Sentence examples for of acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Fumerton (1995: 75) replies that while acquaintance itself is nonpropositional, that does not rule out that propositions or thoughts are objects of acquaintance or constituents of objects of acquaintance, and if one is acquainted with a relation of correspondence between a thought and a fact, that would seem to provide all the justification one could need or want.

Ultimately, they're inextricably "locked into a narrow channel of acquaintance, intense and binding".

The work allows Derrick to expand a circle of acquaintance already staggeringly large.

brand of acquaintance, they usually suspect sarcasm in the gesture as I whip out my checkbook.

I can therefore speak of it with a certain intimacy of acquaintance.

Facebook knows more than anyone without security clearances about people's friendships, their networks of acquaintance and their areas of interest.

In more than 20 years of acquaintance, I don't think I have ever seen him look more perplexed or burdened.

"It goes to show that people are willing to extend, if not friendship, some level of acquaintance and familiarity.

In this engaging biography, Holden stresses Hunt's abilities as a networker, arguing that he gathered the "widest circle of acquaintance" in nineteenth-century English letters.

With every inch and item of that apartment Ms. Redgrave seems to be on terms of intimacy that come only with decades of acquaintance.

All this reveals a degree of acquaintance with antiquity in literary and visual terms that is unexpected from an artist said to have received no formal education.