The phrase "intimate relation" is perfectly correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used to describe a relationship between people, often a romantic one, that is close and trusting. For example, "The couple finally revealed their intimate relation to their families."
Notice, to begin with, the intimate relation between thinking and inferring.
The intimate relation between choice, covenant, and Torah determined the modality of Israel's existence.
It has an intimate relation, then, with that other four-letter word that underlies Trump's appeal to voters: fear.
Because of their intimate relation to one another, the religious and the moral have often been confused.
But as the historian John Herman Randall wrote, "the effects of Leonardo's version of this intimate relation between man and nature were not scientifically disturbing".
The cranium the part of the skull that encloses the brain is sometimes called the braincase, but its intimate relation to the sense organs for sight, sound, smell, and taste and to other structures makes such a designation somewhat misleading.
The failure to notice the intimate relation between the morphophonemic structure of the language and the type of orthography has led some scholars to underestimate the efficiency of consonantal writing systems and, perhaps, to overestimate the centrality of the invention of the alphabet to the evolution of Western culture.
This tendency toward intimate relation among the standard four movements reflects the urge of these composers to seek unity on the highest hierarchic level a trend foreign to most of their lesser contemporaries but a basic factor in the symphony's evolution throughout the next two centuries.
This means that knowledge stands in an intimate relation to power.
The suggestion is made that this is (or can be) an intimate relation.
Bhartṛhari, the most notable Grammarian, highlights the intimate relation between language, thought, and knowledge.
