The phrase 'intimate something' is grammatically correct but it is not commonly used in written English.
It is more often used in conversation to indicate that something has been implied or suggested but not stated explicitly. For example: "With her silence, she seemed to intimate that she didn't agree with my opinion."
And it is intimate: something serious is happening between these two people.
I always have empathy with this character because he's a guy who is struggling to make his new film, he wants to tell something intimate, something important".
Swearing always aims at something intimate, something usually hidden, which is why the words are often so explicitly and violently sexual.
Certainly the rise of Hitler darkens it, and later paintings like The Robing of the Bride intimate something monstrous, evil, deathly at work in the world.
For Ms. Veirs, marvels and cataclysms are intimate, something to sing about with an acoustic guitar and a breathy familiarity that's almost matter-of-fact, even when she's imagining that "furnaces burn everlasting black tattoos of you on me".
Like Ms. Sherman's noirish image, cinematic mirrors often intimate something unsettling: a lurking voyeur, say, or the possibility of a creature from a scary parallel universe suddenly popping into view.
"Faute morale" is not French for "complete abuse of power", but rather intimates something far more nebulous, artificial, even.
There is a poetry here that intimates something of the hold certain valued objects can have on inchoate feeling and imagination.
At first, I was inclined to take this symmetry of phrasing as a clue, one that intimated something not about the architecture of the novel's plot but about the architecture of its prose.
Nevertheless, this soaring ghost of a chimney floating next to Trajan's Column is the most impressive artwork in the show – and the only one that intimates something vivid about the history of this museum.
There's a reason "going to a conference" has always intimated something untoward in movies and TV.
