He ends by finding a hopeful, almost Romantic, optimism, while still clearly seeing the pessimistic psychological limitations of being the species we are.

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Harried, chased, both hunted and hunter, the blunt-nosed Matt Damon is a superhero reduced to pure reflex, yet, by means of his isolation and his stoicism, he becomes almost a romantic figure.

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It's almost like a romantic comedy, but it's like a buddy comedy as well because he and I really share the screen for most of the movie.

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As I was watching " Brown Sugar , " I realized that I'd come to this very likable romantic comedy almost color-blind.

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Although the hero created himself out of the whole cloth of romantic yearning, we see almost nothing of that self-creation, only the conflicted result.

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The potato starch gives the photographs a grainy, almost pixilated, quality, creating a romantic, old-world feel: fitting since many capture cultures on the brink of extinction through globalization or colonialism--something Kahn was quite concerned about.

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As for romantic love, it was an almost mutually exclusive category of human experience.

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However, the struggle in the inner world, the one that is insidious and almost invisible, can have lasting negative effects on future romantic relationship and the possibility of contentment.

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The Aranui is that romantic breed of working ship that takes a small contingent of passengers in almost-cruise-ship style.

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