The small groups movement, from which President Bush emerges, emphasizes intimate companionship and encouragement.

They've given back to New Yorkers a sense of intimate companionship with the Hudson River that had been lost, it sometimes seems, ever since the mid-19th century.

It was hard to believe that the captain had declined the offer of intimate companionship, for he had appeared eager at the prospect.

Introductions need not imply long and intimate companionship.

And the sisters' intimate companionship develops into an incestuous sexual attachment.

Thinking back, she tried to remember the last time she had enjoyed the pleasures of intimate companionship.

They see the primary purposes of this union as intimate companionship, rearing children and mutual support for both husband and wife to fulfill their life callings.

By that she did not mean intimate companionship: "That won't happen again in my life," she said.

Yet he really wanted her - wanted the intimate companionship, the love, the friendship.

But, ultimately, for many, these activities do not compensate for intimate male companionship in our lives.