Stage acting offered intimacy.
In your case, that is, your gentleman is offering greater intimacy, and you must decide if you wish it.
Not merely an intoxicant (or a soporific), it is for the French a sign of conviviality, an offering of intimacy, a social symbol meaning not just that this is what we share but that this is how we share.
Offering the intimacy of clubs, sometimes without the ticket costs and always without the distractions — no clinking of glasses or paying of checks during the set — library music rooms are attracting enthusiastic audiences for first-rate folk, modern jazz and classical concerts in and around Westchester County.
An hour later, the Tories' David Cameron was offering serious intimacy on everything from the economy, taxation, education and social policy to the Liberal Democrat crown jewels of political reform.
Two women and a man prowl and circle each other in shadow dances of unbearable intimacy, offering a repeated image of climbing and falling and climbing again.
The party was called Giorgio's, and in addition to offering the chic intimacy that the city's scenesters crave these days (patrons enter the dark lounge through a bright kitchen), it doesn't get started until midnight.
The Internet obliges by offering simulated sex without intimacy, without identity and without fear of infection.
Helen Mirren's Oscar for The Queen – the portrait format offering audiences a tantalising intimacy with the world's most famous woman, to the tune of $123m box office – sealed the switchover.
In offering their guests the intimacy of sleeping with or even inside an artwork the new generation of art hotels are giving us all the chance – at prices ranging from moderate to expensive, but always much less than actually buying art – to live like a collector.
