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

Most of the tragedies in the novel result not from too much lovemaking but too much getting even.

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

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

In Persia itself there was no courtship or legitimate lovemaking, for the "lover" hardly ever had met his bride before the wedding-day.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus