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

Decades later he says the “brats” share an intimacy.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

You sense this in his work ethic and what it produces, an intimacy of form that implies an almost ritualistic attentiveness to the world around him on its own terms.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Even if we had been thrown on a desert island together, and lived there in intimacy for the rest of our lives, I should have been Mrs. de Winter.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier