Sentence examples for actual acquaintance from inspiring English sources

They were based on an actual acquaintance with the city, and drawn by pilgrims or for them.

This is so at least if one grants that it is a priori that water is the watery stuff of our actual acquaintance, once it is presupposed that there is any watery stuff of our actual acquaintance.

She had discovered for herself that there is no substitute for experience, that there is an unbridgeable gulf between what Bertrand Russell called "knowledge by description" and actual "knowledge by acquaintance," and no way of going from one to the other.

Are we able to cast a wider and wider net of virtual social acquaintances that actual mean something?

Many states have their own conspiracy laws, and even today, friends and acquaintances of actual traffickers can get sentenced to life in prison because of some vague connection to the legit players running the drug trade.

It is cheaply glorious to be able to discover almost any fact about the world on the machine I am using to write this review: I experience that liberty as the reward it is, and also as a punishment; as both a gift of the digital world and a judgment on my scant acquaintance with the actual world.

We may widen our network to two, three, or four hundred people that we see as friends, not just acquaintances, but keeping up an actual friendship requires resources.

An acquaintance of Lumpe's suggested that the actual pianist must have been David Owen Norris, a noted Elgar interpreter; virtually no other artist played it in public.

This immediate acquaintance with the canvas is analogous to the actual having of the emotion (religious or otherwise).

This used to refer to actual educated people; now, however, it seems to include anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with the English language, or any other academic subject, like the Bill of Rights.

These are not tabloid sidebars but actual matrimonial paybacks that I've witnessed among the comparatively reserved and well-educated burghers of my acquaintance over the years.