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Much has been made of the 'excessive' violence and sex this movie has, but that very excess is part of the point- that pointless excess has led the youth of America down a path where death barely registers, and intimacy doesn't at all.
Lori and Justin's relationship is based almost entirely on sex, so after their frequent coital encounters, Lori finds herself knocking on Michael's door in search of emotional intimacy.
I know there are ways to show sex scenes in an artistic way, it was great to show normal looking people in their intimacy, but this was just horrible.
What does it mean to trust, surrender, take and give sexual intimacy, and love when you are explicitly denying your identity and suspect what even your love for your spouse?
There is an intimacy about the geography of Northern Ireland, Gaza, and the West Bank that makes the violence seem all the more inexplicable and obscene.
Now that Trump has called Mexican immigrants rapists and has called for a wall on the border (along with a tariff on Mexican exports to pay for it), trade intimacy with the US is losing – how can one put it politely?
“It's a desire for intimacy, to go back to values,” she told the International Herald Tribune .
And now he had been consecrated as an official Jew, seeming to have forgotten the chilling maxim from Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”): “Seek not undue intimacy with the ruling power.”
It was legal, if frowned upon, for gay men to engage in all other forms of sexual intimacy.
A sense of alienation towards the West is spreading, and Turkey’s diplomatic relations with Russia have reached a hitherto unknown intimacy.
But Snowden’s revelations that the London summit’s British hosts allegedly monitored the participants’ communications make it difficult to imagine that the genuine intimacy of earlier summits can ever be recreated.
In fact, while regular sex is vital to promote intimacy and foster happiness through shared affection, more is not always better.
At home, in the context of marital intimacy, Victoria’s Secret, elegant fashion, and skin care lotions abounded.
Both wanted and unwanted intimacy occurs during a pandemic.
Far from strengthening the family, Romania’s draconian “pro-life” policies poisoned heterosexual intimacy, strained marriages, and weakened social trust.
But the Romanian case shows that a more likely scenario is a rapid increase in maternal mortality, an explosion of unwanted children and orphans, and a “sex recession,” as wives choose to avoid intimacy with their husbands altogether.
He was unpleasantly deferential, as if fearful of intimacy with persons whom he did not respect.
He saw that something unusual was taking place within her: her eyes glittered with an expression of strained attention when her look rested on him, and in her speech and motions there was that nervous quickness and grace which, during the first period of their intimacy, had so captivated him, but which now troubled and alarmed him.
CHAPTER IIIDURING HIS STAY IN Moscow Levin had renewed his intimacy with his fellow-student of university days, now Professor Katavasov, whom he had not seen since his marriage.
There was a constant intimacy, as he everywhere replaced the elder brother, sharing Jeanlin's bed over against the big sister's.
But as the intimacy of their life became deeper, the greater became the gulf that separated her from him.
Charles had not appeared particularly anxious to see him again, and Leon did not know what to do between his fear of being indiscreet and the desire for an intimacy that seemed almost impossible.
No one now came to see them, for Justin had run away to Rouen, where he was a grocer's assistant, and the druggist's children saw less and less of the child, Monsieur Homais not caring, seeing the difference of their social position, to continue the intimacy.
Often his mistress's sincere admiration, and her transports of passion made him forget the fatuous theory that had kept him so restrained and almost ridiculous in the first moments of their intimacy.
But Madame de Renal thrust him from her, and continued quite firmly:'My respectable friend M. Chelan made me realise that, in marrying M. de Renal, I had pledged all my affections to him, even those of which I was still ignorant, which I had never felt before a certain fatal intimacy ...Since the great sacrifice of those letters, which were so precious to me, my life has flowed on, if not happily, at any rate quietly enough.
Unconsciously, Madame de Renal and Julien had departed from their solemn tone; they had returned to that of a tender intimacy.
This kind of cruel intimacy lasted for a whole week.
One could admit him to a sort of intimacy: with that Cross and what is almost a layman's coat, one is exposed to cruel questions, and how is one to answer them?'
And to think that I longed with such passion for this perfect intimacy which today leaves me so unmoved!
While Julien's spirit was almost always completely lost in the world of ideas, Mathilde, occupied with realities, as becomes an aristocratic heart, had contrived to increase the intimacy of the direct correspondence between Madame de Fervaques and M. de Frilair to such a point that already the mighty word Bishopric had been uttered.
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