Sentence examples for harsh intimacy from inspiring English sources

There is a harsh intimacy to these photographs, which bring us as close as possible to car-crash victims, suicides, and mass murderers confessing their crimes.

A tour through these five states this week, when millions of people were well into the thick of early voting, found a big land pulsing with the harsh intimacy of battle in the campaign's closing days.

Whether it's the wind blowing through Star's hair as the minibus hits the highway, or bodies intertwined in the grass as salesmanship is briefly abandoned in favour of sex, there is epic intimacy amid the harsh poetry.

Each is using the other, which turns out to be a better basis for intimacy and solidarity than the harsh politesse of the office.

There, he encounters a wide range of inhabitants whose harsh mores, petty venality, amiable frivolity, and furtive intimacies come anecdotally to the fore.

Every track, gentle or harsh, leaves Ms. Woodroofe's voice exposed in all its doleful intimacy.

On Wednesday, Mr. Goode — with his wife, the violinist Marcia Weinfeld, at his side as page turner — produced a glowing, warm sound that traversed the full dynamic spectrum from hushed intimacy to agitated power without ever sounding either contrived or harsh.

I felt the intimacy of the moment, how quickly something that could have been harsh had turned into something kind.

Yet the intimacy remained.

Intimacy is our currency.

Gradually an intimacy develops.