Up top, it's gleaming, but at ground level, it's deeply unromantic.
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What is the most unromantic aspect of collecting Mexican folk art?
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It feels very modern, because she's so unromantic about the world.
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But Mr. Jackson takes an unromantic view of his party's prospects.
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Even so, despite the unromantic setting, it was a completely revelatory experience.
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Is it a head-over-heels celebration of love or an unromantic abomination?
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It corresponds to (unromantic) industries like mining, chemicals, capital goods and heavy transport.
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Regular mezcal, meanwhile, largely remained humble, unromantic, bumpkinly, but with its own mythology.
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And it's not just its reputation as being an unromantic destination that's the problem.
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For many people, the Las Vegas of New York isn't just unromantic, it's downright offensive.
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Yet when they arrive at the courthouse, they're disarmed by just how unromantic it feels.
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I think that it only has to become stagnant or unromantic if you let it.
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That is probably the one unromantic takeaway that the Trump experience has left me with.
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As rising-star origin stories go, this is rather unromantic, but telling of the times.
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The pain of a friend's disapproval is too complex, too unromantic, too real to be anthemic.
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Mr. Hurt's pallor, fearful expression and prominent ears made him an especially feral and unromantic rebel.
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I talked to Britton about the "unromantic" thriller, Debra's perceived naivety, and Julia Roberts' lackluster matchmaking skills.
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But I'm learning, in an unromantic way, that that's how a lot of people get their jobs.
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"It sounds so unromantic, but it is one of the best things you can do," she said.
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Nonetheless, Dr Teachey and Dr Kipping found one promising-looking planet, with the unromantic name of Kepler-1625b.
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I think every unromantic is desperately hoping to be proved wrong — at least, I was one of those.
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It's an unromantic reality made harsher when we spot those over-stylized looks we wish were beach hair.
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How does one navigate feelings of romance in a space that is decidedly — and with good reason — unromantic?
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In a 2008 interview with the Scottish newspaper The Herald, Diski spoke of her calling in unromantic terms.
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This is one corner of the American broom market: the unromantic, inexpensive corner many of us are familiar with.
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Tech Fix This may sound unromantic, but before the internet era, wedding planning was a lot like car shopping.
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Cline's prose is assured and stylish, and she evokes a sweaty, grimy summer on a commune with unromantic precision.
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While she admits that the idea can be unromantic, the principles behind them are simple: It&aposs a protection.
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That much forethought and planning may seem unromantic, but it's worth it to be able to enjoy sex headache-free.
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Director Damien Chazelle keeps his eye on the unromantic details that usually get glossed over in retellings of historical events.
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The last we see of Francesca, she's sharing a bed with Dev, but the vibe is distinctly unromantic and nonsexual.
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"Unromantic as it is, it isn't a decision to overthink or overproduce, it's a decision about ruthless efficiency," he said.
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"It's not unromantic; we're interested in the same things: ecosystems and how humans use and interact with them," she says.
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Spring may have removed your rose-colored glasses, but even his unromantic vision leaves you wishing you had been there.
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It is based on the lie that women are just as eager as men to have unromantic, unattached, transactional sex.
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And I'm sure if you were there when our seven-minute ceremony took place, you'd say it was anything but unromantic.
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Writing a relationship contract may sound calculating or unromantic, but every relationship is contractual; we're just making the terms more explicit.
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In fact, it's only in the last century that they became an engagement ring staple, and the reason why is pretty unromantic.
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That the Philosophy Chamber exhibition, with its unromantic approach, contributes new discoveries only emphasizes how much work has yet to be done.
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While the marriage is an unromantic and arranged one, the two share a mutual respect for one another, and become unlikely friends.
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At their most candid, some Democrats echo their pragmatist forebears in emphasizing the unromantic exigencies of elections and the political inevitability of mammon.
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For all their considerable power, Burtynsky's Romantic forms are in tension with their unromantic contents, a contrast articulated by the works' informational titles.
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One could argue a transaction like this is incredibly unromantic, but I would hit back with this: Generally, grand gestures make me gag.
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With those releases and this one, he has been working a different persona: bummed-out, apathetic, confused, self-pitying, unromantic yet still needy.
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Despite this narrative not-so-sleight of hand, Bump's ending still manages to be unexpected and unromantic, while containing so much love and hope.
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The field offce was located far from the Hoover building, in a run-down neighborhood known by the thoroughly unromantic moniker of Buzzard Point.
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But I soon realized that what I was really doing was calculating the "marginal utility" of my time with him, which felt distinctly unromantic.
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While he realizes that sounds "very unromantic," he says blocking out family time allows him to be more present with his daughter and wife.
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But it was precisely the area's rough, unromantic aura and the glacial pace of its metamorphosis that attracted the designer and architect Andrea Tognon.
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Five days after Mr. Sabato's "unromantic," proposal, his parents traveled from Florida to witness the couple's ceremony at the marriage bureau in Lower Manhattan.
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Some bits of business that Mr. Dodin invested in earlier, like that filmstrip, which reappears packaged into unromantic film cans, at last pay poignant dividends.
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While this ritual most commonly appears as part of an otherwise traditional ceremony nowadays, it used to be a (sometimes wholly unromantic) ceremony unto itself.
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Perhaps this all sounds incredibly unromantic, which is why at this point, even a few weeks later, I've held off telling many of my friends.
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All of the data being produced in high-energy accelerators is beautifully explained by a single theory with a highly unromantic name: the Standard Model.
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As unromantic as a prenuptial agreement may seem, Felder says it should be one of the first tasks a couple completes after they get engaged.
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Mud, as the title indicates, is an essential feature along with harsh wide shots that show an unromantic view of the Jim Crow-era South.
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Vanessa went on and on about how "unromantic" the possibility of Nick's proposal was because of the fact that there's still "another woman" in the picture.
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From this unromantic end Kraus pivots to Acker as a twenty-three year old living in Washington Heights in 1971 (she grew up on 57th Street).
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At a time when relationships can increasingly be described as "it's complicated," some experts are advising a decidedly unromantic move: subject your sweetheart to a background check.
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The view from up here on the highway is unromantic and brutally efficient, not unlike the overall aesthetic of a city synonymous with air-conditioning and AstroTurf.
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And yet the house itself was unromantic: a stolid Victorian villa, built of massive blocks of red sandstone, on a steep hill overlooking a small seaside town.
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Then I remembered it's a gritty, unromantic look at poverty that forces the viewer to recognize conditions that actually exist in this country for millions of children.
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When I was about 5, I thought a musical version of "The Prince and the Pauper" was magical, and it was performed without scenery in an unromantic basement.
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"It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed," he wrote in a letter to the ornithologist's wife.
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The documentary thus starts by giving us an unromantic street philosopher, who will seriously discuss the ontology of the photographic image while tellin' ya how it really is.
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"It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed," he once wrote in a letter to the ornithologist's wife.
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" Yet at the same time, writing still feels entirely unromantic to her: "A lot of the times [when I write] I'm not feeling deeply like I need to express myself.
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Despite the somewhat unromantic nature of a movie based on a military excursion to capture two Somali warlords, my beloved seized my hand and held it for the entire film.
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Yet these aren't one-off affairs: Silva reported that although the hookups are "unromantic," they are not emotionless, and many men maintained regular sexual partners whom they likened to sexual friends.
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I could see the unromantic air-conditioning fans whirring on the rooftops of buildings whose marble facades made them look as if they wouldn't deign to even admit the existence of weather.
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Blum looked adoringly at her unromantic, 94-year-old savior and said, "They could have killed him right away on the spot, but he loved me and he wanted to keep me."
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A road, newly paved by Australia as part payment to its former colony for hosting this punitive experiment in refugee management, leads to Lorengau, a capital of romantic name and unromantic misery.
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"One way to resist or distance yourself from [Valentine's Day] baggage is to ironically participate by going on a date at a place that seems categorically low-end or unromantic," he says.
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At Variety, Peter Debruge criticized its "rampant negativity," and called it an unromantic coming of age story; At Buzzfeed, Anne Helen Peterson said it was a kind of treatise on whiteness and privilege.
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"The best advice I can give to navigate travel bargains is unromantic, but effective: Sign up for emails from online travel agencies and tourism boards," said Devon Nagle, head of communications for Priceline.
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Checking back in on the characters from the 1996 original, the new film self-consciously questions its own existence, proving just satisfying enough by being as unromantic as its predecessor—albeit in very different ways.
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The end of Little Women sees its heroine, tomboyish and ambitious Jo, married off to the pointedly unromantic Friedrich Bhaer, a middle-aged and unattractive German professor who disapproves of the sensational stories she writes.
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But however comforting, it's also a deeply impoverished vision of what life is supposed to be—a pale, passive, unromantic view of humans as chess pieces rather than adventurers in a painful but rich human experience.
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Make sure if you are indulging in any of the V-Day treats below that they stay out of your pet's reach, so your day of love doesn't end with an unromantic trip to the emergency animal hospital.
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Nychos looks to subvert these ideals by literally dissecting these icons, revealing that underneath all of the glitz and glamour, these larger-than-life figures are made out of the same unromantic blood and guts as everybody else.
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Instead, the shows reveal how grueling it truly is — the sleep deprivation, the losing struggle to complete high school, constant unromantic bickering with a boy who's a kid and a father, the pull from friends who can still party with impunity.
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It was okay for one of these guys to have broken up with his girlfriend to go on a television show, or to cheat right before, but being cool and mature enough to say, 'Maybe this isn't perfect for us,' makes me unromantic?
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If you had to guess which detail from these scenes would trigger the rest of the story, you would probably point to the bond—awkward, unromantic, yet closer than that of mentor and pupil—between Jenny and Julien, or else to the kid with convulsions.
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It may not be a prudent financial investment from a risk-reward standpoint but, having obtained the degree, the pressure to have the investment payoff is real and so it makes a certain kind of sense, however unromantic, for recipients to be career-minded, professional, conservative, safe.
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The wife is ready for her cheating husband to die, but when he wakes up, injured and confused, he doesn't recognize his other woman, and starts asking for his wife (by the very unromantic pet name "bugs"), telling her how awesome she is and wondering how he could have ever left her. Awkward.
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But building on insights particularly from Bruce Cain and Rick Pildes on the value of group conflict in politics, he asked the following important question: How do we reform American politics so that their pluralistic vision—"imperfect but stable," messy, unromantic—might actually describe reality, rather than the conditions of another era?
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It documented what Wallace called the "grudging move toward maybe acknowledging that this unromantic, unhip, clichéd A.A. thing — so unlikely and unpromising ... this goofy slapdash anarchic system of low-rent gatherings and corny slogans and saccharine grins and hideous coffee" might actually offer hope, in its simplicity and its slogans, in its church-basement coffee and its effusion of anonymous and unqualified love.
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The bistro was the unromantic, old-fashioned kind of place where the dishes looked like photographs out of 1970s cookbooks, the kind of cookbooks women of her mother's generation used to own and of which in fact there had been a memorable example in her own childhood home, her father at a certain point having taken out a subscription for her mother to a series of bound volumes entitled Cordon Bleu Cookery.
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Sometimes he fleetingly glimpses the father he never met, through a stern and kindly recorded announcement on a Staten Island Ferry boat; in a fountain's statue of Neptune near a "home for aged and decrepit sailors"; in a fortuitous encounter with a friend of his sister's, and that man's young son, in a restroom at a Lowe's in Wheeling, West Va. As Mr. Oliver says "Lowe's," that unromantic home improvement store acquires a numinous glow, as do the words Build It Green, the name of a house-fixtures salvage store in Queens, N.Y. The idea of home, you see, is as tantalizingly insubstantial to Mr. Oliver as that of a father.
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The unheroic but truthful pleasure-seeker then gave an unromantic snore.
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The most unromantic and least impressible speak of it with enthusiasm.
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Anne is disappointed but amused at how unromantic the whole situation is and she rejects him.
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There are assumptions that German women are cold and unromantic. Some people assume that German women are unable to cook.
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The Quietus praised the "stunning" live performances and particularly Yorke's demos, and wrote of the "unromantic revealing" of the process of creating music.
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She lies. They elope to Lake Tahoe to be married. On the way, Sean urges her to sign a prenuptial agreement. She thinks it "unromantic" but concedes.
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After the release of the title track on September 22, 2016 following the release of Starboy's artwork and title the day earlier, "False Alarm" was released as a promotional single on September 29, 2016. The song lyrically revolves around drugs, unromantic relationships and materialism.
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Harmondsworth: Penguin, p. 12. Huysmans' next novel, En rade, an unromantic account of a summer spent in the country, did not sell as well as its predecessor. His Là-bas (1891) attracted considerable attention for its portrayal of Satanism in France in the late 1880s.Rudwin, Maxmilian J. (1920).
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It was published in 1943, after Tagore's death. It became an iconic book that has been mentioned and quoted till the present times. Tagore's impact outside India was seen in a totally unromantic, unsentimental and critically sober manner. It obviously did not go down well with the Santiniketan intelligentia.
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Beddington describes the results as "workmanlike but unromantic".Beddington (1991), pp. 39, 40, 46–7, 163–5. Town & City changed its name to Sterling Guarantee Trust in 1983, and in February 1985 merged with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (known as ), also run by Jeffrey Sterling.
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Kramer's work was soon forgotten. His lyrical yet unromantic poetry draws its power and poetic quality from its depiction of outsiders: members of the proletariat, tramps, craftsmen, servants and whores. Kramer wrote sensitive poetic portraits of people and landscapes. His literary influences were Georg Trakl and Bertolt Brecht.
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Other writers situate his work in an American tradition that runs through 19th century Western landscape painters Albert Bierstadt and Frederick Church, the Winslow Homer's seascapes, and George Luks and George Bellows, which Cook goes beyond with an unmistakably contemporary, unromantic perspective.Vollmer, Stephen. James Cook, Ketchum, ID: Gail Severn Gallery, 2006.Pessler Anthony.
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He published the short story collection Goodnight, Sweetheart and Other Stories in 1993,"Apt appropriation of voice: Although not Jewish, Richard Teleky has won the Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction". National Post, January 5, 2000. and his debut novel The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin followed in 1998."Novelist paints Paris in unromantic light".
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Toni reads the letter and, realizing it's poorly written and unromantic (since Michael had copied words from greeting cards), she rewrites it. Elizabeth Fimple, Deborah Ann's mother, discovers the letter. Her jealous police officer husband, Lou Fimple, sees her reading it. He steals the letter, and believes that his wife is having an affair.
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Despite these unromantic circumstances, the couple settled amicably in Hanover (where the cost of living was much lower than in England), and by all accounts were devoted to each other throughout their marriage. Adelaide improved William's behaviour; he drank less, swore less, and became more tactful.Ziegler, pp.123, 129 Observers thought them parsimonious, and their lifestyle simple, even boring.
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Arild Fröhlich found appreciation as a "cool realist" who provided a "nontraditional" ending. It has been said Fatso was "the most unromantic comedy of all times" On the other hand the film was blamed for certain scenes which were "unnecessary and over the line". Other critics found Fatso "too mean spirited to be truly funny" or even "disgusting".
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Various writers, books, and literary movements were important to the formation of the punk subculture. Poet Arthur Rimbaud provided the basis for Richard Hell's attitude, fashion, and hairstyle. Charles Dickens' working class politics and unromantic depictions of disenfranchised street youth influenced British punk in a number of ways. Malcolm McLaren described the Sex Pistols as Dickensian.
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Variety noted the "sharp editing and tight control of actors" and the use of "[b]leached colors, oblique camera angles and bargain-basement lighting". The film, which was aimed at male Generation X viewers, showed the unromantic drabness and pettiness of life in the suburbs in Western Canada, a stark contrast to the majestic mountains often shown in postcards.
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Shaw represents Vivie as the product of a type of gender reformation: a character who is asexual and "permanently unromantic"."Mrs. Warren's Profession", The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Twentieth Century and Beyond (eds. Joseph Black, et al.) Canada: Broadview, 2008 Throughout the play, the boundary between sexual desires and proposed marriages is blurred. Frank flirts with both Mrs.
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During the late summer of 1929 Rubiner undertook a river cruise, taking in the Volga and other river systems. A product of this adventure, published in 1930, was her book "The great river. An unromantic Volga journey" ("Der große Strom. Eine unromantische Wolgafahrt"). Between November 1929 and 1930 she was employed in the Academic Department of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute in Moscow.
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The cider syrup can be able to survive until today, due to its fruity acidity and complex layers of taste. The cane sugar unromantic, maple syrup is boring, and sorghum is individual taste. People can feel apple blossoms, oranges and honey taste by only put a drop of cider syrup on the tongue. It contains fruity acidity and smell of smoke (where the edge of burnt syrup).
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Heath formed producer partnerships with Nora Ephron at Columbia Pictures, and Andrew Eaton and Michael Winterbottom at Polygram/Universal. He executive produced the Toronto World of Comedy Film Festival selection The Most Unromantic Man in the World, which was written and directed by James Heath (his son) and Gratian Dimech. In 2009 Heath formed the former US/UK based feature film and television production company, Birdland Film.
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TV stated that no other modern TV show does holidays like Modern Family. "In the end, this endearing yet decidedly unromantic episode gets to the heart of the family matters and is best summed up by Manny, who declares: "Happy Valentine's Day! It's the one day of the year when the world tries to be as romantic as I am all the time. Good luck, world.
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Bemberg was only able to make the film after President Raúl Alfonsín outlawed film censorship in 1982, making it a political statement as much as it is a romantic fiction. Despite the romantic plot led by the Camila and Ladislao Gutierrez, the Jesuit priest, the film is distinct for its unromantic end in the midst of the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas. The film cost US$370,000 to make.
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Meanwhile, Biman's girl friend Nandini runs away from home, and declares that she won't go back. The whole group pools in efforts to get the couple married and find them a temporary place to live in. Tiklu, who appears to be unromantic, even cynical, diverts money from his family's printing business to help the couple, and is mercilessly beaten up. Arun and Urmi have a long conversation about life and love.
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As a dedicated botanist, Mo Rourou is yet another pair of twins with her younger twin brother, Mo Yangyang, whose life revolves around nothing but plants. Though blessed with good looks, suitors are often put off by her highly scientific talks and unromantic soul. When out collecting specimens in the forest on one occasion, Rourou runs into her love interest's half-brother and is raped. She wakes up from the ordeal mentally traumatised.
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She portrayed the love interest of the main character Big Pete. In 1996, she landed her first feature film role in The Broccoli Theory, an "unromantic comedy" set in NYC. In 1997, she made her first appearance on a mainstream feature film, the Kevin Kline comedy In & Out. Blair auditioned six times for the role and remained several weeks on the set, but most of her scenes were cut from the final screened edition.
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In 1913, Ka found Woolf unconscious from an overdose of veronal, and her prompt intervention saved her life. The two women gradually lost touch with each other after Ka married, and Virginia was rather critical of the match, which she deemed unromantic. Ka rightly sensed this, writing to Virginia "I feel you will probably not like Will". Ka was later to become the inspiration for Mary Datchett in Woolf's Night and Day (1919).
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Cable's first wife was Olympia Rebelo, a Goan Roman Catholic, whom he met "in the unromantic setting of a York mental hospital where we happened to be working as nurses during a summer holiday." They had three children together and she completed her PhD in History at Glasgow University in 1976. Olympia was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the 1987 general election. After apparently successful treatment, the disease returned in the mid-1990s and before the 1997 general election.
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The video was made by Augenblick Studios and consists of showing a man's tattoos. The tenth track on the album, "If That Isn't Love", is a style parody of Hanson, with Taylor Hanson on piano. The song is about all of the extremely unromantic and sometimes misguided things that the singer does to show his love for his significant other, such as "let you warm your freezing hands inside my buttcrack." The music video was animated and directed by Brian Frisk.
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When she proposes to go have a drink together, Elliot explains that after his phone call, the night actually got better for him. As Caroline accused Elliot of being unromantic, he stood up for himself and accepted to go dance with her and Bradley, actually impressing Caroline with his moves. Bradley shows off his breakdance routines, accidentally hitting Elliot in the face, to Caroline's concerns. Bradley apologizes and reveals that he will leave the next morning to Malta for his work as a geode student.
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165–66 The relationship was characterised by Keeler as an unromantic relationship without expectations, a "screw of convenience",Summers and Dorril, p. 139 although she also states that Profumo hoped for a longer- term commitment and that he offered to set her up in a flat.Keeler, pp. 127–28 More than twenty years later, Profumo described Keeler in conversation with his son as someone who "seem[ed] to like sexual intercourse", but who was "completely uneducated", with no conversation beyond make-up, hair and gramophone records.
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On Mars, Ylla (a Martian woman trapped in an unromantic marriage) dreams of the coming astronauts through telepathy. Her husband, though he pretends to deny the reality of the dreams, becomes bitterly jealous, sensing his wife's inchoate romantic feelings for one of the astronauts. He kills the two-man expedition, astronauts Nathaniel York and Bert Conover, as soon as they arrive. Mission control on Earth does not know the fate of the crew, and one of the senior astronauts Jeff Spender urges the project director Col.
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Accompanied by an orchestral synth, string and brass instrumental, Alex Camp of Slant Magazine described "Infinity" as a "welcome throwback to Mariah's early ballads". Andrew Unterberger of Spin likened the intro to the work of Just Blaze, and noted that she finishes the song with a whistle note. According to its lyrics, Carey is putting herself first in order to emancipate herself. As described by Wass, "Infinity" is "distinctly unromantic" and "a kiss-off anthem", writing that it sits somewhere in between two of Carey's previous singles, "Obsessed" (2009) and "You're Mine (Eternal)" (2014).
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Unlike The Goblin Tower and The Clocks of Iraz, which take Jorian far afield to other countries, most of the action in The Unbeheaded King takes place in Novaria, mainly the city-states of Xylar and Othomae. As usual, the political constraints under which the protagonist labor are at least as important as the fantastic element. The decidedly unromantic, even hardscrabble circumstances under which he must achieve his goals leaven the fantasy with a strong sense of reality, and highlight de Camp's unusual reversal of the genre's stereotypical rags to riches theme.
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Shawcross, p. 177 Elizabeth laid her bouquet at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior on her way into the abbey,Vickers, p. 64 in memory of her brother Fergus. Elizabeth became styled Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York.Shawcross, p. 168 Following a wedding breakfast at Buckingham Palace prepared by chef Gabriel Tschumi, the new Duchess and her husband honeymooned at Polesden Lacey, a manor house in Surrey, and then went to Scotland, where she caught "unromantic" whooping cough.Letter from Albert to Queen Mary, 25 May 1923, quoted in Shawcross, p. 185.
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A reporter from Inside Soap labelled the moment "a rather unromantic start to Stacey and Bradders' love story!" Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack) and Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) buy the club, renaming it the R&R; \- the initials of Ronnie and her sister, Roxy Mitchell (Rita Simons). Ronnie and Roxy run the club, while Jack operates as a silent partner. When Ronnie and Jack separate, Ronnie sells her share of the club to Jack, although after a fire in the club, Ronnie and Roxy each buy a share in the club.
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Most art historians agree that Manet was challenging the romantic ideals of female nudity and prostitution that were previously held in society. By giving Olympia a completely disinterested expression on her face, the fact that prostitution is a job, unromantic and unenjoyable, for her, is emphasized. The painting itself was inspired by Titian's (1488-1576) Venus of Urbino (1534), but was seen as a crude, badly painted version of its highly esteemed academic predecessor. Many critics chose to ignore the similarities between the two works and viewed them as two totally separate and unrelated paintings.
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Finally, her book would be published. Before that happened, however, she had to fight her editor to retain the distinctive Western idiom in which she had written the book, as her publishers wanted her to standardize the English used in the book. The book was well-received critically and commercially when it was issued, and became a Book of the Month Club selection. Some readers were shocked at her unromantic depiction of the Old West, as well as her strong language and realistic portrayal of the hardships of frontier life.
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Big tells Carrie to stop worrying that they will become a tired, boring old married couple, and they take new wedding vows for each other. Big forgives Carrie and gives her a black diamond ring (to make up for his unromantic marriage proposal - without a ring - 3 years earlier) to really show the world she's off the market. As their marriage grows out of the "terrible twos" Big and Carrie seem very happy and relaxed with each other. Now that they are both making an effort, and due to the ring Big gave her, they have their "sparkle" back.
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A sneak peek review of British independent feature film For Love or Money: An Unromantic Comedy (released in the US since 15 March 2019) has emphasized his outstanding performance as the father of the main female character. Ivan Kaye's most important recent projects are Amazon's pilot for an adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower book series, starting with a prequel about the main character's youth based on book 4 Wizard and Glass and Navot Papushado's new action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake. The former has started filming in Split on 13 May 2019, the latter finished filming in August 2019 in Berlin.
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It is hinted that he formed a pact with Kirino during primary school to boycott Kyosuke and Manami, but apologized to Kyosuke after Kyosuke helped him in school and has been a loyal follower of Kyosuke since then. ; : :Kyosuke's classmate who, similar to Kyosuke, often has to support his little sister's hobby for eroge. Unlike Kyosuke's strained relationship with Kirino, Kōhei's relationship with Sena is much better, although Kyosuke considers him to be somewhat of a siscon. While he is a huge siscon, his feelings for his little sister are completely unromantic and only loves her as a little sister.
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Speculation and assumptions about the case are described in a direct, merciless and impressive manner. With her debut novel, Andrea Schenkel presents not only thrilling crime and fiction. She also draws the pitiless portraits of a bigoted and unromantic rural society influenced by traumatic relations that finally lead to death. More than one million copies were sold in Germany. The work has been published in more than 20 languages, with foreign rights sold to France (Actes Sud), Italy (Riuniti), the Netherlands (Signature), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway and Denmark. In 2009, Constantin Film released Tannöd, starring Julia Jentsch and Volker Bruch.
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Both Justin and his father suspect that Audrey is having an affair with Schramm after she is transferred to a celebrity rehab facility where Schramm has been committed. Attempting to catch his mother in the act, he instead meets Schramm sneaking a smoke in the bushes, and learns the unromantic truth. The next day, he receives an acceptance letter from NYU. During a final checkup, Dr. Lyman reveals to Justin his discovery that thumb-sucking is not a medically debilitating problem, and says that everyone has their own flaws and nobody has all the answers--that in fact learning to live without having the answers is (perhaps) the answer.
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Elizabeth Burke (Tiffani Thiessen) is an event planner, and is married to Peter. It is shown in first season that Peter followed her and did background checks in order to ask Elizabeth out (although unromantic, this mirrors real-life guidelines of the personal lives of law enforcement and intelligence agents). Elizabeth is a periodic "consultant" to the FBI and has assisted on various cases, using her professional activities as a convincing cover. She is even seen teaching Peter how to flirt with other women when he is going undercover, and on occasion demonstrates a cooler head in a crisis than her husband or Neal.
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Army of Shadows () is a 1969 French drama-suspense film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It is a film adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1943 book of the same name, which blends Kessel's own experiences as a member of the French Resistance with fictionalized versions of other Resistance members. Army of Shadows follows a small group of Resistance fighters as they move between safe houses, work with the Allied militaries, kill informers, and attempt to evade the capture and execution that they know is their most likely fate. While portraying its characters as heroic, the film presents a bleak, unromantic view of the Resistance.
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The resplendent sets by Nitin Chandrakant Desai --- Paro's stained glass house before marriage, her towering mansion after marriage, Devdas' sprawling house, Chandramukhi's dazzling dance-court, even the railway compartment --- are a treat to the eyes." About the dances, she writes, "Saroj Khan and Pandit Birju Maharaj storm the screen with some sensational choreography. Madhuri Dixit's dances are breathtaking.....For all its hype, grandeur, money, blood, sweat, music, tragedy, Devdas is a must-see for even the most pragmatic and unromantic." Film critic Subhash K. Jha gave the film 4.5 stars out of 5 stating, "Devdas is one of the most outstanding products of the much-maligned Bollywood.
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Marion is a French-born photographer living in New York City with her neurotic, hypochondriacal, chain-smoking, heavily tattooed American interior designer boyfriend Jack. After a markedly unromantic trip to Venice, which was planned to re-ignite the passion in their relationship, they take a night train to Paris to pick up Marion's cat from her parents and decide to stay for two days. Jack is startled to learn Marion has remained in contact with numerous ex-lovers and becomes increasingly uncomfortable due to the language barrier and a multitude of her old flames she keeps meeting. Meanwhile, Marion wrestles with her own insecurities about love, relationships, and her impulsive nature.
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Armatree Plains were reached in due course, and were crossed at a pretty uniform speed of one mile an hour. The country here differs in configuration but little from the surrounding plains, and its designation is only comprehensible as specifying a part of the whole. Several times whilst crossing little streams a couple of feet in depth it seemed that the horses were going to fail, but the rough experience of travellers did not embrace so unromantic an episode. When the party had to leave the coach in times of difficulty there was sufficient dry land within access to allow of the swampy patches to be avoided.
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When Sabrina (Lulu Brud), the new manager of the Brew sees her, Emily tells her not to tell anybody, not giving an explanation for why she was at the medical center. Hanna is surprised by her fiancé, Jordan (David Coussins), while Spencer (Troian Bellisario) and Caleb (Tyler Blackburn) continue a questionable, yet unromantic, relationship. Alison invites the girls over to dinner, where she implies that she believes Aria had something to do with the murder. Hanna is able to access surveillance footage of the hotel from the night Charlotte died and discovers that Aria had left the hotel with Ezra soon before Charlotte was killed.
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Only a select few yaoi games have been officially translated into English. In 2006, JAST USA announced they would be releasing Enzai as Enzai: Falsely Accused, the first license of a yaoi game in English translation. Some fan communities have criticized the choice of such a dark and unromantic game as the US market's first exposure to the genre. JAST USA subsequently licensed Zettai Fukujuu Meirei under the title Absolute Obedience, while Hirameki International licensed Animamundi; the later game, although already nonexplicit, was censored for US release to achieve a "mature" rather than "adults only" rating, removing some of both the sexual and the violent content.
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The New Yorker columnist, Hilton Als, called the play a "nearly perfect work of dramatic art, whose power derives from its equitable compassion and its unromantic view of myth". Ben Brantley in The New York Times review, wrote: "...even Mr. Lane can’t reconcile all the disparities Mr. Beane’s script asks him to weave together. By the show’s end, Chauncey has become both an eloquent hero in the fight against censorship and a crusty defender of the status quo, a figure of illuminating self-awareness and benighted denial. It is to Mr. Lane’s credit that he displays no signs of whiplash, but his audience may not be similarly immune".
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He featured in a 1961 recorded Glyndebourne production of The Marriage of Figaro. Evans appeared in the premieres of several operas including two operas by British composers which were staged for the first time in the U.K. at Sadlers Wells: The Wager by Buxton Orr (1962) and The Departure by Elizabeth Maconchy (1963). A reviewer said that his singing performance with Derby Choral Union in the Messiah gave a most admirable interpretation and that he "sang most nobly stressing a fine bass and control". (1964) From 1964 to 1969 he was the leading man in London's West End in The Merry Widow, as Danilo, a "down-to-earth unromantic figure", opposite Elizabeth Webb.
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Radiant Bride magazine writer, Paige Summerland (Candace Cameron Bure), boards a flight to New York City on her way to meet her wealthy "soulmate" fiancé and future in-laws. Her romantic optimism leaves her convinced that her upcoming wedding to Jack Collins (Marcus Rosner) is destined to be as perfect as her picture-perfect magazine articles and her "vision board", with photos reflecting her life goals. She sits next to Dylan MacKenzie (Paul Greene), a cynical unromantic bartender who is traveling to see his family for the first time in four years—a reunion he is not looking forward to. Due to a heavy snowstorm, their flight is rerouted to Buffalo, New York.
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Existing trees were marked to be kept, only mishapen or damaged ones were to be removed. Sorensen must have been keenly aware of the opportunities to exploit the dramatic outlook over the Jamison Valley from the lower part of the site. The view of distant cliffs and valley floor carpeted with dense eucalpyt forest, all softened by the gentle atmospheric blueness so characteristic of the mountains, was one to stir the imagination of all but the most unromantic. Sorensen decision not to use this view as part of the formal garden but to limit intensive development to the area previously disturbed for the orchard was made very early in the design stage.
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Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838, before the serialization ended. The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the "Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.
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The works of Thomas Lawrence, John Singer Sargent, Nicolas Poussin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Thomas Gainsborough has influenced Kris Knight as well. The majority of Knight's characters are based on real people, mostly his close friends and family, but sometimes collaged images culled from mass media, self-portraits, and his imagination. Knight's subjects have mostly been young men or androgynous men, admitting that he has a fascination with "youth decay" - of holding on to one's youth:"Our society focuses so much on youth as the pinnacle of beauty that we become poisoned by the obsession of preserving what is naturally fleeting." Knight attributed his love of naming "cheesy subversive title" to his paintings to growing up gay in "unromantic, small farming towns in rural Canada".
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Amanda Price, a keen Jane Austen fan from present-day Hammersmith, who has just rejected an unromantic marriage proposal from her boozy, unfaithful boyfriend, discovers Elizabeth Bennet, a character from Pride and Prejudice, in a nightgown in her bathroom; but when Elizabeth disappears, she brushes the incident off as a dream. Amanda explains to her mother that Jane Austen's novel has shown her that she can set higher standards for a husband for herself, and taught her to believe in true love. Elizabeth appears in Amanda's bathroom again, this time dressed for travel. Amanda steps through the secret doorway in the wall that Elizabeth has shown her, and finds herself at Longbourn, the house of the Bennet family, near the beginning of the novel.
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Among those types were his brother, Peter, who had been involved in behind-the-lines operations in Norway and Greece during the war. Aside from Fleming's brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Bond's make up, including Conrad O'Brien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel- Job and Bill "Biffy" Dunderdale. The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo- Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born".
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He befriends employees Merle Coverdale (who is in fact indulging in an unromantic, immoral affair with the married Mr Druce) and Elaine Kent, an "experienced controller of process", as well as Humphrey Place, a refrigerator engineer. After finding lodgings with Miss Belle Frierne (where Humphrey Place also resides), and splitting up with his fiancé Jinny due to her being ill (his "fatal flaw" is that he cannot bear anyone who is ill), Dougal embarks upon a mission of disruption throughout Peckham. Throughout this he falls foul of typist Dixie Morse and electrician Trevor Lomas and becomes the target of a gang consisting of Trevor, Collie Gould and Lesley Crewe. Throughout his stay in Peckham, Dougal carries out "human research" on the "moral character" of the people of the area.
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Neoromanticism was a term that originated in literary theory in the early 19th century to distinguish later kinds of romanticism from earlier manifestations. In music, it was first used by Richard Wagner in his polemical 1851 article "Oper und Drama", as a disparaging term for the French romanticism of Hector Berlioz and Giacomo Meyerbeer from 1830 onwards, which he regarded as a degenerated form of true romanticism. The word came to be used by historians of ideas to refer to music from 1850 onwards, and to the work of Wagner in particular. The designation "neo" was used to acknowledge the fact that music of the second half of the 19th century remained in a romantic mode in an unromantic age, dominated by positivism, when literature and painting had moved on to realism and impressionism .
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Women with a positive sexual schema tend to view themselves as: emotionally romantic or passionate, open to romantic and sexual relationships and experiences, liberal in their sexual attitudes and free of social inhibitions, evaluating sexual behavior more positively, more likely to engage in uncommitted sex and (one-night) sexual encounters, and more likely to anticipate more sexual partners in the future. Although they might seem very unrestricted, they also are more likely to have romantic ties or partners, and more likely to value romantic, loving, intimate attachments. On the other hand, women with negative sexual self-schema tend to view themselves as emotionally cold and unromantic, behaviorally inhibited in their sexual and romantic relationships, very conservative, and not confident in a variety of social and sexual contexts.Andersen, B. L., & Cyranowski, J. M. (1994).
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The film recounts the lives of several US naval officers and their wives or lovers while based in Hawaii as the US involvement in World War II begins. The title of the film comes from a quote from an American Revolutionary naval hero: The film presents a relatively unromantic and realistic picture of the American Navy and its officers from the night of December 6, 1941 through the first year of the US involvement in World War II, complete with bureaucratic infighting among the brass and sometimes disreputable private acts by individuals. Its sprawling narrative is typical of Preminger's works in which he examined institutions and the people who run them, such as the American Congress and the Presidency in Advise & Consent, the Catholic Church in The Cardinal and the British Intelligence Service in The Human Factor.
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If this portrait is compared to the unromantic portrait of Antoine attributed to Hans Memling, painted 8–10 years later, one can see the liberties taken by van der Weyden. Even allowing for aging, the artist seems to have enlarged the eyes, defined the contours of the face, and given a much stronger jaw than seen in Memling's portrait.Campbell, 15 The physical dissimilarities from other portraits of Anthony of Burgundy has made some critics tentatively identify the sitter of this portrait as John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch, knight of the Golden Fleece who was sent into exile in Burgundy after his father Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra was killed in action in the Battle of Alfarrobeira when an arrow pierced his heart (thus providing a plausible explanation for the meaning of the arrow held by the sitter).
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This part consists of an erudite discussion of literary styles, with Connolly posing the question of what the following ten years would bring in the world of literature and what sort of writing would last. He summarises the two main styles as follows: :"We have seen that there are two styles which it is convenient to describe as the realist, or vernacular, the style of rebels, journalists, common-sense addicts, and unromantic observers of human destiny – and the Mandarin, the artificial style of men of letters or of those in authority who make letters their spare time occupation." His examples of exponents of the Mandarin style include Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, Aldous Huxley and James Joyce, the dominant literary character of the 1920s. Examples of vernacular or realist exponents include Ernest Hemingway, Somerset Maugham, Christopher Isherwood and George Orwell, the dominant force in the 1930s.
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The play begins with an extended bit of metadrama; the company's stage-keeper enters, criticising the play about to be performed because it lacks romantic and fabulous elements. He is then pushed from the stage by the book-keeper, who (serving as prologue) announces a contract between author and audience. The contract appears to itemise Jonson's discontentment with his audiences: Members are not to find political satire where none is intended; they are not to take as oaths such innocuous phrases as "God quit you"; they are not to "censure by contagion", but must exercise their own judgment; moreover, they are allowed to judge only in proportion to the price of their ticket. Perhaps most important, they agree not to expect a throwback to the sword-and-buckler age of Smithfield, for Jonson has given them a picture of the present and unromantic state of the fair.
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Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, an expert on Caribbean birds and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, himself a keen birdwatcher, had a copy of Bond's guide, and later told the ornithologist's wife, "that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born". In a 1962 interview in The New Yorker, he further explained: "When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard." Illustration commissioned by Fleming, showing his concept of the James Bond character.
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The lyrics of Robert Burns in Scotland, and Thomas Moore from Ireland, reflected in different ways their countries and the Romantic interest in folk literature, but neither had a fully Romantic approach to life or their work. Though they have modern critical champions such as György Lukács, Scott's novels are today more likely to be experienced in the form of the many operas that composers continued to base on them over the following decades, such as Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Vincenzo Bellini's I puritani (both 1835). Byron is now most highly regarded for his short lyrics and his generally unromantic prose writings, especially his letters, and his unfinished satire Don Juan.Christiansen, 197–200. Unlike many Romantics, Byron's widely publicised personal life appeared to match his work, and his death at 36 in 1824 from disease when helping the Greek War of Independence appeared from a distance to be a suitably Romantic end, entrenching his legend.
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Ian Fleming, who was a keen bird watcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with Bond's book, and chose the name of its author for the hero of Casino Royale in 1953, apparently because he wanted a name that sounded "as ordinary as possible". Fleming wrote to the real Bond's wife, "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born." He did not contact the real James Bond about using his name in the books, and Bond did not learn of the identity "theft" until the early 1960s when the 007 books became popular in the U.S. In 1964 during his annual winter stay at Goldeneye in Jamaica, James Bond and his wife visited Fleming unexpectedly. Also in his novel Dr. No Fleming referenced Bond's work by basing a large ornithological sanctuary on Dr. No's island in the Bahamas.
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"Cinderella, Broadway Theatre, New York", Financial Times, March 3, 2013 Richard Zoglin, writing for Time magazine, noted that the new production is "brightly colored, high spirited and well sung", but comparing it with the "emotionally alive" 1957 broadcast, he found the original stepsisters to be "more credible and less cartoonish than their present-day equivalents" and thought that the Prince and Cinderella "make a dreamier pair – you actually can believe they are falling in love. ... The new Broadway version, for all its hip updating, is a much less adventurous project."Zoglin, Richard. "Cinderella Then and Now: Revisiting Rodgers and Hammerstein", Time magazine, March 13, 2013 A reviewer from the Chicago Tribune wrote: > The fundamental problem with ... Beane's perplexing, wholly unromantic and > mostly laugh-free new book ... – which turns the heroine into a social > reformer ... the stepsisters ... into sympathetic, wounded creatures of > thwarted desire, and Prince Charming ... into a myopic dunce who needs his > eyes opened to the poverty of his people – is that it denies the audience > the pleasure of instant reversals of fortune.
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Stephen Holden, film critic for The New York Times, did not think the film worked well and opined that the actors did not connect. He wrote, "[the film displays] a gaping lack of emotional connection among the characters in a romantic triangle that feels conspicuously unromantic ... what ultimately sinks this stylish but heartless film is a flat lead performance by the eternally snippy Meg Ryan ... Ms. Ryan expresses no inner conflict, nor much of anything else beyond a mounting tension. Even when her wide blue eyes well up with tears, the pain she conveys is more the frustration of a little girl who has misplaced her doll than any deep, empathetic suffering." Critic David Ansen gave the film a mixed review, writing, > Taylor Hackford's thriller Proof of Life leaves a lot to be desired, but > it's got its hands on a fascinating subject ... To be fair, Tony Gilroy's > screenplay keeps the romance on the back burner ... Thorne is the most > compelling aspect of Proof of Life, thanks to Crowe's quiet, hard-bitten > charisma.
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In Belgium, where the Decadents and Symbolists were as numerous as their French counterparts, Félicien Rops depicted a grinning Pierrot who is witness to an unromantic backstage scene (Blowing Cupid's Nose [1881]) and James Ensor painted Pierrots (and other masks) obsessively, sometimes rendering them prostrate in the ghastly light of dawn (The Strange Masks [1892]), sometimes isolating Pierrot in their midst, his head drooping in despondency (Pierrot's Despair [1892]), sometimes augmenting his company with a smiling, stein-hefting skeleton (Pierrot and Skeleton in Yellow [1893]). Their countryman the poet Albert Giraud also identified intensely with the zanni: the fifty rondels of his Pierrot lunaire (Moonstruck Pierrot [1884]) would inspire several generations of composers (see Pierrot lunaire below), and his verse-play Pierrot-Narcissus (1887) offered a definitive portrait of the solipsistic poet-dreamer. The title of choreographer Joseph Hansen's 1884 ballet, Macabre Pierrot, created in collaboration with the poet Théo Hannon, summed up one of the chief strands of the character's persona for many artists of the era.
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In a four-out-of-five-star review for DIY, Lisa Wright drew comparisons to Warpaint's releases and said LoveLaws "feel familiar yet riddled with something slightly sadder", concluding that the album was "an even more personal exploration of [Wayman's] affective talents." Hot Press rated LoveLaws six out of ten, with Sam Steiger writing that "the overall mood is claustrophobic—the aural equivalent of a deep-sea journey … Enveloped in icy, Stygian depths, the sounds resonate with exaggerated meaning"; Steiger called the resulting sound "cool, downbeat and languid." Writing for The Line of Best Fit, Ross Horton referred to LoveLaws as "a resounding success", praised the album's "mastery of dynamics" and selected "The Dream" as the album's highlight, calling it "a groovy, down-tempo banger with thudding percussion sounds, densely layered atmospherics and Wayman's distinctive murmur"; Horton awarded the album a seven-out-of-ten rating. Loud and Quiet reviewer Tristan Gatward called LoveLaws "a resounding and devastating collection of songs about motherhood, loneliness and romance in an unromantic age" and "lyrically astute pop with shattering confessionalism", ultimately rating it eight out of ten.
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