Passenger by Tang, Kang Sheng

“…Through the night they rekindle the past and romantic interest grows that was already there before. …”
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In tune by Chee, Celine Yan Yee

“…A film about a repressed single mother who struggles with her sense of self and sexuality after finding out that her son's female piano teacher has a romantic interest in her.…”
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Animal Magnetism: Metaphoric Cues Alter Perceptions of Romantic Partners and Relationships. by Andrew G Christy, Kelly A Hirsch, Rebecca J Schlegel

“…Even the use of "attraction" to refer to romantic interest, commonplace in both popular and scholarly discourse, implies a force propelling two objects together. …”
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Female Nurses and Educators Reactions to Sexual Harassment Charges: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by Eros DeSouza, John B. Pryor, J\u0092aims Ribeiro, Juliana Mello, Cleonice Camino

“…Specifically, 155 U.S. professional women (95% White) and 173 Brazilian counterparts read a fictitious newspaper article describing an alleged case of sexual harassment by a male instructor toward a female undergraduate, in which power, romantic interest, and discrimination concerns were manipulated. …”
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How to Flirt Best: The Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Techniques by T. Joel Wade, Jennifer Slemp

“…Study 1 (n = 40) and Study 2 (n = 60) sought to discover the actions that men and women, respectively, engage in to indicate romantic interest to a partner. Study 3 (n = 110) sought to determine which flirtatious acts from women are perceived as most effective by men. …”
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Do Men and Women Exhibit Different Preferences for Mates? A Replication of Eastwick and Finkel (2008) by Dylan F. Selterman, Elizabeth Chagnon, Sean P. Mackinnon

“…Consistent with previous findings, our results showed that participants were more romantically interested in potential partners if they were viewed as attractive and good potential earners, and these associations were not moderated by gender. …”
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King Solomon’s Mines on film: modernity in reverse? by Stephen COAN

“…Later versions substituted an invented white female character as the romantic interest for either the book’s hero, Allan Quatermain, or his fellow adventurer, Sir Henry Curtis. …”
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Nordic Gods in Classical Dress: De diis arctois by C. G. Brunius by Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich

“…The subject of the poem fits perfectly in the intellectual movement of the period, namely national romantic interest in the Nordic antiquities. The six books represent a summary of Eddaic mythology from the creation of the Universe until the Ragnarök. …”
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Luigia Codemo: appunti per una biografia intellettuale by Adriana Chemello

“…Influenced by the romantic interest for the “good and gentle customs of the common people”, Codemo aims to “educate and polish the crowd’s manners”.An unknown chapter of her life is the philanthropic action, which intersects a developing female occupation in the contemporary Venice. …”
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“UNHAPPY YOUNG MAN.” A HERO-SUFFERER IN ITALIAN ROMANTIC PROSE by Elena Yu. Saprykina

“…Being a feature topic of the Romantic literature, it is intimately linked with the central Romantic interest in a person’s probing into “selfhood,” into spiritual depths and moral assets. …”
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Distinct roles of early life deprivation and unpredictability in shaping mating-related behaviours and sexual harassment perceptions by Chen Xu, Shijin Sun, Xiaoyan Zhang, Zhechen Wang, Zhechen Wang

“…Study 2 revealed that childhood unpredictability was positively associated with misperceptions of sexual interest, defined as perceiving mutual romantic interest even when one party experiences unwanted sexual attention. …”
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Perceived Effectiveness of Flirtation Tactics: The Effects of sex, Mating Context and Individual Differences in US and Norwegian Samples by Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, T. Joel Wade, Miriam Tekeste Tallaksen, Trond Viggo Grøntvedt, Andrea M. Kessler, Rebecca L. Burch, Mons Bendixen

“…To attract potential mates, men and women exhibit flirtatious behavior to get the attention of, and potentially elicit sexual or romantic interest from, a desired partner. In this first large, preregistered study of judgement of the effectiveness of flirtation tactics based on Sexual Strategies Theory, we considered the effects of flirter’s (actor) sex and mating contexts in addition to rater's (participant) sex across two cultures, Norway and the U.S. …”
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Travelling to a martyrdom by Thompson, C, Carl E. Thompson

“…</p> <p>Chapters 1 and 2 illuminate positive stimuli to the Romantic interest in misadventure, showing how suffering in travel could be regarded as signifying, variously, divine election, authenticity, moral worth, political protest, and much else besides. …”

SPECIFICS OF THE GRAND MOTHER IMAGE TRANSFORMATION IN THE SHORT STORY “THE LOVELY LADY” BY D.H. LAWRENCE by Lyudmyla M. Kulakevych

“…The title of the story, which refers to the platonic relationship between a pretty lady and a knight without trying to know each other physically, somehow directs the perception of female confrontation not towards the reclaiming of their female space, but to a rivalry for a romantic interest. Lady Attenborough is portrayed primarily as a pretty and intelligent woman, the object of male admiration, episodes or details that would characterize her as a mother are scarce. …”
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Political Opposites Do Not Attract: The Effects of Ideological Dissimilarity on Impression Formation by Stephanie R. Mallinas, Jarret T. Crawford, Shana Cole

“…Using potential mates as targets, we found that participants liked targets less, were less romantically interested in targets, and rated targets as less attractive after discovering political dissimilarity with them. …”
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Cinematizing the Victorian Novel to Cinema "Pride and Prejudice" by Nurul Aulia Rahmah, Diah Tyahaya Iman

“…Jane Austen's novels and clever heroines and romantic interests have been adapted into movies and television shows for decades. …”
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«It’s Not Carmen». Spain on the Russian Drama Stage of the Second Half of the 20th Century by A. B. Arefyeva

“…Thus, Pedro Calderón’s play «The Surgeon of his honour», staged in 1830 by the great Russian actor Vasily Karatygin, was a manifestation of Russian «hispanophilia» in the 1820s, nurtured by the Russian Romantics’ interest in the revolutionary events in Spain. …”
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Franz Grillparzer's dramatic heroines and women's emancipation in nineteenth-century Austria by McCarthy-Rechowicz, M

“…While several earlier studies have argued for the influence of Grillparzer's romantic interests on the construction of his heroines, sufficient attention has not been given to these heroines in the context of the intellectual women Grillparzer knew. …”