romancer

Those moments didn’t really work dramatically, either, since his Giovanni isn’t zesty, but rather pretty serene and matter-of-fact, mostly sober but a little wry, temperamentally gray — if still a practiced, persuasive romancer.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2023

This year a teenage Chicano romancer from Hawthorne named Omar Banos, just out of high school, went viral, and prompted a major bicoastal bidding war.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2017

Leonardo DiCaprio as an adult is a heartthrob, a smooth talker, a romancer of supermodels.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2016

The Fault in Our Stars, the cancer romancer based on John Green’s best-seller, earned $12.6 million, tumbling 51.6% from its first-day gross.

From Time ● Jun. 8, 2014

He vouched for the flesh-and-blood lamb growing out of a plant, and declared that he had both seen and eaten it—whereby the writer proved himself a somewhat greater romancer than usual.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane

Green and her fellow young romancers put some verve into their scrambled affections.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2017

Carter Stanley’s songs of earthly separation, such as “The White Dove” and “The Fields Have Turned Brown,” and randy romancers, such as “How Mountain Girls Can Love,” were the equals of Monroe’s most sublime work.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 26, 2016

Sofia Vergara is the latest to enter the conversation: In an interview published in Net-a-Porter‎’s the Edit, the Modern Family star came down on the side of the vocal romancers.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2016

A few chapters later she tells Catherine Moreland, in preparation for dumping James Moreland in favour of Frederick Tilney, "after all that romancers may say, there is no doing without money".

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012

Mr. Savile has already won his spurs in this field, but his new tale should place him well in the front ranks of contemporary romancers.

From Verse and Worse by Harry Graham