Sentence examples for better acquaintance from inspiring English sources

It's a pity Paxman's commitment to journalese forbids him better acquaintance with a writer with the range of sensibility of Burns.

But I know sometime soon I'll start craving a better acquaintance with the rest of the family: the butterscotches, the vanillas and the tapiocas.

Although analytical chemists mostly are familiar with the validation guidelines within the discipline of their responsibility, we believe that they may take advantage of a better acquaintance with recommendations among disciplines.

A better acquaintance of structural features that balance safety and efficacy of dual inhibitors would be a different approach to the process of understanding and interpreting the designing of novel anti-inflammatory agents.

A few of us may want to make better acquaintance with him and his excited teammates when they take on the Kansas City Royals in the next stage, starting on Thursday.

Mr. Carter's music, which brought him dozens of awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes, could seem harmonically brash and melodically sharp-edged on the first hearing, but it often yielded drama and lyricism on better acquaintance.

Good neighbours had become... mildly better acquaintances.

In "Al Roosten", for instance, the title character, a "round bald guy", boils with jealousy and self-loathing as he considers a richer, happier, better-looking acquaintance.

Actually, perhaps the better word is "acquaintance".

You've got to swing convincingly in jazz-influenced pieces, and lately you also need a better-than-passing acquaintance with rock and hip-hop.

Variety, in reviewing her first show, complimented "her good looks, infectious personality and better-than-speaking acquaintance with baseball". She became known as "the first lady of baseball" and accompanied Durocher and the Giants to Cuba for spring training.