Sentence examples for intimate affection from inspiring English sources

Perhaps most striking is their open expression of love between husband and wife — a most defiant touch in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where intimate affection is customarily expressed only in private.

He is wearing his dressing gown ("Kenneth always sloped around in his dressing gown") and is gazing out of the canvas with a wry, intimate affection that is almost too private for outsiders to witness.

The process by which the impatient, slightly callow teenager became the brilliant thinker and writer — that stumble from jungle to abyss to the firm terrain of literary achievement — is traced with intimate affection in "Sontag: Reborn," a spellbinding X-ray of a writer's psyche that opened on Thursday night at New York Theater Workshop, starring Moe Angelos and directed by Marianne Weems.

On a physical level we express caring through sharing life activities, a home, intimate affection.

For many, I'm sure it was the first time they saw two black men showing intimate affection toward each other.

Most are candid, some are posed, all are joyful -- simultaneously conveying a sense of intimate affection, while also not being a big deal at all.

At first, you may think, Oh, it's that damn prison movie again, but "Starred Up" has a much more intimate texture of affection and disdain than most genre films.

"The best preparation for loving the world at large, and loving it duly and wisely," he wrote in a letter, "is to cultivate an intimate friendship and affection for those who are immediately about".

Chances are if you were to list off the ten things your partner found to be the most intimate signs of affection, then gave it to them to read, you'd probably miss the mark on eight out of the ten. .

In Vedic literature, Mitra and Varuna are portrayed as icons of affection and intimate friendship between males (the Sanskrit word mitra means "friend" or "companion").

Such sharing of another's values for his sake, which, Helm argues, essentially involves trust, respect, and affection, amounts to intimate identification with him, and such intimate identification just is love.