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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

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

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

Boys and girls read Lorna Doone; but the girls skip all the fighting, the boys all the lovemaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Equally substantial and corporeal, eating, drinking, lovemaking, and fighting are the divine folk of the síd or of Elysium, or the gods as they are represented in the texts.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch




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