Sentence examples for passing relationship from inspiring English sources

Grendel here bears a passing relationship to the monster in the "Alien" movies: he has the same elongated snout, the same dripping, needlelike teeth.

What is more shocking than Beck's popularity is the stark indifference of Beck's handler's to his lack of proficiency as a news caster or that he has a passing relationship with the truth.

As ever, Trump's comment bore only a passing relationship to the truth.

Were there any companies with whom you forged more than a passing relationship – and what did they do?

He was the son of a young black woman, Cedella Marley Booker, who had a passing relationship with the much older Norval Marley, a British Army man of mixed race who was considered a white Jamaican.

Lilly had more than a passing relationship with American intelligence agencies (Burnett turned up a folder labeled "Indoctrination, Forced" in the Lilly archive and through a Freedom of Information query found that J. Edgar Hoover personally attended to Lilly's F.B.I. file).

My life at that time was full of passing relationships: people I knew for days, or even hours, and who posed for Polaroid-like snapshots in my memory which outlast many of the long-exposure images I've collected since.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — F.B.I. agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombing have repeatedly questioned Musa Khadzhimuratov, a Chechen refugee and former separatist fighter who says he had a passing social relationship with one of the two bombing suspects.

It hit a lot of people hard, people who had worked with him extensively, people who had passing professional relationships with him like myself, people who knew him only in the way that a celebrity is known by the general public.

Another three months passed in relationship purgatory where hours with him were heaven and days without him were pure hell.

And as time passes, relationships and events are both implicit and explicit in the work.