romance

There are limits to the romance of the rental economy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Jeanie helped oversee another dynastic run in the 2000s, when the Lakers added five more trophies—all while carrying on a Hollywood romance with the team’s head coach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Set in Egypt during the 1930s and ’40s, the first entry in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet is a tragic romance between an impoverished Irish writer and the beautiful, mysterious Justine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Rebecca Onion declares that in a crowded field of summer romance series, this is the one that will stand the test of time.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

I was afraid she’d start building an elaborate Romeo-and-Juliet romance about Oscar—just as I once did.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

Some watch for the heartwarming romances, like Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury falling for each other back in 2019, while others prefer intense dramas - we see you 2022 winners Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

In the end, Nick and Charlie decide to give their relationship another shot, confident that their love can defy the conventional wisdom that teen romances rarely last.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

But while Penn's romances have had their well-chronicled highs and lows, his acting career only followed one trajectory: up.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

And she relished that romances are often multicultural—Amanda Elliot’s Hanukkah romance “Love You a Latke” hooked her from the title alone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

But other romances, like this one, are simply short-subject documentaries—lacking traditional narratives and quippy dialogue.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Still, if my nostalgia-clouded memory serves me correctly, our alleged aimlessness and "whatever" philosophy is amply romanced in movies.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

Bergman, who romanced his leading ladies and strip mined his personal demons for material, was hardly the least self-involved of European auteurs, and Hansen-Løve has fittingly responded with her own teasing display of meta-effrontery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2021

But his role as a small-time hood who romanced American ingenue Jean Seberg in Godard's "Breathless" earned him international stardom.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2021

Both of their dating lives made for gossip fodder at the time, by the way, as Damon dated Winona Ryder and Affleck romanced Gwyneth Paltrow.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2021

Woolf began coming in regularly, parking his Stetson on the table and pointing Greenberg’s nose in the Racing Form while he romanced her.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Maria believed she was romancing a prince from Dubai, captivated by his flirtatious smile and declarations of affection he showered on her during live video calls.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Palmer found himself spending time trying to get his expenses cleared through an incompetent bureaucracy, rather than romancing a beautiful girl on a sandy beach.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

But Mosley’s nonagenarian is less interested in corporate intrigue than romancing Oliver’s 93-year-old grandmother, Brenda, in his Upper West Side mansion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

I thought she was just romancing him, kindly playing to his mostly self-promoting immigrant lore, but later she’d showed Mitt, too, kneeling down beside him to watch the men and women busy in the street.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee