As for romantic love, it was an almost mutually exclusive category of human experience.
Not all of the songs on Other People's Love Songs are about romantic love.
What the 1960s unleashed in fact was romantic love without an institutional setting.
"Romantic love and parental love are overlapping systems, " says Parrott, who has studied jealousy and envy for more than 25 years.
Yet the rousing finish exalts another element of the will to freedom: the power of romantic love to loosen the bonds of indifferent institutions.
Moreover aspects such as mutual care within traditional gender roles and bringing up children as a form of old-age insurance had huge practical importance and were much more important than romantic love.
Lewis, who never anticipated feeling intense romantic love, finds this twist of fate inconceivably cruel: the great experience of his life turns out to be a case of too much, too late.
He was a pope of the pen, holing up in the papal studio where he produced tomes on the life of Jesus Christ and spiritual reflections on the dangers of modern finance and the importance of romantic love.
He has been a pope of the pen, holing up in the papal studio where he produced tomes on the life of Jesus Christ and spiritual reflections on the dangers of modern finance and the importance of romantic love.
Made entirely of pink gold with a diamond touch, the new line celebrates true romantic love or the everlasting bonds of friendship through the graceful intertwining of curves that represent variations on the horizontal eight configuration: the universal symbol for infinity.
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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The risk is that you then feel that love has died because, following the romantic myth, you measure love by its felt intensity.
From my Irish mother I got my love of learning, romantic idealism, introspective nature, and perhaps most importantly, her love of laughter.
Love's initial romantic phase lasts anywhere from 18 months to three years, experts say.
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"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.
Though planning to make a love story based on their own romantic tribulations, they switch to a horror movie after one of the women recounts a nightmare she had and, suddenly, real-life horrors begin to impinge on their idyll.
Robin Day was hopelessly romantic on the subject, stressing how he'd love to be in Parliament.
One wants to love this place with its townhouse setting, romantic lighting and solicitous service.
Call me a hopeless romantic if you wish, but I am wholeheartedly in love with the blues.
Sure, there's an element of magic to a romantic city, but that magic is supposed to beget love or at least the making thereof.
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.
As reliably as autumn brings Orion to the night sky, spring each year sends a curious constellation to the multiplex: a minor cluster of romantic comedies and the couples who traipse through them, searching for 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.
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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Standing in love is, perhaps, a healing notion as we face the romantic onslaught of another Valentine's Day.
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.
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.
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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