She is too much in love with George's memory to return Dobbin's affections.

Following Jos ' entreaties, Amelia agrees to a reconciliation ( when she hears that Becky's ties with her son have been severed ), much to Dobbin's disapproval.

He is a few years older than George but has been friends with him since his school days even though Dobbin's father is a fig-merchant and the Osbornes belong to the genteel class and have become independently wealthy.

CHC purchased Okanagan Helicopters and Toronto Helicopters and merged them with Dobbin's own company, Sealand Helicopters, to form a company named Canadian Helicopters.

Amelia is too much in love with George's memory to return Dobbin's affections.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

Is this not Malraux himself alluding to his own earlier infatuation with the ideological??

This is not to say that the only explanation of the present infatuation with Norman Vincent Peale's `` cult of reassurance '' or the other types of a purely cultural Christianity is the ever-present need for a demythologized gospel.

In Poor Little Rich Girl ( 1917 ) a camera shot tilting sideways is intended to convey delirium, and by 1918 the idea had got to Russia, in Baryshnya i khuligan ( The Lady and the Hooligan ), where the Hooligan's infatuation with the Lady is conveyed by his Point of View of her splitting into a multiply superimposed image.

Chroniclers recorded that John had a " mad infatuation " with Isabella, and certainly John had conjugal relationships with Isabella between at least 1207 and 1215 ; they had five children.

If a Turk says that he is in love ( Aşık ) with somebody, it is not a love that a person can feel for his or her parents ; it is just for one person, and it indicates a huge infatuation.

At about the same time, Baum embarked upon his lifetime infatuation with the theater, a devotion which would repeatedly lead him to failure and near-bankruptcy.

His infatuation with Laura Epps played a great part in his relocation to England and Gambart felt that the move would be advantageous to the artist's career.

The story's impact reflects on the period's infatuation with progress.

Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner, and she was to have a significant and lasting effect on his poetry and his life thereafter.

Cesare Falconi has examined in particular Leo's infatuation with the Venetian noble Marcantonio Flaminio, with Leo arranging the best education that could be offered for the time.

Of this infatuation, Keynes had written " I seem to have fallen in love with Ray a little bit, but as she isn't male I haven't able to think of any suitable steps to take.

They ultimately separated in 1909, partly as a result of Dreiser's infatuation with Thelma Cudlipp, the teenage daughter of a work colleague, but were never formally divorced.

It was partly owing to Sellers ' infatuation with Loren that he split with his first wife, Anne Howe.

Several contemporary sources criticised Edward's seeming infatuation with Piers Gaveston, to the extent that he ignored and humiliated his wife.

By all accounts, James was at first entranced by his bride, but his infatuation evaporated quickly and the couple often found themselves at loggerheads, though in the early years of their marriage, James seems always to have treated Anne with patience and affection.

One of the reasons for its resounding popularity was the public infatuation with aviation in the wake of Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.

In 1902, Modigliani continued what was to be a lifelong infatuation with life drawing, enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti ( Scuola Libera di Nudo, or " Free School of Nude Studies ") in Florence.

Antony ’ s “ obsessive language concerned with structure, organization, and maintenance for the self and empire in repeated references to ‘ measure ,’ ‘ property ,’ and ‘ rule ’ express unconscious anxieties about boundary integrity and violation .” ( Hooks 38 ) Furthermore, Antony struggles with his infatuation with Cleopatra and this paired with Cleopatra ’ s desire for power over him causes his eventual downfall.

But it is to say that this need is far more important for such infatuation than most of the pundits seem to have suspected.

Passionate love is shown in infatuation as well as romantic love.

He has been prone to infatuation ( which is often reciprocated ) ever since being cuckolded by Sir Charles Lytton.

She has an infatuation with Gobo's Uncle Traveling Matt which comes to light while she is telling the story of Uncle Matt's first adventure.

However, at least in one episode ( Chef Goes Nanners ), Cartman develops secret liking for Wendy, which is apparent from the end of episode when Wendy describes her temporary infatuation towards Cartman as ' sexual tension ' and even though Cartman agrees in front of Wendy, he sighs with sorrow alone.

Limerence is sometimes also interpreted as infatuation, or what is colloquially known as a crush ; but in common speech, infatuation includes aspects of immaturity and extrapolation from insufficient information, and is usually short-lived.

' Tennov notes how limerence may dissolve soon after its initiation, as in an early teenage buzz-centered crush ', but is more concerned with the point when ' limerent bonds are characterized by " entropy " crystallization as described by Stendhal in his 1821 treatise On Love, where a new love infatuation perceptually begins to transform ... attractive characteristics are exaggerated and unattractive characteristics are given little or no attention ... a limerent object '.

Ferdinando is aware of the development of his plan because he has been taping all their conversations and has to ward off the help's infatuation with Carmelo.

Hugo is a high-school student, boyfriend of Kim McAfee ( played by Susan Watson on Broadway ), who becomes jealous of Kim's infatuation with rock star Conrad Birdie.

However, he can't bear to admonish her for long as his infatuation runs deep, but he is not nearly as forgiving when it comes to other artists who similarly performed for Germans as he vows to personally strangle National Theater director Jovan Popović.

Hands All Over continues the band's lost love theme, along with songs about infatuation, and was re-released with the song " Moves Like Jagger ", an electropop song featuring Christina Aguilera which represents a drastic change in the band's sound, with more of a dance feel to it.

Shakespeare's sonnets have been described as a " Poetics for Infatuation "; as being dominated by one theme, and ' that theme is infatuation, its initiation, cultivation, and history, together with its peaks of triumph and devastation ' - a lengthy exploration of the condition of being ' subject to the appropriate disorders that belong to our infatuation ... the condition of infatuation '.

Yet it was also Erich Heller who, earlier, in his own youth, had diagnosed the main theme of Tonio Kröger to be the infatuation and entanglements of a passionate heart, destined to give shape to, intellectualize, its feelings in artistic terms.

" Throughout the show, he displays an infatuation with Catherine Duke, and clues are occasionally dropped that point to him being the Unabomber ( which he even confesses to in one episode ).

Kaufman once publicly vowed to never again visit Israel, but in 2002 he retracted that promise to create a BBC television documentary, The End of the Affair, in which he recounted his youthful infatuation with Israel and his eventual disillusionment.

Bergman grew up in a home infused with an intense Christianity, his father being a charismatic rector ( this may have explained Bergman's childhood infatuation with Hitler which later deeply tormented him ).

He reduced the role of Octave, which he played, including Octave's brief infatuation with Christine during the ending.

She often looks worn out, which makes sense given her offscreen responsibilities but works against her tale of courtship, infatuation and the emotional sparks that fly between two gifted, bullheaded artists.

" And if Fascist Italy, among the various Western nations is the one which first wished for a reaction against the degeneration of the materialist, democratic and capitalist civilisation, against the League of Nations ideology, there are grounds for thinking, without even any scintilla of chauvinistic infatuation, that Italy will be on the front line among the forces which will guide the future world and will restore the supremacy of the white race " (" Il Problema della supremazia della razza bianca " Problem of the Supremacy of the White Race, Lo Stato, 1936 ).

Helga is portrayed as being a tomboyish tsundere noted for her obsessive infatuation with Arnold, which she masks with name-calling and taunts.

He befriends yet another pensioner who subsequently dies, and has a brief infatuation with his male therapist ( which he insists is wholly spiritual, not homosexual ).

He is also shown to have his own foibles, such as his infatuation with Miss Poppy, a relationship which left him contemplating resignation at times.

On the other hand, for the first seven seasons of the series, the supposedly psychic Daphne never suspects Niles ' passionate infatuation with her, which is painfully evident to all the other main characters.

She once said that it was her infatuation with the handsome Hollywood actor Joel McCrea which led her into acting.

After a period of Communist infatuation ( which resulted in a few weak novellas that can be labeled as socialist realism period pieces ), Aralica was swept into the vortex of turbulent events known as the “ Croatian spring ” ( 1971 ).

" He is misanthropic, which he attributes to Seymour and Buddy's imposition of their college-age infatuation with Eastern mysticism on him and Franny as children.

The band took its name from the short-lived French art movement Fauvism which was characterised by both its intensity and infatuation with colour.

The plot revolves around Edward II of England's infatuation with Piers Gaveston, which proves to be the downfall of both of them, thanks to the machinations of Mortimer.

Though under half an hour in length, the music ranges widely-from the wild, grotesque and deconstructionist punk rock of " Assassin " and " Seagull " to the almost danceable rhythm and church-like bells of " Dismembered " and several moments of exotic, oriental-styled music which is perhaps due to the influence of band-member Björk's supposed infatuation with the country of Japan at this stage in her life.

Hemingway's later fiction, Benson writes " is like an adolescent day-dream in which he acts out infatuation and, as in Across the River.