Not just Stalinism as something imposed and official, something comfortably alien, but something intimate to his patriotic, upwardly mobile Soviet generation, from which, with astonishing and lonely determination, he managed to alienate himself.
Then the full impact of the Snowden revelations set in, and people started to feel funny when they texted something intimate to a lover or typed a potentially embarrassing query into a search box.
No, vaping always looks to me like you're doing something very intimate to a fountain pen.
But the company wanted to follow up with something more intimate, to show its range and prove that smaller works needn't vanish in the imposing center.
"I've returned to my old method of simply keeping track and doing something more intimate to let people know I care.
I embraced The Box as a way to do something more intimate – to focus on a three-character story, instead of a 20".
And so that we could express our gratitude for being allowed to participate in something so intimate to them, the E&O had prepared gifts for us to give the elders in return, an exchange that made our presence on their territory feel less like an intrusion.
Has it been a deliberate strategy to go from working with Lars von Trier and doing mainstream work such as Australia and then shift to something intimate and small such as Rabbit Hole and Stoker?
As the site says, "Finding doctors who are on our side is hard enough, and when it comes to something as intimate as our internal plumbing, it's even more difficult".
But Ritchie is on to something: the intimate kinship of drawing and thinking, spun out to epic extremes.
