Sentence examples for closest acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Many a moviegoer may think that Hugh Grant's closest acquaintance with printed literature came when he played a bookstore owner opposite Julia Roberts in "Notting Hill," but the truth is that Mr. Grant, right, is an Oxford-educated English scholar and yesterday he was named a judge for the 2004 Whitbread Book of the Year.

"They're shooting at our regiment now," a 60-year-old friend said the other day as he recounted the various illnesses of his closest acquaintances.

But even his closest acquaintances fear Watson, sometimes for the qualities they admire, more often for his temper, his drinking and his ever present pistol.

The last, published 15 days after his own death, is a dazzling series of character portraits in the form of mock epitaphs on a group of his closest acquaintances.

As her beloved husband (Laurence Luckinbill), a Life magazine editor who has just published a successful children's book, lies dying in a hospital (the result of a botched mole removal), she discovers he is a serial adulterer whose regular partners include several of her closest acquaintances.

A new study of Facebook data shows that machines are now better at sussing out our true personalities than even our closest acquaintances. .

A new study of Facebook data shows that machines have become better at figuring out our true personalities than even our closest acquaintances.

In "Faith & Victory," a lonely guy named Sean who dislikes even his closest acquaintances becomes a volunteer at a pediatric hospital.

According to interviews with the New York Times, his closest acquaintances have all but dismissed the notion that the New Jersey governor has a chance with voters after the Bridgegate mess.

On closer acquaintance, however, I had to revise my view.

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