His focus, however, is domestic and intimate, concerned less with the horrors of the battlefield than with the interruption of romance, the disruption of families, the devastation of homes, and the victimization of civilians — in particular, the prevalence of rape as a corollary of warfare.
Then Rich burdens fellow novelists with the obligation "to pose the intimate questions" concerning the many ways the bad news about man's future affects us.
As young filmmakers, they met at the State Film Institute in Moscow in the early 1960's, when directors were trying to move away from the Socialist Realist themes of peasants and workers striving to build a better collective future; the new focus was on more intimate stories concerning the role of the individual in society.
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs reveals intimate details concerning the Apple co-founder's relationships with luminaries ranging from Silicon Valley pioneers and Hollywood celebrities to world-renowned artists and U.S. politicians.
Fredric Jameson's Marxist analysis highlights the polysemy of the shark and the multiple ways in which it can be and has been read from representing alien menaces such as communism or the Third World to more intimate dreads concerning the unreality of contemporary American life and the vain efforts to sanitize and suppress the knowledge of death.
Similarly, we intimate no view concerning the constitutionality of the New York procedures governing children "in need of supervision". See id. at §§ 711-712, 742-745.
Then they moved on to more intimate concerns.
People whose intimate concerns were already of intimate concern to them, or who hadn't deemed themselves political resisters, are not addressed.
It is an intimate concern of Ms. Ewald's now because of her son, Michael.
Much of Bloom's argument is based on utilitarian principles where the effective allocation of resources trumps the warm glow of a more singular and intimate concern.
What is really interesting is that a man whose volume of writings approach logorrhea could dissemble his most intimate concerns and feelings so consistently for so long.
