Sentence examples for personal acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Personal acquaintance with an infected person might represent familiarity, but we could not examine 'familiarity' directly.

Refugees and exiles henceforth figured heavily in her personal acquaintance and in her literary imagination.

And so it is with nearly everyone Schlesinger meets: the insights won by personal acquaintance accord with the conventional judgment.

But why — other than personal acquaintance — would a famous writer with many other possibilities give you her work?

The Woman's Building, designed by Sophia Hayden, featured exhibits from 47 nations, many of them obtained through Palmer's personal acquaintance with political leaders and royalty.

It has been said there is a sequence of personal acquaintance only 5 links long that connects every American to the President.

Association members solicited from personal acquaintances and businesses.

She made a second visit to Russia in 1917 and only through personal acquaintances there escaped being caught up in the turmoil of the Revolution.

In consequence, he ceased to show in public and gave up oils in favour of watercolours, which he could more easily dispose of to personal acquaintances.

The closest Irving ever came to naming Ichabod B. Crane as his inspiration was when he confided that Ichabod was a composite drawn from several personal acquaintances.

Real journalism, as Winner as has just so clearly demonstrated, has to be laced through with references to old-time Hollywood stars who used to be personal acquaintances.