The critic George Steiner defined intimacy as "confident, quasi-immediate translation," a state of increasingly one-to-one correspondence in which "the external vulgate and the private mass of language grow more and more concordant".
In stories about contemporary women trying to define independence, intimacy and friendship in their lives, Keener is the embodiment of a Holofcener heroine – funny and imperfect, optimistic and insecure, articulate and endearing.
Back in 2007, Leisa Reichelt, the head of user research at Government Digital Services in the U.K., defined ambient intimacy as "being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn't usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible".
By George Packer Contemporary killing is defined by intimacy and distance, beheadings and drone strikes.
First, we define the relative intimacy of individual m in reference to all friends of individual i as (w_{i,m} = I_{i,m}/sum_{m=1}^{N}I_{i,m}).
Yet she's hard-pressed to define what that is: intimacy, as it were, the thing that makes people feel close -- makes sex feel real and living together meaningful.
No matter how others may define it, I say intimacy is the act of exposing your genuine self through your deepest, inner most expression.
that would repeal the military's prohibition on some expressions of private, consensual intimacy (defined in Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice as "unnatural carnal copulation") by both opposite-sex and same-sex couples.
I find my intimacy, and I define the city in terms of the intimate moments it offers me.
"If they don't treat families as such, if they don't let patients define their own circle of intimacy and give them the dignity and care to be with their loved ones in this sort of crisis, then they will be held accountable".
