postcoital
Britishadjective
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I was giddy to reunite, but the sentiment deflated when, in a postcoital moment, he put on his sneakers.
From Los Angeles Times
Also unmoored: a passage of postcoital pillow talk for Walter Lee and Ruth, created by turning dialogue that’s usually spoken live into a recorded voice-over.
From New York Times
The brass section explodes, the drums attack, the strings squeal, then everything falls apart in postcoital detumescence.
From New York Times
Nonetheless, we’re clearly supposed to read this half of the book as an odyssey of overdue erotic awakening: “I felt like a monster. A pervert. A sociopath. I wanted to be touched. Tenderly. By someone who understood how complicated everything was. I wanted to smoke postcoital cigarettes in someone else’s king-size bed while saying, ‘That was amazing.’”
From New York Times
For her Salzburg debut, the Latvian American director Yana Ross asked European writers under 50 to devise new scenes using “Reigen,” a cycle of 10 pre- and postcoital dialogues, as a rough guide.
From New York Times
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