romance
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That song helped me find that maybe there was a little river of romance in their imaginations in that moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Can you imagine the L.A. romance “Nobody Wants This” trying to duplicate Silver Lake, Los Feliz or Koreatown in Atlanta?
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
If neither actor makes a strong impression, it’s in part due to the roistering comedy that forms a background to their romance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
For my seventeen-year-old brother, romance was an entirely new experience and a wonderful diversion from the ghastliness of ghetto life.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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And while she knows people watch it for the drama and conversations it sparks, she thinks those are just "added extras" and the romances should be at the centre of the show.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The movie’s sweeping visuals and romantic love story evoked a sentiment similar to 1940s war romances.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 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
In “Conundrum,” Morris claimed that it had “seemed perfectly natural to me to play the girl’s role” in schoolboy romances at Lancing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Sometimes it has to do with her romances, but more often, with some beef she is in with the administration or some colleague.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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Instead, this scrumptious dinner romanced me in an entirely different way.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2023
The great age of rail lasted until the greater age of the automobile, and the airplane, but even as we abandoned the train for our own wheels, we romanced it in our imaginations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
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
He dated models and actresses and romanced his stunning American wife after standing behind her in line to use the phone at Heathrow Airport.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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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
When the press reported that Hall was romancing British horse breeder Robert Sangster, "They were making me out to be the bad one," she says.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2021
Now, stop this romancing and never let it trouble again—ever.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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