Parini quotes Nin's initial description of Vidal ("clear and bright" and "luminous and manly") but little else, and his account of their relationship reveals limited acquaintance with what she wrote.
Because of his brief career in politics, Cleveland had only a limited acquaintance with leaders of his own party.
His limited acquaintance with business was through his father's and uncle's large holdings of property in Prague, which were expropriated when young Vaclav was 12.Anyone regarding Mr Havel as too idealistic or too Bohemian for grubby politics soon learned otherwise.
Limiting acquaintance accounts to self-knowledge of phenomenal states or, more strictly, self-knowledge of mental states individuated by phenomenology does not entirely fix their scope, as philosophers disagree as to which kinds of mental states are individuated by phenomenology.
A sample questionnaire item is "I find my circle of acquaintances too limited".
Characterized by boundless energy and strength, her paintings represent her passion for meaning and truth, feistiness and defiance of limits, intimate acquaintance with suffering, and finally poignant acknowledgment of things as they are.
Mr. Vongerichten, whose acquaintance with Shanghai is limited to a few visits, takes liberties, a little like the Romantic composers who ransacked Hungarian folk music for their own purposes.
Their acquaintance with ongoing research is further limited by the private sector's practice of not disclosing its research efforts or results so as to guard proprietary information".
With individual contributions limited to $2,300, bundlers fuel the fund-raising of presidential campaigns by collecting piles of checks from wealthy acquaintances in a practice that critics say gives them excessive influence.
Often, people worry about things they have limited control over, such as whether or not they got a new job (after an interview) or what a new acquaintance really thought of them.
Once they become more than just an acquaintance, you can open up around them and limit your coy, shy behavior when they are around.
