romancer

A serial romancer, Mr. Bacharach was married four times — including once to the glamorous actress Angie Dickinson.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

By the time the band played “Maps,” its influential 2003 romancer, in the waning summer sunlight, I was a puddle.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

What’s occurred in the 15 months since has catapulted a 19-year-old Hawthorne romancer with a funny Twitter handle to the role of heartthrob musical auteur able to sell out a club tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2017

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

Whether the poet followed the romancer or the chronicler in his conception of a dramatic character, he at the first step struck into that undeviating track of our humanity amid the accidents of its position.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

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

Classical and Romantic poets, romancers and historians, when they slip into misery-mongers, are equally the objects of his denunciations.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various