illicit love
Example Sentences
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A narrative seems to emerge of illicit love and rivalry, a tangled emotional soap opera.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020
At its height, it had three episodes a week, featuring illicit love affairs, hidden identities and all manner of small-town hypocrisy.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2018
Bellini’s “Norma,” which has returned with new cast members after opening the season in September, depicts a powerful woman — a religious and political leader — struggling with illicit love and its momentous consequences.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2017
With stories set in the ’60s through the ’80s, Collins weaves fictional narratives about relationships gone awry, illicit love, and strained family dynamics with memoiristic details from her own life.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2017
She loved him as women love the child of an illicit love; obliged to suckle him, the duty never wearied her.
From The Hated Son by Balzac, Honoré de
