Sentence examples for private intimacy from inspiring English sources

Hand-holding always felt like a complex act – the tussle between visibility and risk, public and private intimacy, activism and fear.

It was rarely practiced in East Asia, however, where bowing was the all-purpose form of greeting, and kissing was restricted to moments of private intimacy between the sexes.

In their quiet scenes together, Mr. Hart and Ms. Hackett find both warmth and reserve, and you sense in their silences and commonplaces the deep dynamic of a working-class marriage built on private intimacy and public respectability.

None of us wants to die alone and most of us, if honest, strive for a life of private intimacy with someone – the kind Karl Marx meant when he asked his wife in 1856: "But where could I find a face whose every feature, even every wrinkle, is a reminder of the greatest and sweetest memories of my life?" Statistically, at least, marriage seems to be the best way of ensuring this.

Part of Queen Bey's allure comes from the public image she projects of her private intimacy with her husband and daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.

The relationship is ultimately above the core values of love, caring and commitment- private intimacy alone is not the overriding component that defines the relationship.

But we don't like to see private intimacies turned into public pornography.

Surely pornography, by its nature, is unpleasant because it turns private sexual intimacy into a public spectacle and a commodity to be sold indiscriminately.

that would repeal the military's prohibition on some expressions of private, consensual intimacy (defined in Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice as "unnatural carnal copulation") by both opposite-sex and same-sex couples.

But Cunningham specialized in duets in which man and woman often seemed not even aware of each other, or where, amid partnering sequences, the dancers might stay withdrawn from each other in manners, private even within intimacy.

Anna suspects that Kennedy's sexual relationship with her, and others, was not a genuine and private act of intimacy but a "tactic" to further his mission of gleaning inside information about the environmental protest movement.