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The tone is smarmy, the characters charmless, and the phrase "anti-romantic comedy" was bandied about on the panel like a badge of honor.
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The trouble is that, despite her bracingly anti-romantic view of the countryside, France is rather less disciplined when it comes to the subject of romance.
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"We wanted to write an R-rated anti-romantic comedy," David A. Newman, the film's other original writer, said.
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But I suppose that romantic, yet anti-romantic in another way.
Romance or Signalling Game?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The anti-romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer won best screenplay, and the British drama An Education was given best foreign film.
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The metaphor is an appropriate one, for "Arms and the Man" is an "anti-romantic comedy in three acts" (Shaw's phrase) in which he deploys the high-flying rhetoric of 19th-century opera to twit those benighted creatures of flesh and blood who behave as though the real world worked that way.
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Your most recent film, (500) Days of Summer, was described as an "anti-romantic comedy".
Zooey Deschanel: 'I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying'
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In Greenberg, Ben Stiller plays an eccentric anti-hero in an anti-romantic comedy, a borderline mental case.
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After brainstorming with his Webmaster and wife, Wellington came up with a concept to showcase the anti-romantic vampires of his newest book Thirteen Bullets.
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Born in Liverpool in 1946, Peter Reading has been described as an "anti-romantic" poet; he is also perhaps one of the finest, most formally versatile poets of the late twentieth century.
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