The phrase "achieve intimacy" is both grammatically correct and usable in written English.
You could use the phrase to refer to the process of creating a deep bond with another person, typically in a romantic relationship. For example, "My goal in this relationship is to achieve intimacy and understanding with my partner."
At first, they fail to achieve intimacy, and then they succeed, as David Bowie's eponymous track plays.
Yesterday (a second salute to the Beatles) is also about the need to know and the attempt to achieve intimacy through a third party.
So Diane Arbus has been misunderstood because the world is unaware that she spent time with her subjects in order to achieve intimacy (Arthur Lubow, Sept. 14)?
Despite some recent unhappy experiences, there remains a good case for bringing into Whitehall successful businessmen who are given time to achieve intimacy with a given department.
"I like keeping it to 50 people," said Mr. DiGennaro, who like other hosts also likes to sing a song or two before the headliner, "because the whole point is to achieve intimacy, and after 50 it defeats the purpose.
She goes on to describe the central symptom of the disorder – the narcissist's failure to achieve intimacy with anyone – as the result of them seeing other people like items in a vending machine, using them to service their own needs, never being able to acknowledge that others might have needs of their own, still less guess what they might be.
She is most expressive with her face, achieving intimacy with just a few gestures.
Common sense suggests that achieving intimacy in most of our daily relations would be not only impractical but intolerable.
Achieving intimacy with a subject often requires a photographer to spend a lot of time and take many pictures, most of which will never be exhibited.
Prayer is how we draw ourselves closer to God, achieving intimacy and acceptance.
Friendship and romantic love can't be achieved without intimacy, and intimacy, in turn, depends upon the selective and voluntary disclosure of personal information that we don't share with everyone else.
