On closer acquaintance, however, I had to revise my view.
Yet, on closer acquaintance, the other side of the Emperor emerged.
Young or old, death doesn't improve with closer acquaintance, even if the movies about it are getting better all the time.
"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".
Someone who dazzled you with seemingly flawless radiance at your first encounter may, on closer acquaintance, reveal quirks, flaws, a human side that seems less godlike and at the same time more appealing.
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.
It is part of the festival experience, it seems, to stand freezing and flummoxed on a platform at Newport, to sit on motorways clogged with football fans aiming for Cardiff, or to make a closer acquaintance with country hedgerows than you intended to.
On closer acquaintance they turn out to be more like bureaucrats.
Friends and former colleagues described Ms. Forrest — known as Kitty to close acquaintances — as decisive.
