Sentences with phrase «romance as an element»

This article centers on bonding and romance as elements that are synonymous with emotional intimacy.

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Let this bar romance you as it echoes an element of the ancient Greeks» concept of Eros: the creative impulse of ever - unfolding nature, igniting the Light of coming into being and bringing order to all things in the cosmos.

Sexuality is a healthy element of adult life at all stages of our maturity and senior citizens are simply just as capable of such inside their romances as your most randy adolescent, at the same time perhaps being a good deal extra cautious.

Dating and Romance should ALWAYS have as sexy element to it!

Taylor begins a romance with Sullavan, who soon joins the three comrades, making the group a jovial, fun - seeking foursome (this plot element bears traces of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, as well as the 1931 film The Last Flight).

As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

For me, it's a hybrid film, because it has elements of romance just as much as those of the thriller, as you say.

ItÆs simplest to read Birth as a ghost story, albeit one where the supernatural elements are brushed under the divan for a metaphysical romance where a woman, never fully recovered from losing her husband, may have conjured his spirit in boy's form.

«The Shape Of Water» is a movie that is truly able to blend the genres of fantasy, romance and other storytelling elements that elevate this movie from, what could easily have been perceived as a cheesy B movie, into a stunning piece of cinema that touches hearts.

While there is a distinct element of romance to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, director Mike Newell (Great Expectations) and his disparate collection of writers — Kevin Hood (A Royal Night Out), Thomas Bezucha (Monte Carlo), and Dom Roos (TV's This Is Us)-- shift the focus from two individuals to the entire society and their island as a collective.

Youth, beauty, and death have long been Gus Van Sant's recurring motifs, but in this terminally whimsical tale of romance between morbid cuties, the elements don't so much flow together into a stirring whole as coagulate into fatuous prettiness.

It does take a while before the thematic material starts to gel, but it does, with such interesting concepts as the fantasy elements that one gleans from porn being akin to those that some get from such films as romances, Barbara's favorite pastime.

A litmus test: if you find that you enjoy revisiting sweeping modern romance films like Titanic and The Notebook, you owe it to yourself to give Somewhere in Time a try, especially as it contains elements that both films have emulated.

The romance that buds between her and Thomas Sharpe is likely the most stupefying element of the film in that it works as well as it does.

For a film mainly guided, stylistically, by feeling more than by thought, Wong Kar - wai's In the Mood for Love opens rather pragmatically: A simple exchange in an apartment hallway between a landlord and her two prospective tenants, Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) and Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), introduces the principal elements of what is, in essence, a straightforward story of star - crossed lovers and their unconsummated relationship — a romance thwarted as much by tragic circumstance as by the story's central cinematic contrivance.

It's a classic film, not a masterpiece by any means, but the elements of mystery, romance, and humor are so strong in all departments, there's few in its class as far as this genre goes.

As the man most likely responsible for the better parts of Prometheus, Spaihts as writer means the sci - fi elements of this labeled «Epic Sci - Fi Romance» are apt to be pretty solid and Tyldum has proven his directing acumen aplentAs the man most likely responsible for the better parts of Prometheus, Spaihts as writer means the sci - fi elements of this labeled «Epic Sci - Fi Romance» are apt to be pretty solid and Tyldum has proven his directing acumen aplentas writer means the sci - fi elements of this labeled «Epic Sci - Fi Romance» are apt to be pretty solid and Tyldum has proven his directing acumen aplenty.

It certainly plays half of the time as a coming - of - age drama with war elements, but in the mix we also find rebel - punk angst, teen romance, quirky comedy, and, perhaps most oddly, a fantasy element involving telepathic connections between characters.

The romance works rather better than the thriller element, as the plot becomes so convoluted and melodramatic it gets rather silly and never seems to be sure whether to takes itself seriously or not.

And we soon realize that Allen has structured «Wonder Wheel» as a «modern» version of a Shakespearean play: complete with all of the Bard's (and Allen's) favorite elements: romance, betrayal, danger, anger and strange family dynamics.

Instead, it is marketed as a kind of middle - of - the - road comedy - romance with horror elements, and while it does contain some rom - com and sitcom elements, the increasingly bleak nature of the storyline will probably turn off audiences for that kind of black material.

Reynolds winds up romancing Arterton's co-accountant Anna Kendrick, after he makes a grave error with Arterton, and while Michael R. Perry's script occasionally feels a little like a talking - animal comedy riff on some of the plot elements in Thomas Harris» novel «Red Dragon,» you might as well steal from the best.

All the elements are in play for a crackling good, Macbeth - like tale about ambitious but fatally flawed characters, but the erratic screenplay by Christopher Kyle lacks confidence as it swings from glossy romance to creepy thriller, leaving us feeling detached along the way.

Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.

However, that might be like saying I didn't enjoy Hitchcock's Vertigo as much as I enjoyed Rear Window, given that My Hope Next Door has just won the 2017 RITA award from Romance Writers of America for Romance with Religious or Spiritual Elements.

Whether it's fan girling over Ada Lovelace by having her as a secondary character in Must Love Breeches, or outright geek references with geek types in her romantic comedy with paranormal elements, Beer and Groping in Las Vegas, or going all Southern steampunk in Steam Me Up, Rawley, she likes to have fun with her romances and hopes her readers do too.

For many authors, whether they are unpublished hopefuls or multi-bestselling veterans, conferences like ThrillerFest — or the recent RWA, Romance Writers of America conference, also held in New York — represent the chance to be at home in their elements without the outside distractions of daily life, as well as the opportunity to hone their crafts in any of the numerous skill building sessions.

All authors, including self - published authors, are welcome, as long as the book is a romance or has strong romantic elements.

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After getting feedback from friends and family, she sent queries to more than 100 agents, but since it was a cross genre story (with elements of romance, suspense and mystery), it didn't fit neatly on retail book shelves and got rejected as a «tough sell.»

Since many video games feature hours upon hours of gameplay, it's nice to have elements of romance between characters, or better yet, you, as the protagonist, choosing who you would like to date in that universe.

Plenty of games already use intimacy, or the emotional connection created for the player between their character and another, as a story element, and romance has been a key driver in game stories and character development, at times even successfully.

His genre of games are VN formatted, RPGs and Sims with some strategy elements and romances, which like bioware, includes all sort of romances, and aimed valiently at women a lot as well as men.