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
• 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
• Those who were tired of spycraft getting mixed into the detective series, or who resented Mrs. Watson getting in the way of the homoerotic subtext between John and Sherlock, were happy to see the back of her.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 2 Jan. 2017
• 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: 4 Nov 2024