Sentence examples for a glancing acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Nobody who has even a glancing acquaintance with reality would act this way.

She claims but a glancing acquaintance with fashion, saying, "I've only been to two shows in my life".

Anyone with more than a glancing acquaintance with the Guardian knows exactly where to find them and knows that serious issues are taken seriously.

As a result, any and all criticisms of the banking sector are likely to get a nod of approval, even if they have a glancing acquaintance with the truth.

She said that courts are sometimes sympathetic to her arguments about the relative safety of pot, but most judges and prosecutors seem to have only a glancing acquaintance with the case law since the passage of Proposition 215.

Dr. Greene takes obvious delight in trying to mediate at least a glancing acquaintance with ideas that would give most of us nightmares if we were to encounter them alone in a dark alley of the consciousness.

If the place is Provence, France, and you are interested in old things, especially textiles and folk costumes, you may have had a glancing acquaintance with the antiquarian Michel Biehn, an inescapable presence in the region from the late 1970s until last year.

His remark about the bitterness of displaced workers supposedly made him an élitist; his glancing acquaintance with a sixty-something ex-Weatherman supposedly made him a friend of terrorists.