Sentence examples similar to an improved acquaintance from inspiring English sources

But even in a position of dependence Clarissa is too truthful, or proud, to cater to Lovelace's ego or to cease regretting that she left home with him: he is not, she tells him, "a man . . . who improved upon acquaintance".

She said that Robert Benchley "improved upon acquaintance" but that "about Dorothy Parker the same cannot be said".

I would like to say ahead of time that I have lived with the first part for a while and have come to think of it as a solid and upstanding reading which improves on acquaintance.

And it doesn't improve on acquaintance.

A phrase I found kept occurring to me in connection with Michael Palin is the French expression: "Il gagne d'être connu," or, roughly translated, he improves with acquaintance.

This paper proposes to use the acquaintance and improved targeted immunization strategies from complex systems to resolve energy consumption issues and uses traffic as measure standard to obtain a stable threshold.

A suspect, an acquaintance of the victim, was arrested Thursday.

That piece, alas, doesn't improve on further acquaintance.

Young or old, death doesn't improve with closer acquaintance, even if the movies about it are getting better all the time.

This was a courtesy to an acquaintance.

"I AM a Florentine," declares an acquaintance of your correspondent.