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n. (plural of marriage English)
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Marriages is a 1998 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Cristina Comencini. For her performance Cecilia Dazzi won the David di Donatello for best supporting actress.
Marriages is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 2012. The band is composed of vocalist and guitarist Emma Ruth Rundle, bassist Greg Burns and drummer Andrew Clinco.
Usage examples of "marriages".
In affairs of marriage both parties should rely to a great extent on the advice of friends, for mere marriages of inclination are often unhappy.
I calculated that as two hundred piastres were assigned to each as a dowry in case of marriage, the founder must have calculated on two marriages a year at least, and it seemed probable that these sums were made away with by some scoundrel.
In less than six weeks three of her girls made excellent marriages, and six hundred crowns had been added to the yearly income of the house.
There had been marriages between the two families certainly as far back as the time of Henry VII, and they were accustomed to speak, if not of alliances, at any rate of friendships, much anterior to that.
At Paris men are actuated by the same views, and most marriages are matters of convenience.
How Marriages are Arranged I have said that women are not sentimental, i.
A man in full possession of the modest faculties that nature commonly apportions to him is at least far enough above idiocy to realize that marriages a bargain in which he gets the worse of it, even when, in some detail or other, he makes a visible gain.
Compulsory Marriage I myself once proposed an alternative scheme, to wit, the prohibition of sentimental marriages by law, and the substitution of match-making by the common hangman.
Late Marriages The marriage of a first-rate man, when it takes place at all, commonly takes place relatively late.
Another reason for the relatively late marriages of superior men is found, perhaps, in the fact that, as a man grows older, the disabilities he suffers by marriage tend to diminish and the advantages to increase.
The number of such marriages is enormously greater than appears superficially, for both parties obviously make every effort to conceal the facts.
Within the circle of my necessarily limited personal acquaintance I know of scores of men, some of them of wealth and position, who have made such marriages, and who do not seem to regret it.
It is a commonplace, indeed, that many happy marriages admit a party of the third part.
As the sons and the daughters grew up there came fresh marriages, and more and more children, all the promised crop, all the promised swarming of a race of conquerors.
Some of these families were second marriages of one or other partner, with new families, and older children who stayed at weekends.