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lovemaking

[luhv-mey-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

In general Shaw was biologically cold: "My pockets are always full of the small change of lovemaking; but it is magic money, not real money."

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of them: Husband Jay wouldn't let her dance or play tennis with anybody but him, didn't like her theatrical friends, demanded full-fashioned meals, and was too demonstrative in his public lovemaking.

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

But it was long, very long, before Wilfrid could bring himself to pass the line which separates friendship from lovemaking.

From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George




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