But something more powerful, and probably less intimate than having a laugh with your pals, is under way.
You may have never set eyes on an oil palm tree, but it's probably an intimate part of your everyday life.
She and Franklin probably became intimate in 1916, and the affair was discovered in September 1918, when Eleanor, unpacking for her husband, who had just returned from England with the flu, discovered a bundle of incriminating letters.
For many of us (particularly those of us who do not own Kindles), Google eBookstore will probably become an intimate part of our lives rather quickly, primarily because an eBookstore account is fully integrated with a main Google account.
I have in mind the brave excellence of Bobby Short, the forty-six-year-old singer and pianist, who, one of the last examples (and indubitably the best) of the café singer or the supper-club singer or "troubadour," as the late Vernon Duke called him, practices what is probably the most intimate and delicate form of live entertainment extant.
He'll perform a weeklong trio gig in support of that album later in the fall, but here's something different and probably more experimental: intimate performances with a quartet that includes the bassist Tarus Mateen, the drummer Eric McPherson and the singer Alicia Hall.
I think it's probably the most intimate I've made.
But when he succeeded, with Joe Biden, the result was probably the most intimate, empathetic interview of 2015.
For all we talk about nightclubs being communal spaces, the experience of losing yourself in one – I mean, really losing yourself – is probably the most intimate and inward-looking you're ever going to get.
For all we talk about nightclubs being communal spaces, the experience of losing yourself in a club, I mean really losing yourself, is probably the most intimate and inward looking you're ever going to get.
