Some surprise has been expressed by a friend of great competence at my leaving out Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Such marriages (liaisons we call them) are frequently mentioned in Hindoo literature (e.
Their parents settle it all for them, French fashion, and after the liberty they have enjoyed, and the liaisons they are sure to have made, this interference on the part of the old folk must be very aggravating to the young ones.
The husbands do not expect them to be chaste; they take no cognizance of their temporary liaisons so long as they are not deprived of their services.
There is not the slightest doubt that Balzac was devotedly attached to Countess Hanska, although his devotion to her did not prevent his having numerous liaisons with other women.
At one time he was going to write an essay on "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," at another he had planned a book on Rousseau.
Nevertheless, the peasant girls prefer their liaisons with the genuine article, and the poet reveals no idyls, no abstinence, no innocent play, but downright immorality.
Thus it happened that by chance one day I heard a dignified person and a senator of the Empire give the Empress, in the gayest manner imaginable, very minute details as to one of the temporary liaisons of Count Lucien.
When he had any liaisons he kept them secret, and concealed them with great care.
The Countess at this time was well known, both on account of her astonishing beauty and the scandal of her liaisons with Lord Paget, the English ambassador.
In these clandestineliaisons he feared scandal, hated the ostentations of vice, and I can affirm on honor that the infamous desires attributed to him never entered his mind.
Liaisons within the caste are usually overlooked, but a woman going wrong with an outsider is expelled from the community.
Sexual intercourse before marriage between a man and girl of the tribe is condoned so long as they are not within the prohibited degrees of relationship, and in Kalahandi such liaisons are a matter of ordinary occurrence.
A woman going wrong with a man of another caste is finally expelled, but liaisons within the caste may be atoned for by the usual penalty of a feast.
She made and broke liaisons with amazing rapidity while undergoing a compulsory sojourn at Coppet.
The story of cruelty to his wife grew in its enormity, his reported liaisons multiplied beyond all human reason.
The Vicomte de Valmont, the hero of Choderlos de Laclos' famous and realistic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, an absolutely cold and cunning seducer, was its god.
These two liaisons were to some extent contemporaneous; the Roman Elegies and the famous letters to Charlotte von Stein were written at the same period.
It is very significant to find that Sordello, that typical champion of chaste love, kept up a number of questionable liaisons with all sorts of women.
But if the reader thinks that this summary is a prelude to anything like the "slate" that I thought it proper to bestow upon Les Liaisons Dangereuses, or even to such remarks as those made on the Goncourts, he is quite mistaken.
He is not like Valmont of the Liaisons Dangereuses,[136] a professional and passionless lady-killer.
Moreover, I had had many liaisonswith clever women, and the result had not been flattering to me.
After numerous liaisons he became for a time the lover of Comtesse Sabine Muffat, and under the pressure of Comte Muffat was forced to give to Nana a leading part in La Petite Duchesse.
Her liaisons were numerous, and included Mahoudeau, Chaine, and Jory, but after the death of her husband she married the last named, settling down into respectability and ruling him with a rod of iron.
I don't propose to form any more liaisonsof that sort.
I can't blame you; for I know that liaisons like ours can't last forever.
Once they were intimate he had, with an easy, genial air, confessed to all sorts of liaisons in Europe and America.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liaisons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
