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postcoital

/ pəʊstˈkəʊɪtəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the period after sexual intercourse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

I was giddy to reunite, but the sentiment deflated when, in a postcoital moment, he put on his sneakers.

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.

The brass section explodes, the drums attack, the strings squeal, then everything falls apart in postcoital detumescence.

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.’”

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.

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