Now here was this music, like the final clue in a treasure hunt: raw but carefully constructed, intimate yet formal.
In carefully constructed intimate dramas, such as those by Robert Bresson (L'Argent, 1983) or Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise, 1984), the setting can embody the tone of the film.
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson (1998), edited by Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith, is a selection of the poet's correspondence with her sister-in-law.
This intimate, carefully tended new musical, which opened on Monday night at Second Stage Theater, takes on some of the nastier aspects of rowdy young servicemen stewing in testosterone, including a woman-humiliating ritual that gives the work its name.
(He intimated that he did).
We have to skirt borders very carefully when talking about intimate things, not least because he doesn't want to be defined by his relationships with supermodels.
For more than two decades the magazine has served as a de facto public relations agency, exchanging reverential coverage (and payments that can run to six figures) for intimate if carefully choreographed access to elusive celebrities.
Using an extremely intimate and carefully paced narrative style, McPhee recounts a deceptively important tennis match: a semifinal at the 1968 U.S. Open between Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner.
Where the blues as played by the Allman Brothers is sprawling and expansive, this music is intimate, tightly focused, carefully arranged but never stiff.
"They gradually open themselves up, at very superficial levels of their personalities, and carefully move on to more intimate areas," he said, as if opening doors in a house.
They are also usually more modest in scale and ambition, and more intimate: the artist carefully observing and rendering a specific object or the outline of a larger scene.
