It's not an accident that in Europe a novel is called a romance.

When Goodspeed called it a "religious romance" it was to the literary genre he referred.

Ed and Anna have what people call a tempestuous romance.

That was the beginning of what she calls a "romance with mystery," not a bad description of her own passionately evocative, enigmatic films.

Hawke called it one of his favorite movies, a "romance for realists".

He then travelled to Burton where he continued to write the poem, which he called a romance at the time.

She described the art as "easy on the eyes" and sensual while calling it a "very uncomfortable romance".

He must come back to the house at once and have tea and see her husband, "I call this a real romance," she cried.

That is what the world calls a romance.

Together they enjoyed what might be called a chaste romance, though the week in question is omitted from the diary.