Be comfortable
Close and be comfortable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Close" instead a verb phrase "Be comfortable".
Close
Close verb - To position (something) so as to prevent passage through an opening.
Be comfortable and close are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Be comfortable" instead a verb "Close".
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Because of this, it almost never appears as a plot point since it's a little too close for some folks to be comfortable, but not close enough that the plot demands the relationship break up.
Source: Surprise Incest -
In an issue of the older Batman comics, Robin's tackling of a bad guy from behind places his face too close to said bad guy's posterior to be comfortable.
Source: Ass Shove - Mortasheen, meanwhile, is non-racist- racism being a hilariously inappropriate concept in a city where people change bodies like others change clothes- but they do hate Engineers, whose use of computers and cybernetics makes them seem too close to Wreathe for most people to be comfortable with them.
Source: Tabletop Game / Mortasheen
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