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

The idea of a sort of highborn Oxford, circa 1900, fits the play's alfresco gaieties, elaborate forms, donnish humor and prankish but decorous lovemaking.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had always said that a fellow had shown himself a bungler at lovemaking if he were not practically assured of the result before he came to the point of the declaration.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various