intimacy

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Sinatra’s idea, however, was to start with love songs and put them into a swinging, danceable tempo, but at the same time to retain their intrinsic intimacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 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

He offered both Fanning and Smith the opportunity to work with an intimacy coordinator, but neither felt it was necessary.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 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

In all these weeks he had never come to so close an intimacy with the Savage as Helmholtz immediately achieved.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley