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Those moments didn’t really work dramatically, either, since his Giovanni isn’t zesty, but rather pretty serene and matter-of-fact, mostly sober but a little wry, temperamentally gray — if still a practiced, persuasive romancer.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
A serial romancer, Mr. Bacharach was married four times — including once to the glamorous actress Angie Dickinson.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Most famously of late, Hawthorne psychedelic pop romancer Cuco, 20, turned the 2017 viral success born of his cover of Santo & Johnny Farina’s 1959 instrumental “Sleepwalk” into a seven-figure deal with Universal Music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2019
The Fault in Our Stars, the cancer romancer based on John Green’s best-seller, earned $12.6 million, tumbling 51.6% from its first-day gross.
From Time ● Jun. 8, 2014
Don't think me a romancer, that I can feel joyous when I know not how we are to be fed and clothed.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.
Green and her fellow young romancers put some verve into their scrambled affections.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2017
Carter Stanley’s songs of earthly separation, such as “The White Dove” and “The Fields Have Turned Brown,” and randy romancers, such as “How Mountain Girls Can Love,” were the equals of Monroe’s most sublime work.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 26, 2016
Sofia Vergara is the latest to enter the conversation: In an interview published in Net-a-Porter’s the Edit, the Modern Family star came down on the side of the vocal romancers.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2016
A few chapters later she tells Catherine Moreland, in preparation for dumping James Moreland in favour of Frederick Tilney, "after all that romancers may say, there is no doing without money".
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012
This is no love story, and can have no ending such as romancers love to set to their tales.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.
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