Sentences with phrase «central love story»

With the humor and sidebars so underwhelming, all that's left to hold your attention is the transparent central love story which makes you wait 90 minutes for a happily - ever - after ending you saw coming practically from the opening credits.

But it's the soaring central love story that makes the film sing: this is an old - school romance, all lingering glances and bold declarations, petticoats, pouting and heaving machismo.

Titanic - The central love story is deliciously syrupy, as crowd - pleasing as its inevitable show - stopping finish that, despite said inevitability, is a reality we don't want to face: What if Billy Zane survives?

Unlike most coming - of - age stories, which focus on boys, Lady Bird's central love story is mother - daughter.

Homophobia, racism, fascism, paranoia — Del Toro combines these themes behind the central love story to illustrate how in times of oppression, standing up for what's right often requires subversion.

But that gives a disservice to Hossein Amini «s taut, Elmore Leonard - ish script, that gives texture to parts that needed none, to the simultaneously minimalist and multi-faceted central performance from Ryan Gosling, to the sweetness of that central love story (the film is as much rom - com, or at least rom, as it is a thriller).

Everything in the film, she says, comes back to «the central love story» between Marion and Christine, mother and daughter.

The film's downside — besides having no visual flair regarding the showcasing of tulips — is that the central love story feels rushed and empty.

But she and del Toro bolstered the central love story by populating the film with side characters, such as Octavia Spencer's Zelda and Michael Shannon's villainous Strickland, who talk a lot.

Romance Writers of America, the leading voice of the genre, define romance as having a central love story, and an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.

Touches of romance, sure, but at least in the opening book, the story can't center on a central love story and hold for the rest.»

Be an original romance novel or novella with a central love story (or an original commercial fiction novel with elements of romance) and have a resolution of the conflict that is emotionally satisfying, optimistic and / or a «happy ever after» ending.

The submission must be a story that has potential to lead - up to a completed original romance novel or novella with a central love story (or an original commercial fiction novel with elements of romance) and have at least a hint of conflict that by the end of a completed novel, would have to have an emotionally satisfying resolution, optimistic and / or a «happy ever after» ending.

The bastion of romance - writing - Romance Writers of America - says it this way: «Two basic elements comprise every romance novel: a central love story and an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.»