Sentences with phrase «act of intimacy»

Pornography degrades women as well as men, and portrays sex as an act of vulgarity, power, and sometimes violence rather than an act of intimacy, bonding, and communion between two loving partners.

An act of intimacy can be as simple as bringing your partner a cup of tea because you can tell they are tired

When you turn toward your spouse in those small, everyday moments, you're tapping into the act of intimacy, which in turn leads to an active sex life.

This life - sized, double - portrait «mirror - painting» depicts the artist and his life - long companion and artistic collaborator Maria Pioppi facing each other in an act of intimacy and union.

It almost feels inappropriate, an act of intimacy perverted by images of mass murder, but the result is nothing less than poetic.

A cover is an act of scholarship, an act of criticism, an act of intimacy.

For many people, a healthy relationship contains the very acts of intimacy that masturbation simulates.

Victor's random acts of intimacy threatens to get serious when Dr. Paige Marshall (Kelly Macdonald), a beautiful new doctor at St. Anthony's, suggests a radical, if not exactly legal way of reversing Ida's condition: If Victor will successfully impregnate her, she could use the fetal tissue to conduct her own stem - cell therapy.

This becomes more pronounced in Ojih Odutola's series of famous white subjects rendered in blackness and, by contrast, in the white charcoal depictions of couples engaged in ambiguous acts of intimacy or violence.

Not exact matches

Biola then issued a «statement on human sexuality» saying, «God's design for marriage and sexuality is the foundational reason for viewing acts of sexual intimacy between a man and a woman outside of marriage, and any act of sexual intimacy between two person of the same sex, as illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian.»

Taken in this context, masturbation and whether or not it is a healthy expression of sexuality for a particular individual become questions of whether or not the acts of masturbation at a particular season of life are drawing you deeper into isolation from others and from God, or into deeper connection and intimacy.

The supplicant asks God to treat those in the circle of intimacy preferentially, to act like a legislature that passes a private bill or like a president who occasionally suspends general laws to intervene in a special case.

Although they may choose such acts as means of experiencing personal intimacy, the resulting experience is not and can not be the experience of any real unity between them; it is not and can not be the experiencing of a common good attained in and through an act of bodily union.

Sex is the supreme act of physical intimacy, one blessed by the Church in the sacrament of matrimony.

Ford also relies upon the claim that Jesus acted out of an intimacy with his heavenly Father that startled contemporary Jewish piety» (LG 82).

When we are able to see the incredible intricacy of the act of sexual intimacy, we can not but stand in awe of how we are made.

In the video and Evan's view, women are unable to «give themselves sex» as a gratifying act of physical intimacy.

I believe I am like most people on this forum, it is not the actual sexual act, it is the whole lack of intimacy that goes hand in hand.

Each one of us has one main love language and a secondary love language: gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service (devotion), and physical touch (intimacy).

Infidelity breaks up many marriages, but often it isn't the act of sex that's so upsetting — it's the deception and lying, clearly problematic for the emotional intimacy you say men want.

The act of bonding between parent and baby is vital for development of the baby's self - confidence, sense of safety, and experiences of intimacy and affection.

Krych, who is also chief medical editor of Mayo Clinic Guide to Your Baby's First Year, said the mere act of caressing a baby while either breast - feeding or bottle - feeding with formula offered babies intimacy and a sense of security.

Sex is about pleasure, and the emotional and physical intimacy that women feel during the act of sex.

Brush up on other sexual acts and become comfortable and confident with other kinds of sexual intimacy.

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We all know sex is a very deep act of passion and intimacy, that is heightened by feelings of love.

In many cases, the sex act itself has almost disappeared altogether and any intimacy exists only in relation to their financial situation or the upbringing looking women of their children.

Between some pure, good dialogues and acting, there are a lot long and overglamourised shots of food / drink, landscaping and beautiful people body parts... Fairly unnecessary and actually distracting of what could be a great portrait of the troubles and the beauty of intimacy in long relationships (of love and friendship)-- even if it's between the beautiful, rich and famous.

Over the course of the three acts, the film's context evolves from social satire (set in a public space) to emotional intimacy (confined to the private space of a single room and a single bed) to domestic drama (set in the awkward private - public space of a family apartment).

He also addresses what was perhaps the major critique of much of his writing to date, in which after promising set - ups, the final acts have occasionally felt anticlimactic or unconvincing: here, he preserves the story's intimacy and tension right up to the very end, culminating in an enigmatic, surprising but very satisfying denouement.

These difficult balancing acts of formalism, realism, intimacy and mythology are accomplished thanks to Cianfrance's careful placement of the elements.

The final act lacks something of Florence's viewpoint, and is let down slightly by some questionable make - up, but Cooke's camera delicately balances the fragility of relationships with intimacy and detachment, finding deafening devastation in a silent tracking shot that pulls away from the couple, keeping each one of opposite sides of the frame.

The technique is stunningly effective and propels the action with claustrophobic intimacy, intensity, and momentum; we can not escape the action of the film, nor can the actors escape their reality — except by acting.

In the now - classic 2006 article «The Secret Source: Sexually Explicit Young Adult Literature as an Information Source» in the journal Young Adult Library Services (YALS), YA lit scholar Amy Pattee suggests that YA fiction can be a «secret source» of information about sex, including everything from the mechanics of sex acts to «a vocabulary of intimacy that [teens] can use to make sense of their own sexual and romantic feelings.»

Their frontality, the absence of perspectival depth, the sense of intimacy and intensity, pulls the viewer into an intimate bond with his or her act of looking.

The exhibition presents works that variously investigate our intimate relationships with objects; works that act as vehicles for affective engagement or transactions of desire, including objects that carry the traces of things we can't see but have to trust, intuit, or perceive in ways that are not related to vision or hearing; and works that are engaged with actions of interpersonal care, trust, intimacy, or love.

With multiple layers of paint, color and line, she creates an ambiguous space that affords the viewer an intimacy with her subject matter and both obscures and recalls the pain it evokes («Pietà») In her catalogue essay, Tina Kinsella writes, «Bracha's recent paintings beckon us to reprise the work of mourning, to return to the grounds from which the act of lamentation arrives and to reappraise the particular emotion that the laboring through grief produces... the Pietà always threatens to disclose this excess of sorrow by surfacing the penumbra of future loss that lurks in the heart of the maternal relationship between mother and child.»

Through Christopher Clary's portraiture turned striptease, the artist exposes the moments of intimacy, sadness, humor, lust, even boredom of the conscious act that homos must project for others.

Through the use of models met on cruising and dating sites, as well as strangers I approach on the street, I create images which are both confrontational and infused with intimacy; of figures at once caught in the act and looking to engage in it.

These act as source and subject of his work, which brings value to decoration, intimacy, and the interior life of the artist.

Today, however, these scenes of fisting, urine drinking, and other S&M acts are less shocking for what some may perceive as their depravity than they are for their extraordinary intimacy, and their testing of what pleasure can be.

In a statement about her work for a recent exhibtion at Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto, Luloff wrote: «By painting my close friends and the objects in my studio I have a special moment of intimacy with them... The act of drawing these items, as well as patterns inspired by time spent in India, is a meditation on passing time, on pacifying, and creating a demarcation of my daily experience in the studio.

Enriched with ritual, these acts service a political exercise of the body stimulating questions for participation, resistance, and the intimacy between both.

Now 28, the Yale MFA graduate is a rising star on the photography scene, best known for creating a series of portraits that reveal a poignant and potent sense of intimacy that occurs in the act of creating art.

It is a political act because of its intimacy; it represent the power of two people defying power with a very simple gesture.

The result, as in this example from 1990, is a delicacy and intimacy — despite its three and a half meter span — where the act of drawing by hand brings the work back to the body itself.

They point to the urgency and intimacy in the act of violence as blood and sweat merge in struggle.

«Touch to Change» deftly brings focus to the act of human contact and expressions of intimacy.

Looking at ephemerality, vulnerability and intimacy, the artists explore what it is to yearn, both physically, as an act of production, and mentally.

For these artists, the act of painting actualizes and secures the personal intimacy they seek with their subjects.