Word: lovingly
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Walking through Harvard Yard after an English section last fall, another student and I began speculating as to whether any writer had convincingly portrayed the experience of falling in love. Tolstoy developed it too suddenly and Austen privileged convention over emotion. And for Nabokov, love was a clinical affair; a warm body lain on ice. Entomologist, chess-player, master of three languages, and arguably the greatest prose stylist of the 20th century, the ever-meticulous Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov could reach sublime artistic heights, my interlocutor admitted—but who would want to inhabit such chilly...
...tried to take as much of the military out. We didn’t want to see John with a weapon on all the time and slogging through really dangerous places... We really just wanted it to be about two kids falling in love...
Tatum plays John—a Special Forces member who falls in love with college student Savannah (Seyfried) while on military leave in South Carolina. The two exchange letters when John is deployed to Afghanistan...
...think we could have taken John out of the military and made him anything else as long as that distance and time was between them and things come down the road that they don’t expect... This is a story [about] two kids in love for the very first time and it’s that first love that you can’t get right...
Because the war only serves as a backdrop, a plot device which separates the young couple and accelerates the emotional roller coaster of their relationship, the co-stars assert that this narrative of love and loss directly relates to college students...