But Ayckbourn's sad, funny world is peopled by the disappointed, short-changed, the misjudged, the despairingly knowing - and the banalities of hesitant social prattle do give way to truly intimate exchanges.

We're not able to engage in truly intimate relationships where the guard comes down.

Welsby had a truly intimate knowledge of Moreton Bay and its environs.

The tour opens a completely different prospective, it connects you with the City on a deep, truly intimate level.

Finally, the tan went on, a truly intimate process accomplished with a product called St. Tropez, which goes on like mud, which is handy, because Barbara can see what she's putting where.

In Niger, a landlocked country of 10 million people without Don Imus, Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Arbitron ratings or democracy, radio is a truly intimate medium.

But he was no Vuillard; not for him the truly intimate interior.

By compressing Dostoyevsky's life into a fast-paced 400-odd pages, it fails to give us a truly intimate sense of the many social, political and literary worlds he traversed.

His voice was as cool as if Janella wasn't giving him a truly intimate massage there on the couch.

Once in a while he would allow a person or two into his compositions, but he was no Vuillard: not for him the truly intimate interior.