1.   Given that he and Bullock are such appealing and sunny contemporary types, they make unlikely casting for a period film, particularly a doomed romance.

2.   Like doomed romances and expensive home renovations, my affair with bamboo began with good intentions.

3.   Syndicated columnists from George Will to Ellen Goodman pontificated on the matter, some proclaiming the policy doomed romance as we know it.

4.   With its emotionally paralyzed hero, hints of doomed romance and double and triple crosses, the picture brings together traces of Hitchcock and operatic tragedy.

5.   Margaret in her day was as glamorous as Diana and both had turbulent lives marked by failed marriage and doomed romance.