Sentence examples for true intimates from inspiring English sources

You see them often, but not so much that you consider them to be true intimates.

Many maintained that their circle of true intimates, their very close friends and family, had not become bigger.

Nagging depression drives her to seek the services and the arms of a psychiatrist, Morel, the evangelical secularist.Mr Rush is a master at parsing the seemingly casual exchange between true intimates.

He pines for a married colleague, and though he has always been close to Gretchen, they've begun to speak to each other not as true intimates but as they imagine close siblings do.

Throughout the trial and subsequent appeals, he contended that there was no connection, no quid pro quo, between the donations and the contracts — that, in fact, the contractors (also convicted) were acting out of friendship rather than corrupt intent, as longstanding business associates who had become true intimates.

Later, slowly, they'd become true intimates — not when she'd undressed for him, for the first time, in a hotel room, or when they'd kissed achingly in her driveway, but when, on the telephone this month, she'd confessed that she was puzzling over the problem of her daughter's pregnancy.

She became close to one of her sisters, but the sister died, and in the last years of her life she had no true intimate companions.

In a perverted way, she or sometimes he is the true spouse, the true intimate, sub to the star's dom, privy to their dreams.

If you're reading daily updates from hundreds of people about whom they're dating and whether they're happy, it might, some critics worry, spread your emotional energy too thin, leaving less for true intimate relationships.

As Goleman states, empathy is the foundation of emotional intelligence and true intimate connection.

The idea behind all these shoulds is to help you appear independent, and anything but vulnerable or...gasp...in search of true, intimate human connection.