Cellphones, which legally can't be reached by campaign "robo-calls," are the most intimate form of communication technology today.
"On the one hand, we have the most intimate form of violence," Sifton says of drone strikes, "while on the other hand, the least intimate of weapons".
In writing, we tend to think of the third person as less intimate, but in this context it made me see it as the most intimate form.
In his day, the piano sonata was the most intimate form of chamber music that existed far more so than the string quartet, which was often performed in public.
But that ill will often takes its most intimate form in small towns and rural areas like this one, best known as the home of baseball's Hall of Fame, where fracking has emerged as the defining, non-negotiable political issue.
With his mentor and longtime duet partner Mansour Seck on vocals and Kaouding Cissoko on acoustic guitar, this is a chance to hear Mr. Maal's fusion of griot music and Western pop in its most intimate form.
The intimate interactions allowed for an examination of the most intimate form of violence - one that creates creative action, powered by powerful women.
Minsu Kim, a designer educated at the Royal College of Art, has decided to turn this notion on its head by creating The Illusion of Life, a machine that imitates perhaps the most intimate form of human communication: the whisper.
The novel is the most intimate of forms.
