lovemaking

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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

Rare Gal�pagos tortoises were coaxed to mate at the San Diego Zoo after keepers provided enough sand for them to dig their own "nests," the only place they apparently consider suitable for lovemaking.

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

The idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Long before spring Billy was forced to own to herself that her fancied security from lovemaking on the part of Cyril no longer existed.

From Miss Billy by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)