I was still good friends with several former lovers, but the romance never seemed to last.

Nowadays, people are so busy that romance seems to be slowly dying out.

Not the first two weeks, of course," she added between sobs, "but afterward, when we settled down, the romance just seemed to die.

Even the budding romance between two teachers seems to burn with more angst than passion.

The show's romance with numbers may seem a little over the top, but it's a time-honored obsession.

But then their romance with the American art world seemed to evaporate almost overnight.

In films, as on stage, romance seems to be unfashionable.

The romance seemed to sputter and Millay returned to her husband.

The romance of this seemed to strike him strongly for an interval.

Indeed, at their weekly Rainbow rendezvous, romance seems still to burn.