Romaction

"Romaction" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Let's combine the action and the romance and make a romaction story.

One wag has already named the offspring of this shotgun wedding: romaction.

Like the “romaction” genre that fuses relationships and car crashes (think “Date Night” and “Knight and Day”), hard-R comedies like “The Hangover,” “Bad Teacher” and last year’s “Ted” appeal both to young women and their male companions, a “two-quadrant” win that made studio suits swoon.

They reject his suggestion, asking instead to hear a story of action and romance. Skeeter then tells them a "romaction story" about Ancient Greece featuring Skeetacus, the inventor of the X Games.

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