What's the difference between romance and venetian?
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.
Venetian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Venice.
Example Sentences:
(1) A retrospective review of 470 consecutive frozen section consultations from two Venetian hospitals (O.C.R.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Venetian Condos in Oliver Unfortunately, Edmonton has a lot of rather odd and uninspired architecture, particularly that dating from the 1990s and early 2000s.
(3) Factors reflecting the concentration of high-density lipoproteins in serum were assessed for 108 men and 106 women participating in a Venetian screening program for hyperlipoproteinemia.
(4) From Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (Of Sorts) by Russell Norman (Bloomsbury, £25).
(5) On the fringes of this zone are villages such as Bhatta-Parsaul, just a few minutes' drive from the "Grand Venezia" development that, says the blurb, will provide shoppers with an authentically Venetian experience, right down to gondolas on artificial canals.
(6) The 40s influence is everywhere: in Rachael’s Joan-Crawford shoulder pads, the striped shadows cast by Venetian blinds, the atmosphere of defeat.
(7) At this point a Venetian high-roller appears at the table and demands that the director stand up to have his picture taken.
(8) We base ourselves just outside the fishing town of Rovinj, its harbour-side cafes and cobbled piazzas overlooked by streets of handsome baroque and renaissance buildings, built between 1283-1797 when Rovinj was the Venetian empire's prized Blue Pearl.
(9) Group 3 included 7 cases with thrombosis in the main trunk and Venetian blind-like veins in both the submucosa and lamina propria.
(10) There is also a $5,000 weeklong stay at the Venetian, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, that was part business and part personal.
(11) He emblazoned one of the walls of the British pavilion with a mural of a colossal William Morris rising up, kraken-like, from the Venetian lagoon and sinking a millionaire’s super-yacht.
(12) It was destroyed by one of the many earthquakes that the island suffers, but the Venetian castle remains remarkably intact.
(13) Most Afghans seemed to glide up the centre of the lobby staircase with their shawls trailing behind them like Venetian cloaks.
(14) The extent could be divided into 3 groups: Group 1 included 5 cases with thrombosis in the main trunk of the varix alone, which connected with longitudinal veins (so-called "Venetian blind-like or sudare-like veins") running for 3-4 cm upward from the esophago-gastric junction.
(15) 20-26 August, reclaimyourself.co.uk BEST FOR SUN Hatha in Ithaca, Greece Facebook Twitter Pinterest International teachers lead different weeks between May and October at Itha108 , a gorgeous island retreat just five minutes from the Ionian sea, where accommodation is split between a Venetian-style house and five Mongolian-style yurts.
(16) Modelled on Venetian wine bars or bacari , with style cues from Manhattan's West Village, Polpo had opened the previous year and had helped jolt the moribund Soho dining scene into life with its unpretentious food, exposed brickwork and egalitarian no-bookings policy.
(17) His predecessor, Ashley Highfield, also travelled to Vegas, checking in to the Venetian Hotel.
(18) This study reports the analysis of heavy metal (Cd, Co, Cu, Cr, Hg, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn) and As accumulated in the mollusc Mytilus galloprovincialis collected in the Venetian lagoon between March and September 1988.
(19) I have iron put into the windows and tell myself they're prettier – quite Valencian, really – with the white wrought-iron and the white venetian blinds.
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