The phrase "act of intimacy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a moment or gesture that signifies closeness or affection between individuals.
Example: "The act of intimacy they shared on the couch brought them closer together."
Alternatives: "gesture of closeness" or "moment of affection."
FICTION, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy.
Events are often set in motion by an impulsive, ill-judged act of intimacy.
Generous teachers, passionate booksellers, friends for whom giving a book was a supreme act of intimacy and trust, helped me build it.
What the Kyrene School District in Arizona is discovering is what Charles M. Blow noted in "In Honor of Teachers" (column, Sept. 3): that the teaching-learning process is an act of intimacy.
In India, anyone caught in the act of intimacy, be it cuddling on the lawn of a public park or behind the bushes at a national monument is said in official parlance to be a "compromising position".
Anna suspects that Kennedy's sexual relationship with her, and others, was not a genuine and private act of intimacy but a "tactic" to further his mission of gleaning inside information about the environmental protest movement.
She used the lip-syncing technique in a 1998 short film, "Random Acts of Intimacy," based on accounts of anonymous sexual encounters.
The study went on to observe that small acts of intimacy – cups of tea in bed and watching telly together – tend to have a greater impact on our happiness than grand gestures.
The first was traditional: fleeting images of women in various acts of intimacy, spliced into videos playing on screens adjacent to the stage while the band muscled through hits like "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S)." and "Girls, Girls, Girls".
Acts of intimacy and frail hope in a vortex out there, of mad politics and distant wars come vengefully home to claim those who had simply gone about their lives.
In a key short film, Random Acts of Intimacy (2002), she recorded real people talking about their experiences of having sex with a stranger in a public place and then had actors lip-synch to their voices.
