The kindly friend who helps a colleague move house, or the man who cuts former acquaintances dead for daring to contradict him?
Under the Second Empire, many of Sainte-Beuve's earlier acquaintances, now dead or in retirement, were replaced by other writers: Gustave Flaubert, Ernest Renan, the Goncourt brothers, Prosper Mérimée, Ivan Turgenev, Matthew Arnold, and a large number of scholars, historians, and academicians.
"One of the nicest fuckin cunts ye could hope tae meet," maunders one character as he drunkenly recalls a dead acquaintance.
In one, a woman possessed by the vengeful spirit of a dead acquaintance tried to kill her husband with a butcher knife.
Chafee may not be the most recognizable or dynamic political figure in the state, but he can hardly leave the house without seeing someone he knows; when the nightclub fire claimed almost 100 lives in West Warwick last month, the senator immediately recognized a neighbor and a few acquaintances among the dead and injured.
But neighbors and the camp's proprietor identified the trailer's owner as Gary Heiland, a pipefitter and gun enthusiast, and said that he, a girlfriend and a male acquaintance had been found dead at the end of a siege that involved scores of officers, including sharpshooters who had fired no shots and hostage negotiators who had no opportunity to speak to the suspect.
They were nearly dead". An acquaintance of Gardner's since she worked as a waitress years ago, Starr said she called him several times.
In the episode, Max Fenig an old acquaintance of Mulder is found dead following an airplane crash, which Mulder believes to have been caused by a UFO attempting to abduct Fenig.
Its basic premise is so familiar (one character is a ghost, seeking to resolve lingering problems so she can move on to the next realm) that one accepts its story line (four acquaintances meet in the dead woman's house, drink tea together and form a bond) even though it doesn't quite ring true.
He organized hospital visits and prayers for the dead, advised acquaintances on how to buy Israel bonds, served meals on wheels, persuaded the condominium association to let him build a hut in his yard each autumn to welcome scores of people for the Jewish harvest festival Sukkot.
