By the end of its 2 hours and 50 minutes running time, the viewer felt as if he'd intimately come to know Gates and Agee the way readers once believed they personally knew Tolstoy's characters.
Mr. Obama said his health plan would be "intimately woven into" his administration's economic blueprint.
Mr. Ford had a growing sense that whatever went down in Detroit, the federal government would be intimately involved.
Isolated neighborhoods, which now have little green space, would be intimately woven into the city's fabric.
Administration officials stressed that Mr. Gates and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, would be intimately involved in shaping the president's final decision.
I grew up with crosswords when it was expected that the typical solver would be intimately acquainted with the Bible and the classics and the works of Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert and Sullivan.
American military officials said, however, that they would be intimately involved, and that United States Special Forces units, which have created smaller-scale programs locally, especially in southern Afghanistan, would continue to set up and train the forces.
The closest that "A Night to Remember" comes to engineering drama is an account, shrewdly spliced into the larger narrative, of the doings of two ships that would become intimately associated with the disaster.
Mr. Fastow could play a role in that element of the case because, beginning the previous summer, he led the effort to sell Enron's assets, meaning he would be intimately familiar with the company's plans for Wessex.
Gurlitt would have intimately known their value.
