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lovemaking

[luhv-may-king] / ˈlʌvˌmeɪ kɪŋ /


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His performance feels awkward at first—like Jason Biggs or Will Ferrell fretting about lovemaking and analysts in a late-era Woody Allen film—but it becomes more convincing as the play progresses, as does the play itself.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2018

Most of the tragedies in the novel result not from too much lovemaking but too much getting even.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the puns are leaden: a Rolls-Royce is a "flatus symbol," lovemaking is a "deathscapade," and a gourmet ponders whether there is "life beyond the gravy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Douglas, Jr., had rather a thin and weakling play on which to test his histrionic sinews; yet, seasoned by a good cast and gloriously spared the sickly meringue of lovemaking, it sufficed.

From Time Magazine Archive

This introduced of necessity an impossible and conventional bit of lovemaking and a recognition of a long-lost heir.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen


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