How to Use homoerotic in a Sentence

homoerotic

adjective

• And then Chris and I got to work on our homoerotic nature show, Wildboyz.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2022
• In Finland, the Finnish artist known for his homoerotic art is a household name, so the film played to a wider audience.
  — NBC News, 16 May 2018
• The working-class Liverpudlians found the homoerotic themes in Mr. Ellis’ work to be eye-opening, to say the least.
  — Alex Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• The working-class Liverpudlians found the homoerotic themes in Mr. Ellis’s work to be eye-opening, to say the least.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• Mapplethorpe put a pulpy homoerotic stamp on the formal beauty of the male nude.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
• Are our favorite over-50 hunks going to fall in love and make real the homoerotic tension that has been plaguing them for decades?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021
• The homoerotic, dialogue-free black-and-white short was shot at his childhood home while his parents were away, depicting Anger in the arms of a man in the style of La Pietà.
  — Vulture, 24 May 2023
• The homoerotic bond between these best frenemies is one fans still can't quit.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 12 June 2020
• Others writhe or sprawl, contributing to a sort of carnal junk yard, though with the homoerotic garnish of one good-looking young man in the background.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• The novel is saturated with the homoerotic, too mesmerized by the cohorts of the brave to be sorry.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• Noticeably, the homoerotic scene unfolds without much dialogue, which was part of Grandage’s plan for the film.
  — Louis Staples, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2022
• In a tender scene hazy with homoerotic potential, Ben-Zion and Lloyd lie on the floor, their skinny legs entwined, caught up in a silent timelessness.
  — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2021
• All the while, fascism encroaches on the promiscuous, homoerotic fun of the club.
  — Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2024
• Set in Djibouti, the film explores the repression of homoerotic desire among a troop of French Legionnaires.
  — Christian Vasquez, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2020
• Only the jokey homoerotic banter stamps it as typical of Mr. Ritchie’s work.
  — Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• The author’s Twitter presence is a post-post-post-ironic blend of jokey homoerotic photos of bodybuilders and boorish far-right memes.
  — Ian Allen, The New Republic, 1 Oct. 2019
• Many of his works, which engage with hip-hop culture, have a distinct homoerotic quality as well.
  — Pelican Bomb, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• Outside the town, Mr. Tracy is known for his paintings and sculptures that at times are homoerotic or steeped in his Catholic upbringing and sense of social justice.
  — Serena Solomon, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• The other major change is that all the coy homoerotic subtext of their relationship is now overtly text.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2024
• The editors had expunged key passages of the novella, whose homoerotic decadence risked the censors.
  — Jane Kamensky, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
• While not quite homoerotic, the bond between Benny and Johnny is stronger than family.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
• Every time two cowboys point their guns at one another on screen, there’s something homoerotic at play.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2023
• At first, the boys keep up a summer-camp spirit, indulging in hazing rituals and homoerotic horseplay.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
• Nicolas Di Felice’s collection was inspired by Querelle, the homoerotic ’80s arthouse film, as well as fetish-wear.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
• Mike Pence has a different view of how foreign affairs works — a simpler, more rugged view, with distinct homoerotic overtones.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Aug. 2017
• Wilde’s writings may be homoerotic, but the prose remains coded and demure; prurience was reserved for the bedroom, and eventually for the courtroom.
  — Colton Valentine, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
• Anger began making films as a teenager, and his surreal, homoerotic 1947 short film Fireworks is considered by many to be the first gay narrative film made in the United States.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
• But a sharp political punch came in the implication of official sanction for the the work’s homoerotic overtones.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The film's love triangle and homoerotic undertones have inspired hundreds of stories on the fanfiction site Archive of Our Own.
  — Morgan Sung, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2022
• The two of them bond fiercely and spend all their waking hours giddily parsing their environment for homoerotic subtext.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 17 June 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024