Sentences with phrase «of failed romances»

This opens up into fractured flashbacks of her failing romance with the author in question.

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Despite the love and romance felt by most engaged couples, the harsh reality is that nearly half of all marriages fail.
The emotional trauma that accompanies a failed romance is nothing short of jarring.
Film, TV and novels bombard us with idealistic images of romance and the «perfect» relationship, and these things set us up to fail.
It is the best way to pass the romantic dates, when the romance of the office does not work was for you and has failed.
Furthermore, it fails to capture many of the complex features of romance in social networks, like love.
From dating tips to relationship fails, BuzzFeed's articles are rich with information and entertainment on the subject of romance.
Your love and romance with your dream - woman must be free of any misunderstandings, and must mot fail in 2 - 3 years but shall last for ever.
The movie goes everywhere but up, failing to generate interest in the longevity of two annoying characters who insist on making a bad situation worse for themselves, with the production insisting it's creating something of a romance when it's actually inspiring a headache with this achingly insipid effort.
However, the film that speaks ounces about romance fails to bring in the charm of old tale.
It is easily the director's lowest - aspiring piece, a miserable bit of landscape pornography bound to a somehow more miserable pair of sweaty romances with a ridiculous mystery subplot that completely fails to distract from the picture's shapeless awfulness.
Detailing the romance between big - hearted, aimless, aspiring kickboxer Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack in his quintessential role), and the bright, socially awkward valedictorian with family problems (Ione Skye, who somehow failed to become the biggest star in the world on the back of this), Crowe never once subscribes to stereotypes or cliches, following an authentically stunted, awkward romance that makes the heart swoon more than once; few filmmakers have captured the stomach - churning thrill of first love better.
Bill Murray tries to act as FDR, but struggles even with the accent, occasionally lapsing in a Colonel Sanders - style drawl, and fails to find any romance or compassion in this lazy demonisation of the great man.
So while the subdued emotions of the central romance fail to live up to Giroux's arresting visual technique, the film delivers unexpected last - gasp intrigue in the doomed marriage that started it all.
Most of the famous faces are little more than cameos, and so you will have to spend more time with Coop's (Michael Showalter) failed attempts at romance (with Lake Bell) than anybody wants to, but there are so many distractions from the «plot» of «First Day of Camp,» that the piece rarely drags.
The director's period romance rarely features in discussions of his greatest work — it even failed to crack the top 20 in our recent ranking of his films — and yet it is full of his trademark themes and stylistic flourishes.
Rather than begin with a meet - cute or charming first date, we find our leads in the middle of failed relationships, dealing with the awkwardness of romance gone wrong.
She is a contributor to the anthologies When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School, The Dictionary of Failed Relationships, Where Love is Found: 24 Tales of Connection, Sex and Sensibility: 28 True Romances from the Lives of Single Women and A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty - Five Years of Star Wars.
Self - publishing was not a well - regarded path to success, and it indicated some kind of author failing or eccentricity — whereas today, romance authors are by far the most successful indie authors and lead the charge in innovation in marketing and promotion for self - published titles.
Marriage plots simmer in the background of the story, particularly in the failed romances of Elizabeth Philpot's sister Margaret (who is herself a novel reader and Jane Austen fan).
Numerous studies have been conducted on how books fare at different price points, even within the genre - based breakdown: a book of a certain word count will sell really well at one price if it's a crime thriller by a bestselling author, for example, but at the same price may fail abysmally if it's a beach - read romance by an unknown author.
Because if romance is currently the hottest genre, and most of the top authors are female, women aren't exactly failing at writing, are they?
(And yes, many asked how Adler's administration could have failed to foresee the romance readership's avid levels of activity.)
Job stress, money problems, expensive housing, and failed romances are sometimes a result of forces outside of our control, but sometimes a consequence of our location.
A number of people over the years have tried to make claims on travel insurance policies, claiming that a failed romance in France led to a broken heart.
The city is Chicago, the dreams are all - American and the memories those of a nostalgic past tempered by an artist who is well aware, as Alex Kotlowitz writes in the book's introduction, that «Chicago is a city of romance and optimism alongside the failed and the fragile.»
In the last year of two, a romance notion that has permeated the pop culture and can fail to tell the entire scope -LSB-...]
In the last year of two, a romance notion that has permeated the pop culture and can fail to tell the entire scope of what people can experience.
Some of us may not know what we truly want or even what to look for in another person, while others may get swept away by romance and fail to see if the signs of trustworthiness are present.
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