The small intimacy hadn't gone unnoticed.

The film captures none of the day-to-day friction, none of the rituals, none of the small intimacies that would shape a real mother-child relationship.

You are to remain, they say, a stranger; they will give you attendance, but they refuse from the first the idea of the smallest intimacy.

So even that small intimacy with her was a deceit.

A hundred tiny things she'd seen at River Run, myriad small intimacies between her aunt and the butler, suddenly took on new significance.

But mostly he is still becoming adjusted to his new life, and sampling small daily intimacies.

Ethan hopes that talking about Ruth and Ned's kiss might somehow lead to some small intimacy between him and Mattie.

A man like Guido would have no problem with such a small intimacy.

No one else saw this small intimacy which passed between the two; or if they did, accepted it as a commonplace unworthy of comment.