He may have contemplated telling them over dinner at a nice restaurant but when he pictured Manly excitedly dolling up (putting in their teeth and slipping into, beneath their best shell suit, some brand new intimates from the Terri Randall Collection) he figured the coming rejection would be too cruel.
He believes that the description of his intimates in his book amounted to an "unmoral" act.
Even among such intimates, boundaries are observed, for fear of crossing an unseen line and triggering a stare of blank, silent rebuke.
"People think we're too professorial," joke his intimates.
A score of intimates, drawn largely from two clans aside from the Thanis, runs nearly everything else.Such corporate streamlining has allowed Qatar to put its assets into action swiftly and efficiently, at a time when other regional actors, including America, have grown increasingly hesitant.
Nagging depression drives her to seek the services and the arms of a psychiatrist, Morel, the evangelical secularist.Mr Rush is a master at parsing the seemingly casual exchange between true intimates.
Marx may not have been quite the cardboard monster of legend; but, except in old age and among a few intimates, he was still pretty monstrous.Monster or not, does Karl Marx bear any responsibility for the atrocities subsequently committed in his name?
The rest, he intimates, without giving details, would come from slighter welfare and departmental cuts.These offers recall Britain's last big tax-and-spend election, in 1992.
No swimming pool can soothe the terror of supposed intimates who cannot sustain a conversation.
Unusually for a member of this fractious government, he has maintained good relations with both camps (helped, no doubt, by his younger brother, Ed, who is one of the chancellor's intimates).
He has notably failed in Zimbabwe, which he likens to the intractable problems of Northern Ireland; though if Mr Mbeki stopped giving Robert Mugabe free electricity, Zimbabwe's appalling leader would surely not last long.Redeeming the continentHis intimates say that Mr Mbeki has a fervour to do good in Africa.
