One of the most readily observed cultural differences is the degree of physical intimacy allowed or expected in a business meeting.

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How complicated the pregnancy was, and whether the mother has had children before, may factor into how she feels about physical intimacy after the birth, Ratan said.

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Their new physical intimacy had shaved away the Sus.

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So those big dance numbers, that kind of physical intimacy between Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, represented that kind of sexual ardor that movies just couldn't express in the ways that are much more open to us in the last 30 or 40 years.

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We wanted it not to be physical, but about human intimacy.

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That sort of intimacy, that sort of physical closeness, the fact that they were dancing when we were playing, I just thought was so beautiful.

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Without the ability to have a daily close physical presence with each other, they are using technology to create a virtual intimacy.

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