Sentences with phrase «brief romantic encounter»

«A brief romantic encounter could lead to nine months of pregnancy followed by many years of lactation for an ancestral woman, while the man may have «left the scene» literally minutes after the encounter, with no further biological investment.

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(There's a whole other romantic comedy waiting to make a break for it in Kit's brief bull's - eye encounter with a gun salesman played by The Daily Show «s Rob Corddry.)

12:00 N — TCM — Brief Encounter Beautifully understated romantic drama of a chance encounter at a railway station cafe between two married people who know better than to indulge their burgeoning love for each other, but do sEncounter Beautifully understated romantic drama of a chance encounter at a railway station cafe between two married people who know better than to indulge their burgeoning love for each other, but do sencounter at a railway station cafe between two married people who know better than to indulge their burgeoning love for each other, but do so anyway.

Leaving his family and his job, he sets about selling encyclopedias to town locals, including Dylan (Daniel Gillies), a former student who's estranged from his father (Scott Wilson) and sister (Elisabeth Waterston); Alice (Jane Adams), a waitress and single mother with whom he has a brief and awkward romantic encounter; and Drifter (Ian Somerhalder), a musician grieving the death of his brother (Joe Mazello).

Director David Lean's 1949 film The Passionate Friends is an underrated Brief Encounter - style romantic drama, about a woman, Mary Justin (Ann Todd), caught between two men — her older, rich banker husband Howard Justin (Claude -LSB-...]

Haynes was inspired by David Lean's Brief Encounter, a 1945 romantic classic about an emotional affair that similarly begins and ends with the same scene, its meaning deepening the second time.

Seven applicants, mostly from the north - west of England, are chosen, all go through classes conducted by the charismatic teacher Sam Rumbelow, and five are channelled into mini-films that range through a troubled daughter playing Cordelia, a professional Lear, a would - be suicide identifying with the last days of Mussolini, and a sad 40 - year - old romantic casting herself as a working - class Celia Johnson in a deadly serious reworking of Brief Encounter.

In this view, all humans possess specialized adaptive designs for both brief sexual encounters and enduring romantic partnerships.