Booker isn't calling for a national love-in — an inward retreat that attempts to compensate, on an intimate scale, for the hostility of the world beyond.
During a forum for mayoral candidates on Thursday night, an unexpectedly bipartisan hostility emerged toward the intimate seating arrangement, which Mr. Bloomberg trumpets as a paragon of communication and cooperation.
Other domains ascertained were sleep, anger, cynical hostility, depression, anxiety, social support, intimate partner relations, and volunteer and social activities.
His share was only a slight one, but his wife was an intimate friend of Queen Marie de Médicis, and her hostility to the cardinal aroused Richelieu's suspicions.
"Towards such a party," he concluded, "the natural attitude of Liberals would seem to be not one of jealousy or hostility but of frank and intimate co-operation".
It is within the context of these additional experiences of violence and hostility that most survivors of intimate violence live out their lives, and most attain a measure of happiness, connection, and personal achievement.
His hostility towards me seemed to be very connected to the fact that I was his intimate partner and the closer we were emotionally, the more extreme his reactions became, both positive and negative.
He had few intimate friends, and not many men in American history have been regarded, during their lifetimes, with so much hostility or attacked with so much rancour by their political opponents.
In the whole of his correspondence with his follower and intimate, James Madison, which makes up 2,000 printed pages, it is impossible to point to any passage showing hostility to religion, by either of them.
