With the easy familiarity of long acquaintance, Lazarus stands firmly beside the statue and gives it voice.
Friends, acquaintances, and strangers hail him with the same easy familiarity; he is Kid Rock, or Rock, or Bob, or Bobby.
Rubin pointed to several reasons for lax enforcement of election crimes: Prosecutors, he suggested, might be too busy with other cases to tackle these cases; in tight-knit small towns, he added, they may go easy on acquaintances who have committed voter fraud.
Then again, she was single at the time, so if announcing this made it easier for a casual acquaintance to make a connection, she didn't mind.
I spent Bob's birthday that year with him, too: December 31st, easy for friends and acquaintances to remember, much to his dismay.
This will make it easier and your acquaintances will more likely have friends that are like you.
He is easy and unreserved among his acquaintances, and has a most agreeable style of conversation".
Home exchanges for travelers have been around a long time, but home exchanges through Web services offer advantages, not the least of which is that it is much easier to build up an acquaintance and ask and answer questions through e-mail.
With the Internet, it's far too easy to blur the distinction between friend and acquaintance and treat people as if they are "subscribers" to our lives, and not real flesh and blood with whom we feel a bond.
Networking Call to an Acquaintance: These calls are easy to make.
