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

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

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

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

Here was no room for the archnesses and coynesses of ordinary lovemaking.

From The Benefactress by Elizabeth