When two individuals in the same society form a team and collaborate to accomplish a task, their intimacy increases.
As I held each of her cool, delicate fingers in my hand and clipped, I took my time, relishing the intimacy of this simple task, taking it in as Sylvia's last gift to me.
But he's more interested in depicting the texture of the monks' ordered days and quiet tasks, the intimacy they share with one another and with the Muslims of the nearby village and the interior struggle of their leader, or prior, Christian de Chergé, as the terrorists move ever closer.
She describes the "intimacy versus isolation" stage, a task to be negotiated by the young adult, solely in terms of whether to commit to a lifelong intimate relationship.
He cultivates intimacy; he likes to enlist women in the task of helping him make decisions or solve problems, or to favor them with sotto-voce monologues critiquing other people in the room — commentary as camouflage for the come-on.
After the task, they evaluated each other on intimacy, task/social orientation, formality, politeness, attraction, and group identification.
Not because dusting is erotic, but because sharing household tasks makes for fairer relationships and intimacy - which is erotic.
In addition to a loss of intimacy, she may be saddled with such unglamorous tasks as cleaning up bathroom accidents, servicing medical equipment and fulfilling challenging dietary needs.
It's a daunting task to bring a sense of dreamy intimacy to the frenetic, neon-happy Tokyo.
To establish a barbed intimacy between the pairs of actors, Mills assigned them tasks in rehearsal — the kind of emotional calisthenics he'd picked up in an acting class and from working with a story guru named Joan Scheckel.
Hunt plays a sex surrogate who's tasked with introducing Hawkes O'Brienn to the pleasures of physical intimacy.
