In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.

The moods of the book change rapidly too ; a single book might have sections of erotica, thriller, comedy, psychology, romance, philosophy, and detective in it — not mixed together, but standing side by side with only a chapter number, if that, between them.

As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered one million dollars to Elizabeth Taylor if she would star ; she accepted, and costs for Cleopatra began to escalate, aggravated by Richard Burton's on-set romance with Taylor and the surrounding media frenzy.

TV Guide awarded the film three out of four stars, calling it " an engrossing, if occasionally ludicrous, hit tearjerker " and " a great campy romance.

The planetary romance, a story set primarily or wholly on a single planet and illustrating its scenery, native peoples ( if any ) and cultures, offers considerable scope for science fantasy, in the sense of fantasy rationalized by reference to science-fictional conventions.

For two years they have a committed if chaste romance, which they keep hidden from everyone they know.

Moral truth cannot be gleaned because Ambrosio was destroyed by spiritual beings, and no earthly being can sufficiently oppose the “ power and cunning of supernatural beings .” Scenes of grotesquery and horror abound, which are a proof of “ a low and vulgar taste .” The character of Ambrosio is “ impossible ... contrary to nature .” Coleridge argues that the most “ grievous fault ... for which no literary excellence can atone ” is that “ our author has contrived to make of enchantments and witchcraft ‘ ‘ pernicious ’ ‘, by blending, with an irreverent negligence, all that is most awfully true in religion with all that is most ridiculously absurd in superstition ,” commenting with the immortal line that “ the Monk is a romance, which if a parent saw in the hands of a son or daughter, he might reasonably turn pale .” Coleridge finishes the piece by explaining that he was “ induced to pay particular attention to this work, from the unusual success which it has experienced ” and that “ the author is a man of rank and fortune.

Romantic novels are sometimes marketed as erotica —- or vice versa —- as " mainstream " romance in recent decades has begun to exhibit blatant ( if poetic ) descriptions of sex.

A soft, tender waltz, Riley writes that the song " extends the romance from ideals of emotional honesty out into issues of conditioned conformity (' From fixtures and forces and friends / That you gotta be just like them ')... in ' Spanish Harlem Incident ,' using flattery as a front for the singer's own weak self-image ; in ' To Ramona ,' he's trying to save his lover from herself if only because he knows he may soon need the same comfort he's giving her.

As if Surdas attained a mystical union with Lord Krishna, which enabled him to compose the verse about Krishna's romance with Radha almost as he was an eyewitness.

Iamblichus was the author of the ( Babyloniaka, " Babylonian History "), a romance novel in Greek, which, if not the earliest, was at least one of the first productions of this kind in Greek literature.

The Peredur of Welsh romance differs from the Coeling chieftain if only in that his father is here called Efrawg rather than Eliffer and there is no sign of a brother called Gwrgi.

Bécquer was believed to have had a romance with another girl named Elisa Guillén shortly before the marriage, which is also thought to have been arranged ( if not somewhat forced ) by the parents of the girl.

Others say that " the borderline between fantasy romance and romantic fantasy has essentially ceased to exist, or if it's still there, it's moving back and forth constantly ".

You will again tell me that a human being cannot be so wicked, and I will reply that if you can believe in the existence of all the villains of tragedy and romance, why wouldn't believe that there was a Pechorin?

Guthrie is probably best known for her 1986 dance anthem " Ain't Nothin ' Goin ' on But the Rent ", a self-written and-produced track which garnered some controversy for its misandric and materialistic lyrics such as: " You've got to have a j-o-b if you want to be with me / No romance without finance ".

In chivalric romance the motif appears in recognizable if rationalized form in Roswall and Lillian.

His tale is an epic romance, which, if completed, would probably have been longer than rest of the Tales combined.

It was perhaps forgotten that Brenton, shortly before, had written a challenging play about the biblical figure of Saint Paul and a nimble romance about the love affair between the 12th century theologian Pierre Abelard and his attractive young student Heloise, suggesting a broadening of Brenton's political outlook if not a Damascene conversion.

All in all, it is a poetic as well as a romantic tale, notwithstanding its constant realism, and the note of poetic romance upon which it ends is a logical conclusion, though the reader will be a good guesser if he has an inkling of what that end will be before he reaches it.

To successfully achieve their goal, Ayer suggested that they reinforce the relationship if diamonds with love and romance.

Many years later, Kennedy wrote to a newspaper that a photographer, taking pictures of Miss Cantrell and him leaving a restaurant together asked if he could " hint at a romance ".

However, the Order of Calatrava owes its origin not to any deliberately prepared plan, but to fortuitous circumstances, the recital of which would seem to be mere romance if the teller, Rodrigo of Toledo, did not add that he himself had known in his youth the hero of the story.

They have a whirlwind romance but break up when Steven can't decide if he is in love with her.

To do so, something was necessary beyond volunteering because there was little glamour or romance in the European war ; ;

What small story there is contains a chaste romance and lots of references to the lessons to be learned from " this strangely innocent but tragic creature.

Although she is unhappy at this rejection there are hints of a possible romance between her and a thief throughout the mini-series.

He points to the fact that in The Shrew, there is only eleven lines of romance between Tranio and Bianca, but in A Shrew, there is an entire scene between Kate's two sisters and their lovers.

Also, there were a number of ten-cent, paper covered books of the period that featured medieval romance stories and soap opera-ish tales.

This toned down after only a few years, but there have been occasional hints of a possible romance.

Avalon also plays a role in non-Arthurian French literature, such as Li coronemenz Looïs ( in which appears the phrase por tot l ' or d ' Avalon " for all the gold of Avalon "), the stories of Holger Danske, who was taken there by Morgan le Fay in a medieval romance, and in the story of Melusine.

Moreover, it should be noted that, until the 19th century, Ottoman prose did not contain any examples of fiction ; that is, there were no counterparts to, for instance, the European romance, short story, or novel ( though analogous genres did, to some extent, exist in both the Turkish folk tradition and in Divan poetry ).

A manuscript of the romance in the city of Turin contains a prologue to the story of Huon de Bordeaux in the shape of a separate romance of Auberon, and four sequels, and there are later French versions as well.

In the poem, Robert I's character is a hero of the chivalric type common in contemporary romance, Freedom is a " noble thing " to be sought and won at all costs, and the opponents of such freedom are shown in the dark colours which history and poetic propriety require, but there is none of the complacency of the merely provincial habit of mind.

And then there was some real emotion to it with the relationship between the father and the son and the romance aspect.

In many romance languages, there are the terms quincena ( or quince días ) in Spanish and Galician, cwindexéna ( Venetian ), quindicina Italian, quinzena ( Portuguese and Catalan ), and quinzaine ( French ), all meaning " 15 days " ( because of inclusive counting ); in Italian is also in use the word " bisettimanale " with the same meaning of fortnightly.

But to to complicate matters there are novels written in the romance tradition by novelists like Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Meredith.

Once there, romance is in the air until Jan stumbles upon a copy of Rex's sheet music.

As the romance tours industry has grown, there have been an increasingly higher number of success stories, such as that of Ukrainian mail order bride Lera Loeb.

Clive Starr accepted that Declan was straight and there could be no romance between them.

While the majority of romance novels meet the stricter criteria, there are also many books that are widely considered to be romance novels that deviate from these rules.

Although most romance novels are about heterosexual pairings there is a sizeable amount of romance novels that deal with same-sex relationships.

As a poem, it deserves no place " because there " is no romance about the Indian.

The term itself dates at least as far back as 1980, as shown in a Dragon magazine article by Jean Wells and Kim Mohan which includes the following statement: " There is great potential for more than hacking and slashing in D & D or AD & D ; there is the possibility of intrigue, mystery and romance involving both sexes, to the benefit of all characters in a campaign.