romance

"It's all over my social feed. People are in withdrawal," Johanna Sarriot, a writer and co-founder of pop-up romance bookstore Love Love Books in Los Angeles, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

But, as she recounts in “The Only Thing There Is to Want,” her approach to romance retained a frantic, addictive quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The question will be whether the honeymoon turns into a longer romance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The couple celebrated their first anniversary on Woods’ Instagram series, “Regular-ish,” during which they gushed about their romance.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

“Are you trying to arrange a romance for my supercargo?”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Contributors rewrite endings, invent romances or give minor characters their own adventures, then share them online for free.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

Among silver-screen romances, the Blake Lively-led odyssey across time, “The Age of Adaline,” isn’t exactly the most revered.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Gamers could marry villagers in Harvest Moon in 1996, shape emotional storylines in Final Fantasy VII and pursue more complex romances in role-playing games like Baldur's Gate II.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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

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

The more you look into the story, the more romanced you are by them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

‘Rebecca’ A naive Joan Fontaine is romanced by widower Laurence Olivier and menaced by Olivier’s live-in housekeeper, Judith Anderson, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Oscar-winning 1940 suspense tale based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022

Ms. Setouchi described her “Genji” translation as her “life-project,” but said she initially struggled to connect with the book’s female characters, who were alternately romanced and discarded by the young prince.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 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