Sentence examples for familiar acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Robert A. M. Stern, the architect and historian, called the news "a shocker," saying he felt as if he were losing a familiar acquaintance.

This article considers the difficulty or impossibility of defining poetry; man's nevertheless familiar acquaintance with it; the differences between poetry and prose; the idea of form in poetry; poetry as a mode of thought; and what little may be said in prose of the spirit of poetry.

His image on television, his high-pitched voice on the radio, his round shoulders and gangly arms and baggy pants, and especially his streetwise gusts of candor — saying what people said over the dinner table in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn — gave New Yorkers the illusion that he was a rumpled, familiar acquaintance.

The year after her father's death, Anne Marbury, aged 21, married William Hutchinson, a familiar acquaintance from Alford, who was a fabric merchant then working in London.

(For example, introverted visitors may enjoy a laid-back evening at a familiar acquaintance's home, but would rather avoid small talk with everyone seated in their row after announcements and before the next song in a church service).

Because the contrast map controlled for both: 1) viewing pictures of an equally attractive and familiar acquaintance, and 2) distraction, the observed activations were likely specific to feelings evoked by the pictures of a romantic partner.

When I began work again for its new edition, it was like picking up with familiar acquaintances; older and apparently wiser, but beneath the surface still just the same.

And the works become such familiar acquaintances that the teenagers who hang out in Palmer Square in Princeton drape scarves and guitars over the bronze shoulders of a student reading a book and munching a sandwich.

Even vaguely familiar acquaintances will kiss each other on each cheek, but a hand shake will suffice.

Sound like a familiar fictional acquaintance?

"Of all the offspring of time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome," Mackay wrote, adding that "a misdirected zeal in matters of religion" befogs the truth most grievously.