"The specifics of their experiences of being sexually molested by him had remarkable similarities" — a series of after-class meetings, a period of growing intimacy, sharp criticism alternating with abundant praise, and, finally, demands for sexual acts.
Here Val Loukiano, balled up and inverted, locks his ankles around the neck of the squatting Jenny Campbell; their joint progress across the stage is a sign of growing intimacy.
In desperate need of renewed critical interest in his work, he approached Mumford with an admiring note, and they developed an often wary friendship that meanders from growing intimacy to a bitter break over the Second World War and then to a gradual reconciliation.
Given the popular desire to reverse human aging with a simple nostrum and the growing intimacy between commercial and clinical concerns, the trend may prove to be irresistible.
The three letters below offer a glimpse of the literary courtship and growing intimacy between Plimpton and Ernest Hemingway.
But their growing intimacy is nothing so straightforward as a romance, though it excites the sharp-eyed village gossips, who are already whispering about Mary Pascoe's illness.
Father Anderton's voice can be arresting even when he's describing heartburn ("I felt an empty, dyspeptic scorch as I drove to the school, like a rising argument at the centre of my chest"), and our growing intimacy with his inner voice describes its own arc of seduction and betrayal.
