If Mary Sheppard hadn't gone away, they likely would have become intimate.
How is it that after having been friends for 20 or 30 years (and in some cases much longer), we are only now becoming intimate?
"A short lesson on governmental politics is in order," he said, aware that his voice had softened and become more intimate.
I connected them: they agreed well together, and shortly became more intimate with each other than with me.
Some of them had become pretty intimate; it embarrassed him to remember, now.
I do not anticipate that you will have difficulty in becoming intimate with him.
Without becoming intimate with any one person, you come to know them collectively.
The next room followed the same pattern, each space becoming more intimate and private as the enfilade progressed.
Fought like demons to keep the moment from becoming too intimate, as if intimacy was the most terrifying thing in the world.
