What's the difference between heartbroken and romance?

Heartbroken


Definition:

  • (a.) Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I've never been in a relationship and been heartbroken.
  • (2) Yu Hongchen, the vice dean of China’s football management centre, said Team China players had been left “heartbroken” by the defeat to Syria.
  • (3) Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which organises the Oscars, has said she’s “heartbroken” by the lack of diversity and that AMPAS will be taking “dramatic steps” to adjust the balance of its membership to include more black and ethnic minority film-makers.
  • (4) She said: "We are absolutely heartbroken," and blamed his illness on a lifetime of cigarette smoking.
  • (5) Kaplinsky, the TV presenter who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, was said to have been “heartbroken” when private details of her wedding and honeymoon were published.
  • (6) "In the conclusion of the tragedy by Chekohov, everyone is disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, but alive."
  • (7) Without sounding like a cynical heartbroken niece, I welcome the Sports Charter and above all hope it will finally bring tolerance and change in one of the most loved games in the world.
  • (8) At this point in time our family is heartbroken, not able to grieve; his body is still in the mortuary all alone.
  • (9) Heartbroken, Paul refused to leave the Portland Place apartment, the place where his daughter passed away.
  • (10) Minister Stan Smith said members of the Cornerstone Community Church congregation were offering to mourn with people who were heartbroken by the news of Henning's death.
  • (11) As someone who had a chance to talk to him in the past, I really feel heartbroken to see how he has been treated,” said Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based Amnesty International activist.
  • (12) Yvette van Schalkwyk, a social worker and probation officer assigned to Pistorius after he shot dead his girlfriend, testified that he was sincerely heartbroken and sorry for what Reeva Steenkamp's parents were going through.
  • (13) Iwas heartbroken to read about the impact of child sexual abuse on the former footballers Andy Woodward , Steve Walters and Paul Stewart .
  • (14) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
  • (15) "Twenty heartbroken families lost a child in the Sandy Hook school shooting," Green says in the video.
  • (16) He said that Reed remained "heartbroken" by the incident, in which he lost friends and co-workers.
  • (17) Fastest in tournament history Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brazil fans were heartbroken after the 7-1 defeat by Germany
  • (18) "We’re heartbroken that something like this might have happened again," the president said.
  • (19) The German media have been more awed than heartbroken by the spectacular match between Liverpool and Dortmund: “4:3!
  • (20) He upset already-heartbroken volunteers and activists further with this statement.

Romance


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
  • (n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
  • (n.) A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
  • (n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
  • (n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
  • (v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, in genres such as westerns, sci-fi and romance, well over 50% of sales could be in ebook form.
  • (2) 23 May More films to see in 2014 • 2014 preview: thrillers • 2014 preview: comedy • 2014 preview: Oscar hopefuls • 2014 preview: science fiction • 2014 preview: romance • 2014 preview: drama • This article was amended on Thursday 2 January 2014.
  • (3) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
  • (4) While the multiplexes seem to be racing to make filmgoing expensive and unglamorous, here was romance.
  • (5) In high school, I was having this mad, passionate romance.
  • (6) The contemporary family romance myth of the secret benefactor as rescuer is described.
  • (7) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
  • (8) When notoriously snooty indie website Pitchfork reviewed True Romance, it gave it an 8.3, which is significant of the coolster demographic she reaches across the Atlantic.
  • (9) Gareth Neame, managing director of Carnival Films, which produces the show, said: "We promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy played out by some of the most iconic characters on television."
  • (10) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.
  • (11) Rumours of their romance were fuelled when, after dinner meetings in Hong Kong, they were seen holding hands.
  • (12) Witherspoon began working in films aged 14, making an instant impression after being cast in the lead role for the 1991 teen romance The Man in the Moon.
  • (13) Olympic medals, Nobel prizes, the colour of coffee romances, prestige credit cards and superior chocolate from Terry's to Wispa .
  • (14) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
  • (15) The high-tech production sticks closely to the original story charting the rise and romance of amateur boxer Rocky Balboa, played by Drew Sarich.
  • (16) China has been courting Robert Ocholla with the awkward intensity of a high-school romance.
  • (17) She described a concentrated process of grooming by the entertainer, who kept up an intermittent and almost entirely romance-free sexual liaison with her until her late 20s.
  • (18) Amazon already has imprints for cult fiction (47North), thrillers (Thomas & Mercer), romance (Montlake Romance), children's books (Amazon Children's Publishing), foreign literature (AmazonCrossing), as well as its main imprint AmazonEncore, which launched in 2009.
  • (19) Well here's what they'll someday learn if they have a soul; there's no romance in a mouse click.
  • (20) The sidebar is dominated by the French romance Blue is the Warmest Colour, winner of the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes film festival, and the dark Italian satire The Great Beauty, which swept the European film awards last weekend.