Sentence examples for of intimate knowledge from inspiring English sources

That's not a criticism: the book's strength comes from a feeling of intimate knowledge and immediacy.

That kind of intimate knowledge of a market is what HarperCollins is banking on.

The reader here learns how Tony Last's tenderness for this place is born of intimate knowledge.

There's a feeling of intimate knowledge, of high stakes and personal anger and sorrow.

Finding bears in this landscape is a matter of intimate knowledge, and imagination.

"None of the other candidates can rival me in terms of intimate knowledge of the operation, the psychology and the players of Albany," he said in an interview.

But the e-mail messages from Mr. Rocha appear to show a high level of concern based on intimate knowledge of the shuttle's many systems and structures.

I know that I am now, first through small doses and increasingly in larger ones, losing control, not only of where and how my teenage children go places, but also of the intimate knowledge of how they spend their days.

The cardinal fascinates Jep, and is possessed of an intimate knowledge of Rome's occult secrets, sacred and profane.

Because of his intimate knowledge of South African conditions, Currie was entrusted by the British government with boundary negotiations in the Kimberley diamond fields and was also concerned with the restoration of the Transvaal to the Boers.

Thurnwald's views on social anthropology grew out of his intimate knowledge of various societies gained during field expeditions to the Solomon Islands and Micronesia (1906 09 and 1932), New Guinea (1912 15), and East Africa (1930).