What the 1960s unleashed in fact was romantic love without an institutional setting.
To put it bluntly, Merida is the first animated princess in major American film history who does not fall in love, who does not act on the basis of romantic motivation, and who does not (mild spoiler alert) choose a handsome mate in the end.
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The Jardin du Luxembourg is no hidden gem, but the elegant park does loom large in the novel's main romantic narrative it's where Marius and Cosette meet, fall in love and rendezvous near the Rue de l'Ouest, now known as Rue d'Assas, in the park's southwest corner.
Perhaps the most compelling storytelling convention with the least relevance to real romantic relationships, love triangles supply melodrama in literature, film, and television with little to no effort.
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Call me a hopeless romantic if you wish, but I am wholeheartedly in love with the blues.
As someone who has tried living as a starving artist, I can attest that there's nothing romantic or noble about being impoverished in pursuit of doing what you love.
Others may view Mud as nothing more than a scruffy murderer on the run, but the kids see him, at least for a while, as a romantic renegade living out a violent adventure in the service of undying love.
Standing in love is, perhaps, a healing notion as we face the romantic onslaught of another Valentine's Day.
"We usually talk about plot--you might say that comedy ends in marriage but that it's about frustrated love and overcoming obstacles to romantic pairing, " says Witmore.
In Paris, she violates yet another social rubric by falling in love with a married man, a well-read, clever romantic who is also a bit of a cad.
Vienna has a youthful side, too, and is visited yearly by backpackers as much as mainline culture aficionados -- something Richard Linklater celebrated in his 1995 film "Before Sunrise, " which charted two strangers falling in love in the course of one day, with Vienna as the romantic backdrop.
Robin Day was hopelessly romantic on the subject, stressing how he'd love to be in Parliament.
Fitting for a band in love with a fuzzed-out sound, something sinister lurks below the seemingly romantic songs.
Their story across both books has as many interpretations as characters: Stuart (pedestrian materialist or honest realist) is the victim (all's fair in love and war) of his best friend Oliver (pretentious parasite or inspired romantic) who steals (wins) his wife, Gillian, and goes to live with her in France.
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