Away from the gilt and bombast of the abbey's lofty 14th-century nave, there were perhaps 30 others on hand that day, from among the millions of visitors to England last year, each of us partaking of an experience intimate, profoundly universal and available to anyone.
They are deeply personal, inescapably intimate and profoundly moving.
This book, too, is an intimate and profoundly realistic novel of family life and close relationships, with a triangle of characters at its heart who compare themselves with the characters in Tolstoy's War and Peace.
They were profoundly intimate performances.
Yet Eyre's production is above all profoundly intimate, proving with intensity the stranglehold the past can exert.
They are locked together, in front of the hundred-odd players, in something so profoundly intimate that watching seems almost like spying.
What Mr. Saint Laurent was doing was leading his clients slowly through their closets, a gesture that, as the show gathered momentum, began to seem profoundly intimate.
For Scorsese, the technical side of the movies doesn't just provide opportunities and delights but also quasi-metaphysical mysteries and profoundly intimate modes of self-discovery.
Winterson tells me that the intense upset she felt on discovering the unexpectedly long and profoundly intimate time she spent with her birth mother has been clearly, if unconsciously, expressed in many of her novels.
This profoundly intimate movie focuses on the stormy relationship of Diane, the family's 42-year-old matriarch, who is in recovery from crack addiction, and one of her daughters, Love, the single mother of a baby boy named Donyaeh.
Pregnancy, delivery, early mother-infant interactions, and construction of the parent-child relationship involve not only profoundly intimate, intrapsychic and intersubjective events but also medical, social, and cultural events which all become a part of the process of transmitting life in an open group.
