This team-building exercise is great for quickly establishing intimacy among a team.
Prosecutors and police officers said predators "groom" a child, ferreting information to establish intimacy.
At the same time, Mr. Maron knows when to towel-snap verbally, generating conflict and establishing intimacy.
Not only does it establish intimacy, and make the medical history real, it also offers serendipitous findings of clinical significance.
Mr. Bush remembered names and details about people like no one else, Mr. Markle recalled, and had the political gift of instantly establishing intimacy.
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.
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.
Then he criticizes a vast majority of social media marketing, a message delivered with head-scratchers like "it's not the content, it's the context," and "everybody cares about hunting, what nets out is really farming". His tone slips quickly back and forth from comic to cautionary, and his patter is laced with obscenities, which is both a way to get laughs and to establish intimacy.
In the Hymn to Hermes, facetious non-truths establish intimacy and cooperation among those who understand them.
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).
