The relationship was a brief encounter with one of my teammates.

NPR: 'Out of Bounds': Gay, Closeted and In the NFL

He'd been tricked into marriage after a brief encounter with the beautiful and soulless socialite Sylvia (Rebecca Hall), the ceaselessly disparaging virago of a wife who will haunt his life.

WSJ: Television Review: The Battlegrounds of Love and War

Later, in one tidal wave of a night, he comes on to a woman in a bar, gets hoofed in the face by her boyfriend, swings by a gay club for a brief encounter (any port in a storm), and then rounds off the evening with a nice warm threesome.

NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered

The goal of the advert was to restore the passion and romance to the railway, to scrub out memories of Hatfield, delays and commuting and replace them with a taste of Brief Encounter.

BBC: Ad Breakdown's review of 2005