He was warmly attached to family and friends, and yearned continually after sympathy, yet he established real intimacy with only a few.

He quickly establishes intimacy by allowing himself to lower his guard.

Women perhaps have other conversational devices for establishing and maintaining intimacy.

Researchers have shown that in general fetishists have poorly developed social skills, are quite isolated in their lives and have a diminished capacity for establishing intimacy.

She used his first name now, establishing intimacy.

Often, with a word, a joke or a line of poetry, he established immediate intimacy.

Men tend to use conversation to establish status and grab center stage, women to establish intimacy and connection.

In the course of a day, in meeting after meeting, she established instant intimacy, built quick alliances and then moved on - unfettered by memory.

One is never hostile to a stranger, but one would not eat in his presence, unless one is planning to establish sexual intimacy.

Prosecutors and police officers said predators "groom" a child, ferreting information to establish intimacy.