It's unromantic.

Oh, how unromantic.

My barbaric Ninotchka... my impossible, unromantic, statistical...

I'm afraid you'll continue to find it unromantic.

A goodlooking young man like you must find duty in this place rather unromantic.

And I couldn't choose airplanes because they had gotten sort of unromantic at that point, even though I'd done a lot of airplane work, on the interiors.

And here's the unromantic truth and the city air makes you free, they said in Renaissance Germany. So some people go to places like Shanghai but most go to the squatter cities where aesthetics rule.

But in intimate relations it's much more difficult because, with your wife or your boyfriend or someone that you hope might turn into one of those things, we have this illusion of romance and trust and intimacy, and nothing is quite so unromantic as the, My condom or yours, darling? question.