intimacy
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What is even more interesting is Tavitian’s enthusiastic response to works noteworthy not for elaboration but for economy, directness and intimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The sweetness, the warmth, the intimacy in a seemingly tossed-off phrase—her songs could be 2½-minute novels, they could be love notes left on a kitchen table, they could be secrets whispered into your ear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Put simply: It’s more difficult to maintain the true intimacy than it’s ever been.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Heughan said the series, which ended this year after eight seasons, did not initially have intimacy co-ordinators and "we were very much left to our own devices".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
For some time now my grandmother had suspected the growing intimacy between Milton and Tessie.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Her film rejects the idea that one has to give up the close intimacies of friendship once you transition into a coupled-up phase of life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
His mind slalomed elegantly through the intimacies of his body, his marriages and his neighborhood, but never through ideology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The lines that had once been carved in laws and norms are obsolete in the eyes of an algorithm designed to lure you into the performative intimacies of strangers’ lives.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025
In a mega two-hour, dual album, released in two parts as "The Tortured Poets Department" and "The Anthology," Swift pens 31 different heartbreaks, triumphs and intimacies — tortured poems if you will.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024
There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one’s own yard of intimacies.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Vocabulary lists containing intimacy
Power Suffix: -acy
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan
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