Sentence examples for intimate description from inspiring English sources

It is certainly the most intimate description of an Afghan household ever produced by a Western journalist.

Honor Moore's memoir of her father is remarkable in its intimate description of a man of true faith and of how his faith grew to be palpable in her life.

The drama's third day, and final act, would play out as much in the war councils as on the grim battlefield, and Sears recounts it all with intimate description and considerable authority.

Never end a clear, intimate description of an emotional event with a cliche.

The show steadily widens its view from the intimate (descriptions of Bukowski's slovenly person and way of life) to the chaotic world at large.

Her latest texts range from unnervingly intimate descriptions of a preadolescent girl's body ("Down the spine your ribs spring softly.

He chronicles literary and clinical achievements, but the most memorable sections are more intimate — descriptions of an enthralling road followed during a cross-country motorcycle trip or of the "deep, almost geological changes" when he fell in love with his current partner, Billy Hayes.

As each volume is translated into other languages, Knausgaard's literary fame increases while his notoriety becomes somewhat more theoretical: in his own (small) country, his intimate descriptions of friends and family and of his social and professional milieux were regarded as invasive and brought him in for much criticism.

Seldom heard in the conversation surrounding refugee issues, however, are intimate descriptions of what life is like for a single person displaced from their home country due to persecution or conflict.

Roman sexual humor, it seems, when not simply gross-out comic description of intimate body parts — Martial wrote a notorious poem involving a loquacious vagina — hinged largely on the question of who might be on the passive end of any copulatory squirming ("I thought 'twas you that played the man / But find receive is all you can").

Though the messages made public to date stopped short of soliciting sex or proposing an assignation, some were quite graphic and asked for descriptions of intimate actions.