Many other widows of a similar age, however, remain lonely and embittered, having lost all the shared intimacy in their lives.

How do you describe such a unique shared intimacy between two worlds?

That was who she needed to be: a woman who cared about the small moments, the shared intimacies.

The communality of the theater offered the transitory balm of shared emotional intimacy to an audience now frightened of physical intimacy.

Layers of wet clothing were peeled back to reveal couple after couple, settling in for the shared intimacy of a play about men and women.

The essential quality of those in the Clintons' inner circle was the shared intimacy of past times together.

Both had seen the frantic couplings of other warriors brought together after battle by the shared intimacy of imminent death; they had a need not to feel themselves the same.

It's not about polished singing but about shared intimacy in a cozy space.

Then reality would intrude and in some subtle way that disturbed and depressed her, she would withdraw from the shared intimacy with Natasha.

She supposed it had been his way of trying to warn her that the warm, shared intimacy that she imagined was beginning to take shape between them had its limitations.