But when feelings bubble up and over, especially romantic feelings, then, well, illusions of rational control over emotions must be protected.

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But he was fundamentally a bit naive, always awash with strong romantic feelings, in pursuit of things and people to batten them on to.

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It seems only a matter of time before the willful Sita develops romantic feelings for Radha and the two women fall into each other's arms.

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It featured only women who had expressed an interest in pursuing a degree or career in the sciences and asked them to answer nightly questions related to their romantic or intellectual goals and activities on that day and their feelings about their attractiveness and desirability.

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The scenes in which Charu, the wife (Madhabi Mukherjee), and Amal, the cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee), sublimate their passion through literature have a comic-romantic charm: their proper sensibilities prevent them from ever admitting their feelings, let alone consummating them physically.

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