How to Use eroticism in a Sentence

eroticism

noun

• If that doesn’t sound like the height of eroticism, just wait.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2023
• Lopez has a knack for the steamier side of things, the eroticism explodes off the page.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• In the dances that follow, there is no overt eroticism.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• To include the eroticism was a choice that seemed crucial to me.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• Claudel and Rodin both reveled in youth, dance and eroticism.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• What does the Tea Party movement have to do with anal eroticism?
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2016
• Severed from the workplace intrigue of costumes and shoots, the show’s eroticism blooms.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
• In addition to its eroticism, the show is often, well, gross.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021
• The subtle and stylish eroticism of the old days, which as often as not was the contribution of gay artists, has lapsed.
  — John Banville, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• This is not far from Kafka, though the language leans toward eroticism rather than angst.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• And the acts of violence flavor the eroticism with a sadomasochistic tang.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
• The arc delivers a perfect shot of nostalgia and a rare flare of eroticism.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• In contrast, the most interesting thing about the self-eroticism of 2017 is how unwilling the actors are to go fully in on the bit.
  — Eric Thurm, GQ, 30 Aug. 2017
• There’s a ragged eroticism within this performance, born of the allure that comes with a star willing to play with their own image.
  — Vulture, 29 Dec. 2022
• Two others got down on all fours and tucked their heads deep into one another’s shoulders, in a scrum of male eroticism.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2019
• There’s no shortage of evidence for yes: the breasts and buttocks like googly eyes, the jagged planes making nonsense of Delacroix’s hushed eroticism.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
• But that proves to be only its aesthetic: There’s neither eroticism nor thrills here, just a cute costume.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2024
• The lyric sound of the soprano Annemarie Kremer is well suited to the title role — and the orchestra likewise revels in the opera’s eroticism.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
• In The Shrouds, there’s no parasite or outside peril to spread disease or stir eroticism, as in Shivers.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• As for the platform heels favored at red carpet events this year, Hemmelsack said the style plays off this eroticism as well as the surge in '90s nostalgia.
  — CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• The beauty shots capture all the austerity and eroticism of haute couture.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• Every one will grow not only the series’ thriller aspect but also its eroticism.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 8 Nov. 2021
• But there’s also an undeniable eroticism to youth (duh), hence why the schoolgirl/boy gets its own chapter in the book of pervy cliches.
  — Karley Sciortino, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018
• This hard-knock eroticism pervaded some of Bacon’s paintings, as well.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 7 Apr. 2021
• Certainly Eros is preferred, but erotic love, not just of another person, but of the world, of food, of eroticism itself.
  — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
• As awareness of the epidemic increases so should the incidence of foot eroticism.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2012
• Get those words down, the tension and strange eroticism—find a way to name it—of their desire to help out, and the way, hours later, your sister came home, smiling and manic, and laughed at your father’s concern.
  — David Means, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Her commitment to the film's eroticism and go-for-broke attitude distracted some from what the movie was really trying to say.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2024
• Showalter’s direction grants the film an eroticism without ever showing us more than a hint of bare bottom.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 May 2024
• Have more of a loosey-goosey attitude towards pictorial eroticism in all its gooey forms?
  — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2006

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024