Word: lovelessness
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...spell can be broken is if either a member of the Zubrisky family marries someone of the aristocrat's line, or if someone can educate Sophia. If the teacher fails to do so within 24 hours, the age-old curse will strike the promising intellectual as dumb and loveless as his pupil...
...postwar Wirtschaftswunder, the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany is a sporty blond racing along the autobahns in a glittering Mercedes-Benz. The Communist German Democratic Republic, bumping down potholed roads in proletarian Wartburgs and Russian-built Ladas, is her homely sister, a war bride locked in a loveless marriage with a former neighbor...
...author of An Essay in Defense of the Female Sex. Lady Antonia Fraser confirms this low appraisal of the state of many 17th century Englishwomen. But not all. Her indefatigable and lively research shows that a number of spirited females refused to get along and go along with a loveless marriage, contracted with an eye on a dowry and followed by a dozen children...
Through Susan's ardent temperament and acerbic tongue, Hare has his say on the duplicities of politics, the hypocrisies of business and the corruptive universal worship of Mammon. When Susan enters a loveless match with a middle-level diplomat (Edward Herrmann), Hare seizes his chance to lay down a carnal barrage on a Foreign Office bureaucracy requiring 6,000 men to dismantle an empire that it took 600 men to govern...
...politician. He did not encourage new Democratic talent or ideas; he neglected both the mechanism and the vision of the party, its sheer reason for being. Thus Carter's defeat is less traumatic to the Democrats than it might have been; it is like the end of a loveless marriage...