Sentences with phrase «of intimacy between»

Sometimes, that loss of shared meaning during those periods of time in their relationship contributes to a loss of intimacy between a couple.

For example, low levels of intimacy between partners as well as perceived loneliness have been associated with negative psychological states, such as depression and depressive symptoms (Kiecolt - Glaser and Newton, 2001; Alpass and Neville, 2003; Adams et al., 2004).

In particular, the need for security that intimacy typically provides may clash with the sense of uncertainty, novelty, and separateness that fuels desire, such that high levels of intimacy between partners may stifle sexual desire.

Each drawing reads like a clue, forming a dual sense of intimacy between the artist and her deceased aunt, and the artist and the viewer.

His series of heads with unique shapes engage with wood's natural texture, knotholes, and cracks, demonstrating a sense of intimacy between the artist and wood.

She strives to build a form of intimacy between herself and the viewer.

The figurative graphite sculpture points to a kind of intimacy between two figures I can glimpse...

This experience culminates in a moment of intimacy between both entities and preludes the ecstasy found in gratification and death.

Instead, the film's most touching moments stem from unprovoked moments of intimacy between Gaga and her shockingly normal family.

In the first scene of intimacy between Adonis and Bianca, instead of just focusing on the bodies of the two (beautiful people), Maryse Alberti's camera lingers on Biana's long, extravagant braids - hair which often can inspire sideways looks from people.

He is married to Gerda Wegener (Alicia Vikander), whose bi-sexuality is barely hinted upon, as in scenes of intimacy between her and Einar (Eddie Redmayne) are passionate enough.

And of course in My Darling Clementine there's a lot of intimacy between Henry Fonda and Victor Mature.

Because traditionally, mainstream narrative films take that route in an effort to amplify the sense of intimacy between the characters going at it.

But I think if you just filmed Daniel and Lesley, you would get a feeling of intimacy between them, just because of their natural comfort with each other.

The question of your happiest memory is a good example of a way in which to create a feeling of intimacy between you and your date as well as lifting some of the pressure of a date atmosphere and enabling a softer side to come through.

We got this for our 2 month old daughter and mom says it's very comfortable, stretchable and still gives that feeling of intimacy between her and the baby.

This type of elimination communication «takes place in cultures where there is a greater degree of intimacy between parents and infants,» Rubin says.

• Encourages pre-verbal communication between caregiver and infant • Helps parents feel more confident and competent in caring for their children • Helps parents to ease their stress if they are a working parent and must be separated from their children for extended periods during the day • Provides parents with one - on - one quiet time or interactive play with their children • Creates a regular time of intimacy between parent and child.

But this corridor of intimacy between life and death had a crowd voyeuristically barnacled to it, eyes from every angle.

It is also true that the withdrawal of the child during adolescence can provide the parents with new opportunities for self - understanding and for renewal of the intimacy between them.

But that kind of intimacy between different societies of actual occasions, one of which is scaled up to the divine level, seem counter-intuitive.

But it will never be able to depict one thing — and that's the indescribable depth of intimacy between a husband and wife.

Not exact matches

«The equity of the brand is based on that intimacy between our customers and our people,» the Starbucks chairman says.

1 - Intimacy: The audio - only aspect of a podcast creates a strong relationship between listener and host.

While its emphasis on fostering «intimacy» between bosses and underlings can at times read like the world's most awkward relationship guide, that's kind of the point.

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.»

Sexuality is a dimension of personal existence in which the meaning of love is to be learned and in which love between persons reaches a depth, intimacy and creativity of expression which is incomparable with most other loves.

How can you make the most of these strengths and values in increasing the intimacy between you?

It is only because God utterly transcends history that his free decision to become a human being in time is also a decision of grace: «Far from implying a distance between the Word and the world, the Word's distinct manner of transcending the world implies a distinct manner of intimacy with the world.»

Previously unpublished quotations from letters between the two reveal how intense their spiritual and physical intimacy was, and how they discovered qualities of marriage that were not present in their parents».

It is not clear what a relationship based on absolute otherness or separation would mean especially in the relationship between God and the believer, which many describe as a relationship of love, worship and intimacy.

True intimacy comparisons would be between the same species, say, humans from different areas of the world.

If you read John Paul's encyclical Theology of the Body, you will see that the Church advocates deep and freely given intimacies between spouses.

Since all physical intimacies between the sexes have sexual union as an implicit hope, intention, or inclination, they should be reserved solely for persons who have made a covenant of engagement to marry one another.

This is especially true in marriages in which the spouses have used the children as a primary way of relating or as a means of avoiding intimacy (by always having the children between them as a buffer).

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.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

In the two texts we commented on earlier (John 5:31 - 39; 8:13 - 18), we should be struck by an expression which indicates the externalization of testimony with respect to the intimacy of the dialogue between the Father and the Son.

Brock identified agape love with the wrong direction of classical (patriarchal) theism in championing «disinterested» love, «dispassionate» love that includes no dynamic interrelationship between Lover and beloved and leaves God utterly unaffected by the creaturely response to God's love.21 Erotic love, by contrast, «connotes intimacy through the subjective engagement of the whole self in a relationship.»

The yearning for completion, for acceptance, for oneness with some «other» expressed in biblical images, Bible stories, in relational theology, and in hymns can reveal the inner connection between the experience of physical longing for union and the search for intimacy with God.

In the now famous Goodridge case, the Court leaned critically on the insistence that procreation is not a requirement of marriage, and that the laws on marriage «do not privilege procreative heterosexual intercourse between married people above every other form of adult intimacy.»

Only then can the relationship between God and God's people be of such direct intimacy as to make the pious attempt of others to serve as intermediaries seem like a meddling intrusion upon married love: «No longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother saying «Know the Lord,» for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.»

In general, a biblical perspective on the power of physical intimacy suggests that the sexual bond between two persons can be a force for good or evil because it is full of mystery, grace, and the fascination of the unknown.

I suggest that sexual intensity (such as that experienced between the lead characters of the «Fifty Shades» trilogy) is simply not the same as intimacy.

The contemporary companionship model of marriage — a relationship of genuine intimacy that is possible only between true equals — frees both partners to enjoy the co-nurturing of the new life they have created together.

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

Accordingly, he correctly points out that the language of intimacy in love as applied to God, the love between father and son, between husband and wife, are basic in Hebraic speech about the love of God for Israel (SFL 19f).

This continuity of immediacy is the license for what Cobb so nicely calls the «intimacy» between God and man, and my failure to accept that continuity accounts for the alienation I see between ourselves and Whitehead's God.

Friendship between humans, the potential fecundity in the intimacy between sexual lovers, and the warm relationship of a mother and her child are each fragments of the Divine love.

We cite this parallel to show the similar theme, but note the contrast between the two accounts — the relative tenderness and intimacy of the Moses story, the implicit quality of deep human compassion, the unspoken but acute sensitivity to human relationships.