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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

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

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

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 L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery




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