His recent relocation from Hartford to the Connecticut countryside, gardening, backstage politics, his latest musical discoveries, his fondness for intimate dinners, his horror of cocktail parties: all these yield delightful volleys.
Welsh's quality of attention to their speech, spoken and interior, is immaculate, and it's in this intimate transcription that his fondness for these guys is made unmistakable.
But some of Mr. Alvarez's choices, including his fondness for shooting intimate exchanges in extreme long shot, come off as mannered and seem as if he were borrowing a visual style rather than trying to develop one.
The Great Republic, edited by Churchill's grandson, Winston S. Churchill, culls the significant chapters from the larger volume and organizes them alongside articles and speeches to present a view of America that bespeaks not only the author's formidable skills as an historian but also his abiding fondness for some might say his intimate connection to the United States.
Perhaps our fondness for confiding in non-intimates is more evidence for what's been called, in possibly sociology's most famous paper, the "strength of weak ties".
There is a lot of dirty talk in "Easier With Practice," an intimate drama about a fledgling author with a sensitive soul, a fondness for romance novels and an imagination that skews toward the raw.
Elizabeth Kubany, 44, who works in the Flatiron district, expressed a fondness for the current configuration, suggesting that the separated cars were more "intimate," binding passenger to passenger in an increasingly antisocial age.
I soon learned that Amsterdam (and Holland, more generally) is home to a friendly, passionate, intimate film industry; it seemed that everyone working the festival had worked on some project together before, and their fondness for one another was palpable, as was their commitment to connecting films with audiences.
That fondness shines through.
