During such a visit he mentioned believing that the streets in heaven were paved with gold; a belief which, in its privateness, reminded her of her sister's fantasy.
A living room's semipublic privateness needs special treatment.
Instead, it embraces a politics of privateness, one that assumes, as a given, that the public realm, and public policy, can only accomplish so much, and that they should be limited accordingly.
"But an offline switch would be a welcome addition for it would give me an illusion of privateness (if not privacy)," he wrote in an e-mail.
An "awkward, but beautiful addition to my work", he called it: a collaborative antidote to "the privateness and loneliness of painting".
Orwell, who loved English ordinariness and individuality, and praised what he called "the privateness" of English life, would have been appalled.
Politicians who flourish in this new culture, such as Tony Blair and David Cameron, are those who can master what the linguist Norman Fairclough calls "public-colloquial discourse", a hybrid style that combines formality and casualness, ceremony and empathy, publicness and privateness.
Of course, Trierweiler is having to deal with the publicness of betrayal, and that is desperately humiliating; but I had to deal with the privateness of it (as most people who go through this have to do) and it was desperately lonely.
Although his poetry is a kind of titration or leaching of the world as it seeps into his mind, it is almost never confessional or personal: since the world seeps into everybody's mind, he believes that his poems depict the privateness of everybody.
Yet by directing her monologue to her children — the narrative's insistent, sometimes even intrusive "you" — Swift emphasizes the privateness of the story in a way that can leave the reader feeling excluded.
