Example sentences of "[art] lovers ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force .
2 They were beyond sense , and later , much later , when he met her mama and papa , who had not gone shopping after all , but were sitting patiently in Uncle Orrin 's drawing-room , and later still when Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella arrived , and they all had luncheon together , the lovers ' happiness was so patent that Jared Tunstall thought that his wilful daughter had found her true love at last .
3 Although every moment of the lovers ' experience is drenched in imagery , there is still a fine feeling of reality about the characters which gives them bone and muscle .
4 The lovers ' attempts to escape are frustrated , but the opera ends happily since the Pasha decides that magnanimity is the best course and releases all of them .
5 Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane .
6 The erosion has created a fan of scree which is rapidly encroaching on the Lovers ' walk path .
7 But if Eliot in the poem has adopted the personality of a fertility god , this god is a peculiarly Prufrockian one in the sense that for all ‘ The constant flame shall keep me warm , ’ he remains not simply a minor divinity , neither being nor meant to be Prince Hamlet , but also , for all the lovers ' attentions , an impotent ghost , ‘ A bloodless shade among the shades/ Doing no good , but not much harm ’ .
8 Mr Golyadkin 's response to the elopement letter was a two-in-one attempt to assume a chivalric role and reach a lovers ' destination .
9 So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble .
10 As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism .
11 Like a world war beginning from a lovers ' quarrel
12 Finally , we thought it might have been a lovers ' quarrel , but now I 'm not sure … "
13 On the pavement outside , two teenagers were having a lovers ' quarrel .
14 The Shipman 's Tale tells of a lovers ' triangle , involving a merchant who lives at St Denis ( France ) , his wife , and a Parisian monk who was regarded as their friend : indeed the monk and the merchant call each other cousin , as both are from the same village .
15 TWO young sisters died after petrol was poured through a letterbox and set alight during a lovers ' row .
16 At twelve or one , they would be sleeping idyllically , locked in a lovers ' embrace .
17 Rohmer swung downwards , seized Gilbert and dragged him to his feet , holding him as close as a lovers ' embrace .
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