Propinquities

Russ wants to believe they are still assembled in some recognizable manner, the kindred unit at the radio, old lines and ties and propinquities. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

That was how women with lovers lived in the wicked old societies, in apartments with all the rooms on one floor, and all the indecent propinquities that their novels described. ❋ Unknown (1920)

The whole incident had somehow seemed, in spite of its vulgar setting and its inevitable prosaic propinquities, to be enacting itself in some unmapped region outside the pale of the usual. ❋ Unknown (1912)

To her, in these days of imminent dismay, my thoughts flew out as to a fair protecting saint; until the inspiration of her visionary presence wrought in my fancy with such a dramaturgic power, that I seemed to walk daily with her, and to know all those delicate and sweet propinquities by which liking passes into affection and affection is glorified into love. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Why, if it be propinquity that does it, what chance had any man on earth against this man, enjoying the privilege of propinquity of propinquities, and adding thereto the weapons of every courtesy, every little pleasure a man may show a maid? ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

Woody: "The propinquity of these – pardon my [sterile] approach on the topic – two given objects is [inversely proportional] to.. Bob: "Why don't you just say "approximity" or "distance" or something?" Woody: "W-what? I don't.." Bob: "Yes, you do. Don't play stupid." Gary: "Yeah, man. Don't use words that are understood only by [3500] Americans – that's what Yahoo! News does." ❋ Burt Milhorse Eriksson (2021)

The [propinquity] of Michael and Ian led to a romantic relationship, filled with [stargazing] and late night [spooning]. ❋ Mr. Ahmayzing (2008)

the man at a of . Propinquity is a word many people use including [the Queen] of [France]. You use it [everyday]. [Everyday]. ❋ Anusha Singe (2017)