romantic beliefs they feel are somehow threatening to civilization.

And like Jo March, who saw her sisters Meg and Amy involved in `` lovering '' before herself, Henrietta saw her sisters Rachel and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the attraction of suitors, Rachel by Joe Jastrow, and Sadie by Max Lobl, a young businessman who would write her romantic descriptions of his trips by steamboat down the Mississippi.

He again began to play the violin, and tucking the instrument beneath his chin, performed soulful and romantic airs to match the expressions on the faces of the lovely women who gathered to hear him.

A person who feels neither romantic nor sexual attraction is known as an aromantic asexual.

An R-rated romantic comedy about a couple dealing the ups and downs of a long distance relationship while commuting between New York City and San Francisco, the largely improvised film garnered generally mixed reviews by critics, who summed it as " timelier and a little more honest than most romantic comedies.

In the romantic comedy 50 First Dates ( 2004 ), Adam Sandler plays veterinarian Henry Roth, who falls for Lucy Whitmore, played by Drew Barrymore.

The film follows the lives of two seemingly disparate teenage girls who begin a tentative romantic relationship.

The soprano Teresa Stolz ( who later had a strong professional – and, perhaps, romantic – relationship with Verdi ) was at that time engaged to be married to Mariani, but she left him not long after.

He is prone to removing his shirt at the slightest pretext and is said to have had romantic relations with most of the minor female characters who appeared throughout his television career.

As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality refers to " an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectionate, physical or romantic attractions to persons of the opposite sex "; it also refers to " an individual ’ s sense of personal and social identity based on those attractions, behaviors expressing them, and membership in a community of others who share them ".

Valiente offers another explanation for the negative reaction of some neopagans ; that the identification of Lucifer as the god of the witches in Aradia was " too strong meat " for Wiccans who were used to the gentler, romantic paganism of Gerald Gardner and were especially quick to reject any relationship between witchcraft and Satanism.

Hegel's conception of human societies as entities greater than the individuals who constitute them influenced nineteenth century romantic nationalism and its twentieth century excesses.

During the 1980s, Demme had a brief romantic relationship with rock singer Belinda Carlisle, who appeared in his movie Swing Shift.

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

Also in 2004, she portrayed a rising tennis player in the Wimbledon Championships opposite Paul Bettany, who played a fading former tennis star in the romantic comedy Wimbledon.

Her next role was in a leading role opposite Ryan Gosling in the romantic drama All Good Things ( 2010 ) in which she portrays a woman from a run-down neighborhood who goes missing.

Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the BBC Television series adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers ' conception of the ' ideal man ', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.

Romantic friendships were also popular in the U. S. Enigmatic poet Emily Dickinson wrote over 300 letters and poems to Susan Gilbert, who later became her sister-in-law, and engaged in another romantic correspondence with Kate Scott Anthon.

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch ( 27 January 1836 — 9 March 1895 ) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life.