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

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

Rare Gal�pagos tortoises were coaxed to mate at the San Diego Zoo after keepers provided enough sand for them to dig their own "nests," the only place they apparently consider suitable for lovemaking.

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

But nesting-time with the birds is one of sentiment as well as of industry The amount of affectation in lovemaking they are capable of is simply ludicrous.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 5 May, 1897 by Various