Sentence examples for close acquaintance with from inspiring English sources

The glaziers, however, were probably English with a close acquaintance with French models.

His coverage of the mob was helped by his close acquaintance with mobsters, people he met while hanging around N.Y.C. courtrooms.

Nick Townsend tells the story with panache, helped by a close acquaintance with the Irish mastermind of the scheme, Barney Curley, a name which bookmakers have had reason to curse on several occasions.

Here again was a parade of lovable prostitutes and mixed nuts, including an old man who exercised by singing opera in the lobby and an old woman who had a close acquaintance with ghosts.

But not even close acquaintance with her subject and unrestricted access to his archive and friends will have made it any easier to get around the main obstacle: the man himself.

But two decades overseeing the Roman empire brought him his share of conflict and suffering, and there are passages in his Meditations, newly translated for the first time in a generation, that suggest a close acquaintance with the battlefield: "Have you ever seen a severed hand or foot, or a decapitated head, just lying somewhere far away from the body it belonged to?

Usually these people are close acquaintances, with family members mentioned in about 20 percent of dream reports.

If you become close acquaintances with the author, you may possibly get personalized editing on your work too.[1].

"This poetry is more universal than ours," wrote Hughes and Weissbort, more "insistent", and closer acquaintance with it would only "stimulate poetry-making in this country".

VS Naipaul doesn't get any nicer on closer acquaintance with Patrick French's biography - nor does the Congo, as experienced by Tim Butcher in Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, get any more complicatedly heart-breaking.

It was already to some degree familiar to them from the work of the western Greeks in Italy and Sicily, and the Romans formed a closer acquaintance with it in the court of Alexandria and from the profits of their diplomacy and warfare.