"establish intimacy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the development of an intimate relationship between two people. For example, "Over the course of the last year, John and I have worked hard to establish intimacy in our relationship."
Prosecutors and police officers said predators "groom" a child, ferreting information to establish intimacy.
Not only does it establish intimacy, and make the medical history real, it also offers serendipitous findings of clinical significance.
Profiles are surveys completed by online Internet users for entry into chat rooms or games and can be accessed by anyone with minimal computer savvy to establish intimacy.
Her ability to inveigle, quickly to establish intimacy despite her shyness, to be invisible, served her well once she got to the Observer.
As Charles Fried observed (in developing an account of contract law based on the law's promissory roots and thus on the idea that contract obligation is "essentially self-imposed") (1981: 2), contractual trust does not establish intimacy but rather serves "humdrum ends: We make appointments, buy and sell" (1981: 8).
Crucial for you to maintain a distance between yourself and the aggressive young man who has indicated in many ways that he wants nothing more than to collapse the protocol of distance between professor and student, annihilate borders, establish intimacy.
At the same time, Mr. Maron knows when to towel-snap verbally, generating conflict and establishing intimacy.
Mr. Bush remembered names and details about people like no one else, Mr. Markle recalled, and had the political gift of instantly establishing intimacy.
In the higher echelons of New York and Los Angeles society, merely asking a question about someone else is taken as evidence of savantlike people skills, but Huffington's attempts at establishing intimacy can seem almost poignantly forced.
By the last few months of "SAVE THE DATE," the artist said that he had problems with both communication and establishing intimacy with other people.
"The essence of kissing is all about intimacy and communication...the kind of kiss that really fires my imagination is the one that establishes intimacy -- or re-establishes it for the thousandth time".
