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
Most of the tragedies in the novel result not from too much lovemaking but too much getting even.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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Good, sound sense is much amiss in lovemaking.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie