"The crime novel is intensely romantic because one death - among the billions of deaths - has a truly allegorical meaning," she said.

And yet, for all that her relationships were intensely romantic, they seem to have been sexually tepid.

Meals were delicious and, in caves filled with candles, intensely romantic.

For me its seduction has always come from the intensely romantic encounters I've shared with other actors.

"The Piano" is intensely romantic on several counts.

To give one example, the intensely romantic death scene that triggers the film's concluding sequence is something quite foreign to the martial arts genre.

No. "The truth is that, while I am an intensely romantic person, there has always been a primary relationship in my life," he said.

There are also volumes of intensely romantic and ancient exotica.

Published as a book in 1986 by Aperture but now exhibited for the first time, these powerful images are both intensely romantic and horrific.

This attitude may seem intensely romantic, but was acceptable to Eliot because sanctified through the anthropological eye.