Word: romanticized
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Yuna is the requisite romantic lead. We first see her swooning beautifully in the doorway of the Chamber of Trials. Dewy with sweat, she collapses into the arms of a burly guardian, exalting breathily: “I’ve done it! I’ve become a summoner...
And Kit has suffered the worst of high-school horrors. Crowley assails Kit with everything he can think up: a criminal passion for someone too close for comfort, a teenage pregnancy, an attempted suicide by slitting of the wrists. This is hyperbole taking itself seriously: Kit is almost a parody...
That is called drama--the conflict of two seductive types, like the romantic and the cynic. The cynic gets the best lines, but Wilder made sure that this battle of heart vs. mind was a fair fight. And often he gave the heart every reason to conquer--as in the...
Nowhere in the reporting on the extramarital affair of GE's former CEO Jack Welch and Suzy Wetlaufer, editor at the Harvard Business Review, have I seen the word adultery [BUSINESS, March 18]. Instead, there are references to romantic escapades. As for Wetlaufer, there is a descriptor for a woman...
After rather thunderous ovations, the trio performed for two encores, the concert’s highlights. Dismissing Schubert’s sweetness, Pressler called the audience “back to earth” by playing the frenzied scherzo of Shostakovich’s second piano trio. After this outburst...