Deepening the mood of romantic agony was the voice of Dionne Warwick sobbing "A House Is Not a Home."

(He is not writing, after all, about the romantic agonies of a young intellectual living in the sixieme arrondissement.)

Nina Gordon, formerly of the rock band Veruca Salt, played Jewel-like ballads that spoke of horses and romantic agony.

Onstage, a lover sang in obvious romantic agony to a well-dressed princess who remained half-hidden behind a tree.

My taste for poetry exhibiting attitudes of romantic agony was what attracted her to me in the first place; of course she was familiar with my work.

There's a similar "eureka" scene in The Social Network, but here Mark Zuckerberg is motivated by romantic agony and status shame, not money.

The romantic agony that had bewitched him was a million miles from the conjugal love he was now determined to celebrate.

Such effusions of romantic agony combined with Hurley's remarkably crisp visual record serve to collapse history into a universal truth.

Throughout her two albums, Ms. Etheridge has demonstrated a knack for finding heated images of romantic agony.

As she throws her head back in an exaggerated gesture of romantic agony, one's first impulse is to run for the smelling salts.