Sentence examples for both intimate and distant from inspiring English sources

That night, Reiner shows up at Damon's hostel, and the two begin an odd relationship that is both intimate and distant.

Women often dreaded, anticipated, experienced and adapted their lives to the blatant and discrete stigmatization they attributed to their HIV serostatus in both intimate and distant relationships [10].

It's a cento – a work constructed from another's words (such as Faltonia Proba's Latin account of Christianity, each line of which is actually a line of Virgil's) – and as such, is both intimate and yet distant.

Still fewer have the deeply bittersweet experience of sitting in a hushed house as MPs from across the parties – both intimates and more distant admirers – praise and mourn their dad.

The film, at once simple and complex, intimate and distant, is full of insights into film-making, society and human relationships.

"I'm Your Man" demonstrates that it's hard to write about a writer whose work is so language- and phrase-specific, so intimate and distant at the same time, perpetually engaged in the dance of seduction.

Being Capote, this became both intimate and obsessive.

The prose is extraordinary: rich yet measured, estranged and familiar, both intimate and austere.

The park was both intimate and rough and ready, like T. R. himself.

But she knew him differently, for who he really was, her memories both intimate and epic.

Gerontius' life/death struggle is both intimate and communal in the best sense.