intimacy

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Burden internalized this pattern, of foregrounding the importance of the paterfamilias at the expense of real intimacy, of keeping up appearances despite the private pain.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

"It's awful and you feel naked and open to attack because you worry about being rejected and maybe sometimes that will happen but when it doesn't that's where intimacy and close relationships start to grow."

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

His love for his new fiancée—he only recently ended his fraught marriage to the actress Patricia Neal, having begun his liaison with Liccy well before its dissolution—comes through in moments of quick, quiet intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Alfredo intensifies his passion for Violetta in the next number—again a waltz-duet, slowed down to allow greater intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Pauline Hawthorne’s work, she learned, was known for its immediacy and its intimacy, for interrogating images of femininity and identity.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng