amorous
Example Sentences
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Classic Hollywood directors like David Lean and Douglas Sirk knew the amorous potentiality contained in the human face, harnessing its elastic electricity to illuminate soaring embraces and aching breakups.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
The results do not just overturn previous theories about amorous and peaceful meetings between groups of people.
From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024
This becomes the focus of the rom-com with no rom, which replaces the notion of an amorous happily ever after with self-empowerment, never betraying its tagline: "She's everything. He's just Ken."
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2023
But it’s telling that Leon, obtusely obsessed with his disastrous book, can’t fully embrace the amorous potential of his surroundings.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2023
Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing amorous
All You Need is Love: Amor and Phil
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Romeo and Juliet
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"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
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