He said: "It's a family of deep-rooted closeness and unity coming from very desperate times.
But certainly a deep drive towards closeness, and physical closeness, as lovers know, is in itself a kind of love.
In this time of widespread anxiety, insecurity and fearfulness, the deep craving for closeness is hugely real.
Conversations about violence could actually promote a deeper interaction and closeness between the midwife and the woman.
Our deepest yearning is for closeness during the holidays, says David Treadway, PhD, author of Intimacy, Change, and Other Therapeutic Mysteries: Stories of Clinicians and Clients.
Slinging tradition (Tradisi Gendong) gives a deep impact on parent's closeness and warmness toward their child.
Cox agrees that there's a difference between the "connection" of endless, unhealthy browsing of Facebook and comparing oneself to others that can make people feel isolated, and the "closeness" of forging deeper friendships and civic ties.
There's an intimacy in her music — a closeness that probes deeper than a peek into someone's diary, a nearness that results from hearing every quake of her vocals.
Themes like loss and closeness are layered and deep, though not hammered out specifically.
"Intensely mystical," Sheldrake told me, "private, like the deepest, darkest, densest forest humidity and closeness".
