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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

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

His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health."

From Time Magazine Archive

It needs austere telling without a false word or a florid gesture�let alone the director's sudden lovemaking, that smashes The Country Girl to pieces.'

From Time Magazine Archive

There had never been any sentiment or lovemaking between them to mar a perfect comradeship.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)