More impressively - to a prospective lover, anyway - he has been to France.

Although Elena seems more like an older sister than a prospective lover, romance eventually flowers between her and Alex at the same time that trouble brews elsewhere.

Ostensibly this comedy concerns the compartmentalization of prospective young lovers, each of whom never seems to know when he has found a rightful romantic partner.

The Lovers are overtaken by the love and overall more interested in that than in their prospective lover.

They intend to pursue liaisons with women, and moreover to depend on those prospective lovers for income, like gigolos.

They first ply the girls like prospective lovers, buying them meals and desserts, promising affection and then marriage.

James's careful, troubled dealings with prospective lovers also allow Mr. Toibin room for creative license.

The couplet at the end of each verse expresses the theme: a pledge made to a prospective lover in hopes she "will come through, too".

She now has no use for me at all in the role of prospective lover but will continue to play ball.

In that song, she warned prospective lovers, "You gotta get a J-O-B if you want to be with me."