Sentences with phrase «of romantic person»

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Upon closer inspection of the Mob Wars» message boards, they realized that the game was enabling people to initiate long - distance friendships as well as romantic relationships.

Those who identify as bisexual may only be attracted to people who identify as men or who identify as women, those who are pansexual, like Monáe, develop a romantic or physical attraction regardless of a person's gender.

Singles Day was begun by Chinese college students in the 1990s as a version of Valentine's Day for people without romantic partners.

Amazon's Camperforce The video editing makes it look bleak — I'm sure some of the people's financial situations are — but traveling around the country in your RV picking up some seasonal work here and there has a certain romantic appeal.

Developers at the time could access virtual anything of any value that a person's friends had posted on the social network: her hometown, current city, events and location check - ins; her interests, groups and all the pages she'd liked; her relationship statuses with romantic partners, friends and family; her birthday, activities, work history and political and religious affiliations; and her photos, notes and videos.

Love looks past a person's superficial attributes and aims to learn the complex layers of a romantic partner's heart and soul.

But what is the reason for those who propose to ditch the conjugal understanding of marriage and replace it with a conception of marriage as sexual - romantic domestic partnership (what one opponent of the conjugal conception describes as your relationship «with your Number One Person»)?

When this sentiment is said out loud in groups of Christians, it's usually assumed to be: A) highly sarcastic (as people bemoan their romantic lives and their curse of this «gift» from God); B) highly ironic (as people are obsessively on the lookout for their future spouse);.

This atomistic solution is a romantic illusion, for persons are made in and for relation, and anyone who imagines himself to be self - sufficient is simply oblivious to the network of relations in which his being consists.

But because all of this is at a rather nebulous level of experience, it seems to many people to be either wishful, romantic thinking or weak by comparison with the tough, pragmatic, hard - nosed realism of action.

Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective desire for the same sex (whether that desire is relational, romantic, or sexual), in place of the clear definition of our sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.

In romantic love there is merely an added component to the relationship, an emotional intimacy that requires vulnerability and the extra work of carrying a part of another person inside of you.

According to this story in the LA Times, each hour - long episode of the show — which will debut in 2014 — will «visit a different congregation at churches across the U.S. in order to find the perfect romantic partner for a preselected single person» (a person, who, presumably, has not kissed dating goodbye).

At the same time, much postmodern thought perpetuates Romanticism's narcissistic glorification of emotion and irrationality, except now without the romantics» esteem for tradition and the people.

About 15 percent of the people in her study had marriages that remained intensely romantic even after 20 or 30 years.

He had shed any romantic notion of the monk as a cowled figure padding about a cloister garden and had come to define the monk, as he did in a talk he gave just weeks before his death, as a «marginal person who withdraws deliberately to the margin of society with a view to deepening fundamental human experience» (cf. Asian Journal, 1973, p. 305).

I can't believe that God would expect gay people to live lonely lives and never experience the joy of a romantic relationship.

These are all ways God keeps His promise that He will finish the good work He started in His people — people of all shapes, sizes and romantic statuses.

Every student of literature goes through a phase of romanticizing the Romantics — memorizing «The Raven» even when it's not been assigned, keeping a copy of Leaves of Grass on one's person at all times, feigning interest in Moby Dick, resolving to name one's first child Pearl, writing Emerson quotes on note cards and sticking them all over the place.

I didn't want to volunteer to shut out romantic love from my life — the beautiful union of physical and spiritual intimacy that straight people took for granted as a potential blessing life might grant them — by committing to celibacy, and I thought the positive, self - loving thing to do was to accept myself.

To avoid being mistaken for gay, these days many self - proclaimed straight people — men especially — settle for superficial associations with their comrades and reserve the sort of costly intimacy that once characterized such chaste same - sex relationships for their romantic partners alone.

First tale: A tenured sociologist at a prominent research university, with a couple of books under his belt on related subjects, publishes the first - ever research, using a nationally representative sample, on the young - adult outcomes for kids raised by people who have same - sex romantic relationships.

Before we can explain why persons might be persuaded by Christian theism rather than, say, Romantic harmony with nature or Nietzsche's defiant assertion of the self's powers, we have to understand how any of those systems could articulate ways that persons actually live.

The earliest streams of Romantic modernism found this source in a high view of Nature, with the person as part of the natural order.

Broadwell is the author of Petraeus» biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, and was embedded with him in Afghanistan where rumors of something romantic between the two were common but dismissed by people who knew them well.

Our new world variety of Christian establishment has enormous staying - power because it is part and parcel of our whole inherited «system of meaning,» a system intermingling Judeo - Christian, Enlightenment, Romantic - idealist, and more recent nationalistic elements so that even learned persons have difficulty distinguishing them.

First tale: A tenured sociologist at a prominent research university, with a couple of books under his belt on related subjects, publishes the first - ever research, using a nationally representative sample, on the young - adult outcomes for kids raised by people who have same - sex romantic....

And if you think about it, a person has a more difficult time explaining romantic love, for instance, or beauty, or the Trinity, than the gospel of Jesus.

Tragically, this has been the assumption of most Western people who have lived after the romantic rebellion against the Enlightenment, when poetry, the primary language of myth, retreated more and more into»» (the) paltry ego, (humanity's) often empty and always cramped ego..»

And with 22 % of people admitting that their romantic evening has resulted in «eating too much» we've kept these recipes indulgent yet light, so nothing will get in the way of your sexy evening ahead.

That said, being the pinnacle of maturity that I am, when it came time a few weeks ago to meet her mysterious (yet real) new boyfriend, Bobby, I took it upon myself to make a meal reminiscent of something we ate together during our trip, on a night that remains, perhaps to this day, one of the most romantic evenings I've ever spent with another person.

Translated from the French, the novel is at once a romantic comedy and a comedy of errors — two people from different worlds coming together in a small French town immersed in the culture of food.

Delirious after such an indulgent feast, I couldn't help but recall a bit of advice Boulud had mentioned when we first talked about this whole thing: «If you're only two people having a romantic picnic, you want to not bring too much food.

This can be especially challenging since many people are used to celebrating with romantic restaurant dinners, boxes of chocolate and glasses of wine.

Most people would have included the likes of Newcastle, Norwich, Brighton and Sheffield Wednesday, and some of the more romantics within the Leeds fan base might have stuck in Leeds in through the back.

Now that everyone can, perhaps we need to consider whether we're ready to create a society that accepts, includes and validates all ways of living — coupled or not — and doesn't privilege people solely for their romantic and sexual life.

The idea of a romantic partner is faintly alluring even still, but the knowledge of what modern relationships are about, and what modern people seem to want out of life makes me just shrug and say:

In light of the exhaustive research my co-author and I did on the parenting marriage model in The New I Do, I've come to appreciate the many ways people arrive to parenthood and the many creative ways couples are parenting once their romantic and sexual relationship is over — like actress Maria Bello's thoroughly modern take on co-parenting.

I think that some people just see the wedding day and all the romantic aspects of it.

Going through a health problem where you think a person that loves you unconditionally and will be there for you like the men in the romantic movies us females watch, is one of the hardest things I have had to recover from.

Bello has a romantic, sexual relationship with Clare and a nonromantic, nonsexual relationship with Dan, the father of Jackson — and a lot of other important people in her life.

We all have feels about people who post their every romantic detail online, even if we aren't necessarily aware of or don't pay attention to what research has to say about it — they aren't really all that happy, they're narcissistic, they're insecure, they need validation from others, yada, yada, yada.

Grief isn't unique to people experiencing the death of a loved one — it also comes from divorce, often considered the most stressful situation after death; the end of a relationship, romantic or not; an illness or disability; disenfranchisement or abandonment by a loved one, such as a parent; the loss of a job; abuse; growing up with an incarcerated, mentally ill or addicted parent or loved one.

People experience all sorts of heartbreak that has nothing to do with romantic love.

Still, I have heard of people who are not romantic partners wed just to have children with the benefits of marriage, such as a gay man and a lesbian, so who knows how popular it is?

OK, I get it — for some people, even people who say they don't want anyone to make a big deal out of day may indeed feel bad if something romantic doesn't happen.

For so long I thought of romantic love as a virtue, a moral triumph, a reward for people who made good life choices.

While no one would promote divorce as being some sort of wonderful event, although it often is the route out of dysfunctional or abusive relationships and can lead to amazing transformations, what these answers illustrate is that perhaps, finally, people are taking off the rose - colored glasses about the institution as well as busting the fairy - tale romantic myths we keep perpetuating about it.

Submission after submission I find myself duped, baffled and / or slightly disgusted by what I am reading, not because I think the mothers in the submissions are sick people, but because I think it's inappropriate to attribute qualities of romantic love to the relationship you have with your son.

People with high self - esteem were not immune to distress in the face of romantic rejection, whether they were rejecter or rejectee, but they were less inclined to assume a lion's share of the blame for the split.