Sentence examples for by intimacy from inspiring English sources

By George Packer Contemporary killing is defined by intimacy and distance, beheadings and drone strikes.

Where I'd spent my day surrounded by intimacy, this was enormous.

This is, after all, a hazard of a crime characterized by intimacy.

The symphonic scale, virtuosic brilliance and tumult of the "Kreutzer" are replaced in Op. 96 by intimacy and introspection.

He strives for images that are free, poetic, full of imaginative ambiguities and, at the same time, characterized by intimacy.

Take off their headscarves and Akbari's women could be social workers in Sheffield or hairdressers in south London, talking wearily about the struggle of working motherhood and love eroded by intimacy.

But rope-line encounters offer bits of drive-by intimacy amid the production.

One can learn much about candidates from how they handle the campaign rope lines, The Times's Mark Leibovich writes, which "offer bits of drive-by intimacy amid the production".

The degree of hospitality and gregariousness normal to most people has in her curious case been increased so that she enjoys two hundred guests to dinner, counts her friends in crowds, and is pleased not by intimacies but by numbers.

Holroyd proceeds at a furious pace, and, in less expert hands, the detail packed onto the page might bewilder; instead, the effect is of an epic, perfectly balanced by intimacies of setting and character.

Realizing weeks can go by without intimacy -- literally for a myriad of reasons -- we decided that on Wednesday, we would cook together.