(You will know the feeling of one close acquaintance to whom she said, "I have no friends, and you're one of them").
The statue of her carved by Antonio Canova, in which she insisted on being depicted naked as a goddess of love, caused the cardinal so much embarrassment that he not only refused to allow it to be displayed in public, but would only show it to close acquaintances by torchlight.
In later life, to a few close acquaintances, Dirac attributed his glum taciturnity to this chilly paternal regime.
Friends and former colleagues described Ms. Forrest — known as Kitty to close acquaintances — as decisive.
"I continue to return to them, like to a group of close acquaintances and friends," he told me.
By selling most of his equity, close acquaintances said, it was easier to split marital assets in the divorce.
Infertile patients may sometimes recruit relatives, close friends, or acquaintances to donate eggs.
When you're forming short-term goals to reach your dream, or even thinking about long term goals to do so, it can really help to get advice from people in the field, whether they are close friends or acquaintances, to see how they did it.
Studies of the psychology of gifted children frequently refer to their relatively immature affective development in terms of their intellectual capacities and the relational difficulties they experience with regard to their peers, teachers, close acquaintances and sometimes their parents.
"Our close acquaintance goes back to the fall of 1929 as freshmen in Encina," writes Ray L. Wilbur, Jr. "I will always remember Easter vacation our freshman year spent in his home in Santa Monica with his wonderful mother and his two delightful sisters, Kathryn and Marie.
