The talk — about her house's décor, about her acquaintance with Delaware's governor, about the direction the nation had taken — was exquisitely boring in its remoteness from ordinary feeling.
Of course, Klee is far from alone in bearing this "cost," but his semi-abstraction did help open the door for the abstract and conceptual art movements that followed, the merits of which Heidegger remained more skeptical about, as his acquaintance with them was minimal (as Young 2001 shows).
"Martial wrote a funny poem about an acquaintance with a comb-over, Epigram 10.83.
In the Oxford American, Joshua Clark writes about his acquaintance with Campbell, giving a peek inside the contents of the suitcase and Williams's wild and tragic personal life.
Of course part of the point was Castle boasting about her acquaintance with Sontag, but this was shellacked by such a glossy coat of self-deprecation ("Sontag was the Supremo and I the obsequious gofer") that the piece became a goofy take on being a star intellectual's pet academic.
GPDs were asked about their acquaintance with the RCD and whether or not they had actually perused this or a different reporting code, how they evaluated the content and the 'look and feel' of it and if they had implemented the RCD in their practice.
We can trace the fundamental source of Russell's restrictivism about acquaintance to the claim that one is acquainted only with that for which misidentification is rationally impossible.
What about the possibility of acquaintance with ourselves?
Thought about concrete particulars is ultimately grounded in acquaintance, albeit acquaintance with sense data, while being descriptive.
Jo Berry, whose father, Tory MP Sir Anthony Berry, was killed in the bombing, will talk about her long acquaintance with Mr Magee, and her quest to understand what drove her father's killer.
This is a longish set-piece speech, poignantly reprised in voiceover at the end, about the playful acquaintance with the gulls, the "throwing a wave to the lighthouse keeper's kid" as he rounds the point, the freedom of the ocean.
