intimacy

Here, at BAM, it seems painfully true that the death of Blanche’s husband really did drive her to intimacies with strangers.

Between the actor’s silent conversations and the nuances of envy and backhanded slights White conveys through dialogue, these friends brutally play out the intimacy gap that can doom vintage friendships.

For opera on a reduced scale — small casts, small instrumental ensembles, small spaces — intimacy replaces grandeur.

"There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world," he continued, painting slavery as an Edenic paradise for those captured in it.

But the new version brings Albus and Scorpius into a deeper intimacy.