In the 9th century, Māṇikkavāḫakar, in his great, moving collection of hymns in Tiruvācakam, sees Śiva as lover, lord, master, and guru; the poet sings richly and intimately of all sensory joys merging in God.
"She is the nation's favorite great-grandmother, seemingly known intimately to all of us for years," The Times of London declared in 1985, on the occasion of the queen mother's 85th birthday (she celebrated it by flying on the Concorde).
Not you and I, so why would I give you the opportunity to know me intimately when all you've asked me was how was my day and how long you're going to be here.
It is obvious that Clive not only knew the piece intimately — how all the parts contributed to the unfolding of the musical thought — but also retained all the skills of conducting, his professional persona, and his own unique style.
But the invocation of Proust is partly a ruse - whereas the novelist drew everything into the orbit of his private memory, the effect of Immemory is to suggest that Marker intimately recalls all the major events of the last 50 years, because he was there.
She's a complex and interesting character that interacts intimately with all these characters.
All of us know those two abstract nouns intimately and we all employ them constantly in our daily lives, usually – and fortunately – to a minor and insignificant degree: all social life, for example, would grind to a halt without the "white lie", or the "pieux mensonge", as the French have it.
"Like it or not, in this country, employment and health insurance and health care are all intimately related," he said.
The "levels of being," then, though distinct, are not separate but are all intimately present everywhere and in everyone.
