"His work is a celebration, of life, of relationships, of small family moments.
Very early on, the film marked me and made me aware of the implications of relationships, of guilt.
Like other New Yorkers, the guests and the new couple said they had begun taking stock: of relationships, of jobs, of life in the city.
The legal scholar John Langbein once characterised wealth management in terms of "relationships of long and uncertain duration, usually measured in lives".
The film's bland impersonality is grotesque; its element of pornography isn't in its depiction of sex but in its depiction of people, of relationships, of situations that, for all their unusualness, bear a strong psychological and societal resonance.
These are activities one might call kin care or family care: the maintenance of relationships, of visits, the co-ordination of schedules, the remembering of birthdays, the sending of Christmas presents.
She was performing Sara Pascoe v History, a winningly eclectic anthropology of relationships, of why they fail and how they might succeed – which secured her first (long overdue) Edinburgh comedy award nomination.
The comfort of relationships, of simply touching someone's hand, reaching across and making a circle during a dance or joining in group singing, is important to human beings of every age.
As for Cassavetes, he does the same and more: in addition to his exaltation of the lives in his circle, he gets at the heart of relationships of friendship and love more deeply than almost anyone.
In these books, too, she examined a spate of breakdowns — of communication, of relationships, of families, of sanity — and the often turbulent psyches that lay beneath her characters' calcified British middle-class exteriors.
Howard Rubenstein is widely regarded as a public-relations expert, and that does describe much of his business, but he is perhaps above all a master of relationships, of making connections; he is a kind of lubricant of the city's gears — someone who searches for ways to make those gears mesh.
