dalliance

How To Use dalliance In A Sentence

• Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
• Keira's last dalliance with the Pirates franchise (she's not returning for Part IV) failed to resolve any off the major problems that Dead Man's Chest encountered.
• The band's R&B dalliances push the song 'n' the band forward from simple slash 'n' burn to a cocky swagger.
• Art historically, they imaginatively summarize his stylistic dalliances with Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism and the period's interest in ‘primitive’ art.
• Not that there's anything much at stake in all of this, for he isn't a realist, and the same-sex dalliances he discloses are pure Hollywood fantasy.
• But, sir, according to my judgment, you do understand both of and by yourself that here stealth signifieth nothing else, no more than in a thousand other places of Greek and Latin, old and modern writings, but the sweet fruits of amorous dalliance, which Venus liketh best when reaped in secret, and culled by fervent lovers filchingly. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
• He won a first-class degree in natural sciences in 1868 and, after a four-year dalliance with a career in medicine, was chosen for the Challenger expedition.
• That’s not in conflict with what you said, and I agree that an individual who wishes to overlook the dalliances is free to do so (and in essence even free to amend the interpersonal contract to allow such behavior — this is not as uncommon as people think). The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”
• We stayed pretty close (even had a couple more dalliances, but neither of us was laboring under any illusions that we could restart it, so it was okay).
• Silly ghost stories are otherworldly dalliances, whereas Frankenstein projects dilemmas of coherence and comprehension that are a permanent challenge for narration.