family romance

On the other hand, the family romance is so reassuring.

Is this particular family romance a product characteristic of its time?

In the normal legend they represent what is known as a family romance.

The family romance is more often than not a kill-or-be-killed situation.

But the family romance with baseball fades a bit as the brothers mature.

The family romance gives way to the romance of journalism.

There is some family romancing here - not surprisingly, since few of the adoptive parents in this book would be anybody's first choice.

For all his nihilism, however, a family romance continued to unfold in his work.

Ira is "flushed now with regret," but the family romance grows no less brutal, only more so.

That was part of the Family romance.

No Freudian family romances to trouble us here.

The family romance is a latency-period fantasy, belonging to the drowsy years between 7 and adolescence.

For a Russian, repression always comes from the outside world, not from the family romance internalized as inhibition.

"Why, my dear, it is our family romance.

But here we are in "Beloved," nine years out of slavery, with a full-blown Freudian family romance.

Instead he made a terrifying masterpiece about the horrors of "the family romance" and the cannibalization of culture.

The memoir offers a catalog of nightmares that the Walls children were encouraged to see as comic or thrilling episodes in the family romance.

OF course, there's a case to be made that the perverted family romance both silenced Roth and hurt him into his finest art.

Repeatedly, he returned to his complex family romance and tried to decode it in all its detail and byplay.

The youngest of seven surviving children, he seems to have absorbed the horrors of his own family romance with a particular receptivity.

It is also a family romance, and "nurture is a particularly important theme in Octavian's treatment of the family."

Both show that schizophrenia is a brain disorder like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's rather than the product of a traumatic "family romance."

The Family Romance Bleak conversation is one of the staples of contemporary fiction.

The Family Romance of the French Revolution.

The family romance is as old as the English-language novel itself - indeed is ontologically inseparable from it.