It is certainly the most intimate description of an Afghan household ever produced by a Western journalist.

Romantic suspense novels tend to have more "clean" language, without the "emotional, intimate" descriptions often used in more traditional romances.

The second, more prolific speaker is the artist, who offers clear, unpredictable and intimate descriptions: "The bomb was no mind and all body; it sent a fire / of static down the spine."

Her latest texts range from unnervingly intimate descriptions of a preadolescent girl's body ("Down the spine your ribs spring softly.

The drama's third day, and final act, would play out as much in the war councils as on the grim battlefield, and Sears recounts it all with intimate description and considerable authority.

Personal diaries often contain intimate descriptions of houses and their contents.

In addition to Winter's paintings there is a large manuscript collection of Winter's papers that has important historic value due to its intimate description of the Wabash Indians.

"The intimate description of male and female private parts would not be common in a journal of that time, especially from a religious man," Mr. Spence said.

The same crystalline sensibility infuses more intimate descriptions.

Hartcher provides a fairly intimate description of how the Ministry of Finance designed a macroeconomic machine that first inflated and then punctured Japan's economic bubble.