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lovemaking

[luhv-mey-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

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

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

The beautiful gallery which the bridge supports must have known much gayety; much dancing and promenading up and down; much lovemaking and some heartache.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow




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