brief liaison

It was a time of brief liaisons and temporary gladness.

He has a child from a brief liaison.

Worse still, his brief liaison with Clearwater ran contrary to everything he had been taught.

Mougouch, feeling increasingly closed off from her husband, had a brief liaison.

After a brief liaison, Ruby worked every John Garfield picture.

For brief liaisons the enthusiasm is sufficient, but for an extended relationship, the maturity is necessary.

He had a brief liaison with Konstancja Łubieńska at her family estate.

Brief liaisons.

He had intended a brief liaison with her, something that would mean little to either of them, and perhaps even put another thorn into Stanhope's hide.

But then that they had had a brief liaison; depression (and dismay that she was depressed and a little jealous).

True, he and Aili-the ensign-had shared a brief liaison before he'd met Deanna, but it hadn't meant anything.

He looked up at her, then automatically peered past her at the rest of sickbay- as if to see if anyone would notice a brief liaison.

After Wells parted from writer and novelist Rebecca West, it is well known that Wells took up brief liaisons with other women.

He is Rosette's father, following a brief liaison with Vianne, but Vianne has never told him this.

Karl von Sievers (1710-74) owed his rise to a brief liaison with Tsarina Elisabeth.

O'Brien also stated that the affair was not a brief liaison, but a mutual, committed relationship based on love; or so Edwards had led Hunter to believe.

A brief liaison with a prostitute inspired his best-known novel, Bubu de Montparnasse (1901), which earned him critical as well as popular attention.

She also begins brief liaisons with first T'vril, then Nahadoth himself, the latter of whom seems equally drawn to her, though his motives are unclear.

"I-was Some new human sense warned him not to tell her honestly that he regretted their brief liaison and could not for the life of him tell why.

Keith Barron played Mrs Telford's theatrical colleague who was keen to have an affair with her, and with whom she did have a brief liaison.

As their separate lives play out with marriages, children and jobs, they reunite for brief liaisons on camping trips in remote settings over the course of the next 20 years.

After one of our necessarily briefer liaisons, I asked why she even bothered with the sewing and was informed that she derived a great deal of satisfaction from it.

When she moved back to Beijing years later as a student at the Peking Women's College, she had a brief liaison with him, after which she became pregnant.

Michael tries to make a point about humanity by having bitter Christine meet eager Thomas, and there is a brief liaison, but one born of loneliness more than of understanding.

Down there were the shadowy shapes of men and women leaving the taverns arm in arm, heading for brief liaisons in back alleys and squalid rooming houses.