Sentence examples for Superficial acquaintance from inspiring English sources
The phrase "Superficial acquaintance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a relationship or knowledge of someone that is not deep or meaningful, often referring to a casual or minimal level of familiarity.
Example: "Although we have a superficial acquaintance, I feel like we could become better friends if we spent more time together."
Alternatives: "Casual acquaintance" or "Surface-level relationship".
And yet nothing about the show leads to anything more than a superficial acquaintance with the cultures under observation.
By the time I was liberated from school and living, for a year, in London, being "into Asia" had become a fashionable attitude: hippie trips to India in a Volkswagen bus, a superficial acquaintance with Ravi Shankar's sitar music, the cloying smell of joss sticks in tea shops selling hash paraphernalia.
This superficial acquaintance will never provide us with knowledge of the essences of those things.
Nor was it necessary to have more than a superficial acquaintance with the works of these dialecticians in order to realize that their approach differed vastly from his.
Although less common than it once was, this type of view still has its adherents and is probably familiar to many who have only a superficial acquaintance with Parmenides.
Thus while a user has a tremendous amount of liberty to choose which forms of discourse to pay closer attention to, and tools with which to hide or prioritize the posts of certain members of her network, she cannot easily shield herself from at least a superficial acquaintance with a diversity of private and public concerns of her fellows.
He enjoyed riding and hunting, but his knowledge of literature was rather specialized (apart from the historians) and his acquaintance with philosophy superficial.
In my library, I revisit old acquaintances who will not distract me with superficial surprises.
Whilst some listed neighbours in their social networks, these contacts tended to be acquaintances rather than friends and relationships were superficial.
The murder of a hobo and a vicious sexual assault on one of Lee's high school acquaintances mark an end to the town's superficial, Rockwellian innocence.
Ms. Smit, 35, made no secret of a passing acquaintance with Mr. Bruinsma, but she had contended that her contact with the handsome criminal was "superficial".
