Sentences with phrase «in a storybook romance»

In his deeply confessional essay «The Crack - Up,» Fitzgerald offers this opening phrase, «Of course all life is a process of breaking down... «Here is a man born to the working class, rocketed to riotous stardom and literary fame, swept up in a storybook romance with Zelda who would become his wife, and then caught in a downward spiral.

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There was always a sense of storybook romance in the first two films, and

There was always a sense of storybook romance in the first two films, and Before Midnight shatters that by letting the real world, with all of its messy and volatile emotions, in for a spell.

A by - product of pandering to a young, young audience, its biggest sin is that it alleges a greater basis in reality than its more «adult» contemporaries: The movie endeavours to give credence to the familiar tropes of storybook romance and rags - to - riches by applying them to the politicized zoo known as high school.

Guests are assigned an Austenian surname, get to dress in all sorts of period costumes, and pursue a storybook romance with paid actors.

But there's a thirst in the romance community for the sort of immersion in a storybook world that, if well - executed, would be welcomed.