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

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

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

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

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