Cut off from intimacy, but craving it, too, he turns to boxing at a neighborhood gym.

This means that she sometimes appears as a person who backs off from intimacy; you never know what Jenny is feeling.

There was some memory, deeply buried but powerful, that made her shrink from intimacy or physical contact.

At such times he withdraws from relationships or intimacy and remains stuck in his cave.

People with IBD may need to take a step back from intimacy once in a while.

In this chapter the authors set out five benefits that women derive from intimacy with their husbands.

Is a married man to be debarred from all friendship and intimacy with another woman?

"All right," he explained "then here is your test: you must practice total abstinence from marital intimacy for three weeks."

Afterwards they stood up slowly, not wanting to part from such intimacy, but beginning to feel chilly now the warmth of the story was over.