And though he rarely allowed familiarities, and fled from any kind of sentimental gesture or utterance, he was secretly generous to friends and acquaintances down on their luck.
The show didn't bite, but she heard that an acquaintance turned down a $1,000 offer from "The Sopranos" to shoot a coffin being carried out of her house.
She has recently heard of several professional acquaintances closing down their well-established businesses.
One Saudi man objected to wearing overalls, embarrassed when acquaintances rolled down their car windows and joked that he should avoid police patrols looking for illegal immigrants.
It's the language you'll find in the tabloid press, on AM radio phone-in shows and in conversations your dad has with his acquaintances down the pub: a world of "aces" setting clubs on "red alert", "mixers" that must be got into at any cost, the England Band and bonking scandals.
Danny Glover gives his best performance ever — both ticklish and upsetting — as Harry Mention, an old acquaintance from down home who finagles his way into Gideon's family and exposes its fault lines.
Then one day I watched an acquaintance scroll down her timeline.
The pain of realising that someone that you consider a "proper friend" actually has you down as an "acquaintance", is intense.
Finally, Ms. Dopp called an acquaintance whose child had Down syndrome.
"She made only the most glancing acknowledgement of their old acquaintance and got straight down to the policy, towards which she was very receptive".
