It was an intimate, hence cruel, reminder of all that they had once meant to one another.

He stamped on a sentimental impulse to pick up the brush and cradle this intimate reminder of Abigail in his hands; he had no time for sentiment right now.

He grinned at Lessa in an intimate reminder of her promise.

'I'm hungry,' he announced, his smile making his words an intimate reminder.

There are oddly intimate reminders of a home where little children played and adults partied hard, and where a couple once fought violently on New Year's Eve.

For the younger woman, such a combination is merely a style, not a blanket symbol of the wrongs of patriarchy, nor an intimate reminder that her mother's life was less than it could have been.

It might be well to write some message on the card recalling the events of the preceding evening--nothing intimate, but simply a reminder of your first meeting and a suggestion that you might possibly desire to continue the acquaintanceship.

As I wait, my eyes come to rest on the collection of family snapshots that sits atop a nearby desk, fragments from her other life as a wife and mother; intimate reminders of another time, not that long ago, but now utterly, irretrievably gone.