intimacy
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“If a phone call is intimate and your conversations on a regular basis are snapshots of your face making funny images, then the idea of going into deep intimacy must be absolutely terrifying.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
The resulting intimacy is appropriate for the play—and the $20 ticket price is all but unheard-of—but the sight lines can be dicey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
According to Oseman, Locke and Connor were also heavily involved in selecting a new intimacy coordinator, Robbie Taylor Hunt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The room smells of old cigarette smoke, old rubber, the worn intimacy of cloth too long against flesh.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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If you were familiar with the old museum, the enormous new one—which at times feels inhospitable to the intimacies art requires—may be more than disorienting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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
“Peep Show” is shot mostly POV-style, and it revels in all the awkward and crude intimacies of one’s thoughts.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2023
He wanted to tell her something about himself, too, wanted to exchange small kernels of intimacies with her.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Power Suffix: -acy
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