Close up on the woman's face : So, i hesitate between two interpretations: To intimate is a rare verb meaning to inform someone privately.
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The atmosphere is warm and intimate. No. do but seems to be idiom that is used to emphasize, but i can not find it in any dictionary. I don't think the extent of the intimacy is explicit in the phrase.
To inform is about 20 times more common.
'intimate setting' here just means a place with an ambience that they feel most comfortable in to be open with the people they are communicating with, rather than being totally. Because of the intimate relationship between parents and children, they know their children better than anyone. is it correct and natural? Can his most intimate friends be so excessively deceived in him? You're absolutely right, or course, that it's acceptable in a letter to someone you're intimate with;
Nevertheless, a learner of english should be aware that it's not a standard way of. Indeed, the phrase intimate dinner is. Eventually, the policeman's phone beeps and he stands up to. Intimate (verb = inform) is, after all, spelled like intimate (adjective = private, secret).
2) an intimate revelation was looming, still hesitant /.
I think intimate dinner is a bit of a misuse here, when the dinner will include the entire board of one organization and the leaders of several others. This is different from cypherpunk's correct explanation of to get someone off. 1) an intimate revelation was looming, trembling, on the horizon (metaphorical sense). It means they became sexually intimate.
