Sentence examples for specific intimacy from inspiring English sources

I suppose it's a cliché to say you're glad to be alive, that life is short, but to say you're glad to be not dead requires a specific intimacy with loss that comes only with age or deep experience.

A chamber piece capable of taking to a larger stage, as was shown when the first production transferred to Broadway, Mr. McPherson's writing emerges as made-to-order for the specific intimacy of the Donmar where, not surprisingly, the dramatist will direct the world premiere of his latest play, "The Night Alive," next month.

In this flexible power structure, the maintenance of power relations in the intergenerational parenting coalition is intertwined with the specific pattern of intimacy established between the parents and the grandparents.

It was really a very specific path of intimacy that they developed that resulted in ultimately their realizing that they were more than friends.

At home, the toilet block poses a specific problem related to the intimacy of the place.

It has created intimacy with soccer-specific stadiums and fostered stability with long-term television deals.

In the present study, this might have resulted from the specific focus on the development of intimacy and non-coital sexual practices in contexts where coital sex was difficult or no longer possible.

In particular, item 14 pertains to the patient's satisfaction with his/her sex life, and is therefore characterized as a very specific item that reflects the interviewee' intimacy.

But the one at the Obamas' home will have a specific 2012 spin, reflecting the illusion of intimacy on which campaigns now thrive.

Other purposes, he says, "are relief from certain oppressions and the attainment of a very special kind of intimacy," adding, "Both achievements are accomplished with specific audiences, the audiences specific to the jokes that generate them".

For older subjects, the World Health Organization Quality of Life Group WHOQOL Groupp) derived the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument-Older Adults Module (WHOQOL-OLD) from WHOQOL-BREF by adding specific items important to the seniors such as intimacy, autonomy and death.