There's also an intimate open-air Roman amphitheater, where on a recent evening Ms. Rottier found herself watching a riotously updated slapstick performance of "Rudens," by the Roman playwright Plautus.
Sarah McFarland Taylor approaches this world as an "intimate outsider". Neither Roman Catholic nor member of a religious order, she is a scholar well versed in both ethnography and American religious history who has also spent time shucking garlic and digging vegetable beds with the sisters.
He had been too frank in his criticism of the Emperor and had been intimate with a Roman in high position who was executed on some charge or other.
His father Józef was involved in the Polish National Democratic Party ("Endecja"), and the Lutosławski family became intimate with its founder, Roman Dmowski (Witold Lutosławski's middle name was Roman).
Mr. Camp notes that in the diary of his 1801 trip, young Dodwell quoted Tacitus in a manner that reveals intimate familiarity with the Roman historian's text.
"I'm pushing 40, don't applaud for me, I'm exhausted," Nas admits disarmingly on his opening number "No Introduction", and the articulate, provocative 39-year-old New Yorker is in reflective mood for this exuberant gig in Roman Abramovich's intimate club.
Cities seem more romantic when you share them with locals, and during the Roman winter, the intimate enotecas, or wine bars, are not teeming with tourists.
The Russian linguist and polymath Roman Jakobson became an intimate friend.
Modern buildings and old courtyard houses stand adjacently in a complex network of intimate alleyways which lays over a Roman grid plan.
Whether conjuring epic visions of Ancient Roman history or recording intimate views of domestic quietude, he produced works of nonstop graphic liveliness, extraordinary sensuousness and hypersensitive alertness to perceptual reality. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700, frick.org.org
