Occasionally, this leads to the sort of gushy observations you might expect from a besotted lover.

And when Tartuffe peers down Elmire's bosom, one senses that more than lechery is moving him: there is a trace of the besotted lover as well.

She rolled off the bed and excused herself, and as she wandered naked towards the bathroom she waved like a besotted lover.

Despite her intense resentment of Komarovsky, Lara becomes very adept at using her sensuality to manipulate her besotted lover.

Veselov did not look at her directly, and yet Diana felt his attention on her as much as if he had been staring soulfully into her eyes like a besotted lover.

Like a besotted lover, she thought about her torment the whole time.

Gaidar recognized Mina's besotted lover, the elf king.

He's a besotted lover.

"Butterfly Kiss" is a dazed love story in which Eunice and her besotted lover lurch down the highway committing one ghastly crime after another.