It is filled with shame and secrecy, and by you acknowledging me with this award, it shines a light on it even more.
Except for my own footsteps against the hardwood floor and the faint hum of the air conditioner switching on, there is only silence, him acknowledging me with a curt hello and a bothered expression like I'm interrupting him rather than responding to an invitation he himself made then striding away from me, back to the painting he seemed to have been studying before I came in.
"Another glass, please!" The waiter acknowledged me with a wave.
Instead stagehands and security people acknowledged me with snarky, absurd salutations that can only be traded among people who've shared changes of seasons and cycles of life.
I knew little about him--just that he was the head of the lab down the hall, that with the copious amount of curly gray hair that stuck out from his head in all directions, he looked like the quintessential mad scientist, and that, though he'd acknowledged me with a nod whenever we'd passed in the hall, he didn't seem all that outgoing or welcoming.
My diary informs me that there were days I used to obsess about whether he would acknowledge me if he was with his friends in the pub and worry like mad if he didn't call.
And before you get too upset with me, let me go on by acknowledging the difficulty with doing this.
My friends who had my bicycle and backpack, caught up with me, acknowledging the act of aggression toward me.
Wright signed the letter, acknowledging agreement with its content.
"My granddad said to me, 'I think you've overdoon it,' " he said, acknowledging with his Yorkshire pronunciation the huge fuss about the little band.
The next day, Arthur Hugh Frazier, one of the colonel's three principal aides, sent a coldly correct reply to Quoc, also in French, that read simply: "Monsieur, Colonel House has charged me with acknowledging reception of your letter of 18 June , 1919 and to thank you for the copy that you enclosed of the Note of Claims of the annamite [sic] people on the occasion of the Allies' victory".
