1.   As with many modern romances, some of the consequences have been painful.

2.   A pair of movies open this week that deal with the complicated nature of modern romance in very different ways.

3.   But in ski jumping, as in modern romance, timing is everything.

4.   Director Nick Castle keeps making increasingly poor choices until the film just drags on and fizzles out like all too many unfulfilling modern romances.

5.   In modern romance after dreary modern romance, comic energy gets soaked up in psychobabble and misplaced sensitivity.

6.   In New York City, three Irish-Catholic brothers find their strict religious upbringing and strong family ties are a bit restrictive when it comes to modern romance.

7.   It was a modern romance, at once pure and complicated.

8.   Jaffe is a quick-witted woman who defies any stereotype of the modern romance writer in America.

9.   The horrors of modern romance are nothing compared with the horrors of bringing a movie about them to the big screen.

10.   The mating dance between an orchestra and a prospective music director can be as circumspect as an old-fashioned courtship or as frank as a modern romance.