Or maybe they do – and more intimately than she realises.
They knew the evils of the South — as Negroes, much more intimately than I ever had.
As much as we invite the world to see us more intimately than ever, that intimacy remains by invitation only.
But new research suggests it also matters much more intimately than we imagined, even down to our most personal relationships.
The audience would know the songs, not to mention the history of the band, much more intimately than he did.
Julio César Cu Cámara knows the dirty side of Mexico City's water system more intimately than anyone.
But with Bruno he might have let us get to know him far more intimately than he might have liked.
But most of the African-Americans who sustained the boycott knew the New Testament a lot more intimately than they knew the Fourteenth Amendment.
These letters, discovered after her death, are highly personal and, being so great in number, they chronicle Larkin's feelings more intimately than anything we have read before.
"It's become a bit of a joke that they know my book much more intimately than I do," Mitchell wrote to me.
"There isn't much that happens east of First Avenue and south of 14th Street that he doesn't know more intimately than nearly anyone else".
