Sentence examples for given intimacy from inspiring English sources

But the tales about brothers and sisters that appeal to me address something simpler: how there is no such thing as a given intimacy in families, though we often insist on it and feel entitled to our version of a shared past.

Much like the AIDS quilt, which with each square attempted to give intimacy to large-scale loss, they imply a refusal to go sedately into oblivion.

It may sound strange, given the intimacy of some of this material — including an ill-fated affair with a New Yorker cartoonist that ended with Groth attempting suicide — but the impression with which we're left is of a writer avoiding the depths, the difficulties, of character.

This, of course, is exactly what the public has been given: celebrity intimacy.

Given the intimacy of French society, especially at the top of the pyramid, it was more than a polite request.

Treating a baby sitter as a family member seems more than appropriate, given the intimacy of the job.

But the owners say they may not sell out this season, a shocking development given the intimacy of Fenway and the undying devotion to the Sox in New England.

Given the intimacy and physical support of the Linbury Studio (instead of the open wastes of the main auditorium) the work would at least have had a fair hearing, instead of becoming an object of near ridicule.

At a recent New York performance of "Job," his new play based on the biblical story, the audience had a similarly uncertain reaction to the graphic (and, given the intimacy of the 40-seat Flea Theater, truly in your face) violence, which included incestuous rape, necrophilia, sodomy with a broken stick, and an anatomically vivid castration that tipped the crowd into anxious titters.

"While owning a phone does not make a person responsible for these violations, it does link us to the atrocities, and given the intimacy and constancy of these objects in our lives, the connection is ever-present and thereby disturbing" says Daniel Rothenberg, a lecturer at Arizona State University who presented a paper in July titled Is your cell phone linked to atrocities in Africa?

Given the intimacy of Varroa mites with their hosts, this result suggests that the bacterium has some specificity to Varroa.