Sentence examples for physical familiarity from inspiring English sources

I wouldn't want you taking things further sexually just to find there was only physical familiarity to keep the affair afloat.

"What is different about being a dancer is that there is a certain physical familiarity," Mr. Fayette said, explaining the significance of such a small gesture among dancers.

I've already been teased about my limited skills by a number of the world's best chefs, though Adrià — perhaps because the language barrier limits all but a kind of intuitive, physical familiarity (we like each other, but we can't really talk to each other, at least not well) — was in fact more respectful than most.

The physical familiarity of the Bank of England, used as a backdrop for TV reporters' dispatches, is a comfort.

Yet if you concentrate on surfaces, forms and the mechanics of sculpture, it often manages to overcome the gravitational pull of physical reality and familiarity to achieve its own kind of levitation.

What an animal attends and responds to when interacting with a conspecific depends on a number of social factors, such as the sex of the partner, the age, attractiveness, physical appearance or familiarity of that partner.

For example, a psychologist at one clinic indicated that physical proximity helped build familiarity and engagement in integrated care.

In recent years, the organization has shifted from weapons familiarity to sports, physical fitness and camping, but Dr. Affouneh said the Palestinian summer camps were essentially the same.

Laborde was surprised when the men expressed familiarity with complex physical features that she and her colleagues had previously observed in the lake.

"We thought it would be a neat trick where you have a physical environment that has a familiarity to this young guy and yet the people are completely alien to him.

However, these health teams would benefit from continued education programs to improve their knowledge regarding physical activity since few demonstrated familiarity with current physical activity recommendations or applied standardized instruments for assessing physical activity of patients.