Sentence examples for tender intimacy from inspiring English sources

But there are moments too of such tender intimacy that you feel you are intruding.

Marriage itself combines an awesome solemnity – an improbable vastness of commitment – with a playful, tender, intimacy, the small sweetness of the everyday.

The scene is filmed in black and white but, softly lighted, it has the tender intimacy of Rice's late painting, with its luminous, soaked-in warmth, like a banked fire.

With painful and often tender intimacy it tracks the arc of their marriage, from the first meeting of the two poets until one written on the 10th anniversary of her death.

Ray is something like the Ibsen of the cinema — his intricate, socially detailed realism rises off the ground with a bold symbolic resonance as well as a rhapsodic, tender intimacy.

In his choreography Mr. Caines is inspired by music — in this case a selection of Mozart— though the busy layering of movement and excessive, often breathless bodies onstage did little to enhance its tender intimacy.

Full of songs that explore tender intimacies with distorted vocals, it set their standards high.

That sort of mindful acceptance is vital to a tender, loving intimacy.

For his devoted readers, this tender proximity — this intimacy — may be the most affecting part of "My Brother's Book".

Hujar, who died of AIDS in 1987, his work unknown except to small following, brought to all of this a tender gravity and intimacy, a freshly conceived politics of beauty.

Holden attended a backwoods rave, experienced tender moments of intimacy, and had an intense, drug-fueled trip down memory lane with a squirrelly friend who was present on the night that local girl died.