Sentence examples for own acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Nathan is pleased to make his own acquaintance.

Pascal's apologetics, though it has stood the test of time, is primarily addressed to individuals of his own acquaintance.

It seems as if he is talking to her in the way he might talk to a person of his own acquaintance, some sort of a lady, not as a doctor talks to a patient.

They had brought me a copy of it, together with a flyer they had put together to send to people who might be able to afford a limited edition of the book; and, since there weren't many of these in their own acquaintance, they had come to ask me for a list of possible subscribers.

It is almost impossible to nail an actor by discussion, because, Callow reminds us, of "the sheer bloody difficulty of acting", but I came away feeling that I understood many of those who populate these pages better even than my own acquaintance with them afforded.

When I surveyed my own acquaintances, here is what they admitted to, whatever the true unconscious gratification.

Among my own acquaintances, the onlies generally populated their families with more than one, expressing their dissatisfaction with the circumstances of their own adult lives.

This act was a general phenomenon throughout Nazi-occupied Europe: the Jews in hiding might be physically invisible, but the Gentiles hiding them were watched intently, not so much by the Germans as by their own acquaintances.

No wonder he is so difficult to find, for anyone with "a smattering of information" about his past could assume his personality well enough to fool his own acquaintances.

Malcolm also left out of his autobiography parts that might have been damaging once he became a spokesman for urban black America, such as the extent of his addiction to drugs, the crimes he committed against others in the black community, including his robbery of one of his own acquaintances, and the depth of his involvement in the running of prostitutes.

Some will say she brought it on herself, but in the 90s she was routinely publicly insulted; one of her own acquaintances, the MP formerly known as Fatty Soames, went on television to describe her as being "in the advanced stages of paranoia", and the prime minister never said a word in her defence.