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In short, they're a form of foreplay.
Then," he tells the panel, "just a bit of foreplay".
What we hear is the language of foreplay, of fantasies being tendered in soft voices.
Valmont is, basically, a seductive sociopath and erotomane for whom strategy is a type of foreplay.
As president, a hectic political schedule and back spasm excused him the "drag of foreplay".
You know where it's going, but there's an intelligent amount of foreplay before we get there.
"There was a lot of foreplay about this campaign," Mr. Light said, laughing.
"A lot of foreplay, mucking around, games, teasing, hard work and then, usually very late at night, a miracle".
Brutus is brutish (unless threatening a bound and gagged woman with a power saw is your idea of foreplay).
So they quarrel a lot (their favorite form of foreplay) and then have sex (offstage, just in case you want to bring the children).
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Call me old-fashioned, but I have never much subscribed to the putting-on-a-condom-as-an intimate-part-of-foreplay theory.
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