He'd wondered if he'd find passion and intimacy beneath the court mask of cool civility.

When Jay tries to find something better or deeper - intimacy - he loses.

Buried within this affecting novel is the troubling question of whether close friendships and close family ties can keep a person from finding romantic intimacy.

There was a moment of real and pro- found intimacy, unexpected and short-lived like a glimpse of some everlasting, of some saving truth.

If the office (or factory or restaurant) is where people find adventure, camaraderie, meaning and even intimacy, then it seems a fine place to look for the novel's next great motor.

And just like most women, men find sexual intimacy to be most satisfying in the context of a committed relationship.

Emboldened by her glass of wine, and by this new found intimacy, Erika asked, 'Mother, are you glad you stayed?'

In middle age, as the hot coals of political rebellion here petered out, he turned his attention to more personal themes, like how people find or fail to find intimacy.

Nearly everyone hopes to find companionship and sexual intimacy.

She tries unsuccessfully to find closeness and intimacy in her relationship with the artist Aldo.