Only an intimate familiarity with the work allows a theatergoer to follow what's going on.

"Perhaps it is a result of his intimate familiarity with the plant kingdom," he said.

Simon chose to set the show in Baltimore because of his intimate familiarity with the city.

You need tinkerers at every level of an organization who have intimate familiarity with what's going on.

It also gave him an intimate familiarity with the instruments used to track missiles in flight.

Such intimate familiarity was no part of his normal intercourse with the parish.

You know the rules: no intimate familiarity with other slave girls!

Both sets of heroes can be prized for their intimate familiarity with the earth.

But another reason is Americans' intimate familiarity with divorce and its consequences.

A feeling of intimate familiarity with myself that I did not like at all.