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I'm tempted to make some joke about detumescent ministers, but perhaps I'd better leave it.
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I'm tempted to make some joke about detumescent ministers, but perhaps I'd better leave it.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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So it is with great pleasure that I watch the detumescent Edwards slink away, tail between his legs.
Rielle Hunter conveniently refuses to subject her baby to a DNA test to determine whether John Edwards is the father. Ann Althouse 2008
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With its detumescent stock price and less than Gremlin-like growth in same store sales, it might seem like Wal-Mart, the world's largest whatever, is on the ropes.
John Dicker: Wrestling Wal-Mart for Data... Sad but True 2008
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Spiritually detumescent, they do not seek wholeness in the university.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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Spiritually detumescent, they do not seek wholeness in the university.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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This is true whether the penis be erect or detumescent.
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For while it is undoubtedly, as we see even among animals, a process by which sexual tumescence is accomplished, [115] it by no means necessarily becomes focused in sexual detumescence but it may itself become a detumescent discharge of accumulated energy.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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Any human relationship is an automatic detumescent.
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Imprisoned in its overgrown swimming pool, its proud, 6-foot dorsal fin had flopped over, a symptom of stress and a symbol of its detumescent state.
Politics Jed Lipinski 2010
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