Sentence examples for initial acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Any initial acquaintance with this splendid forest tree evokes a wow.

It is virtually a truism among foreigners who have lived here for some time that an initial acquaintance with China - its lavish banquets, elaborate courtesies, physical beauty and lingering sense of mystery - can cause normally hard-headed people to suspend or relax their judgment.

Otherwise, I was totally unprepared for Princeton, in competition with folks who knew vastly more than I. My initial acquaintance with Princeton was "shock and awe". When I approached him for advice, the chair of the department, Robert Dicke, informed me that "better men than I" had flunked out of Princeton.

Having a friend or acquaintance make the initial contact with another party on my behalf really made things easier and often meant that I could chat to more senior people on an informal basis than would have been possible otherwise.

"Have you ever heard of a book called 'Of Mice and Men'?" Something that our acquaintance with the difficult initials had said kept coming back to me as we went through the list.

Her initial meeting with Lady Brittan, initially said to be through a "mutual acquaintance", had been changed to a "third party" by the time the last version was produced.

G. asked to be referred to only by his first initial because one of his "crazy rich" acquaintances, a luxury car dealer, was abducted a month ago and held for ransom.

In an initial statement explaining the meeting, Trump Jr. described Goldstone as "an acquaintance I knew from the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant," which the elder Trump then owned.

Another acquaintance of the President described how the power he exuded on initial greeting faded after a long dinner, in which Mr. Clinton held forth at length, but never really asked his dinner partner's opinions.

The initials L.V., in the lower right-hand corner, stood for Louis Valtat, an acquaintance of Henri Matisse.

From an initial feeling of loneliness and discomfort, the group becomes space for meeting, sharing, understanding, acquaintance, and friendship: "I realized I needed to talk, to share with others, to listen to their stories".