Instead, Lane suggests that we read a male author of mysteries, Georges Simenon, who he says displays an "intimate acquaintance with mortal weakness for which she could only grope".
It produces "stand-ins"—life-like images of human faces that represent the user over the Internet in, say, reading an e-mail message aloud to an acquaintance, delivering company information or making sales pitches for online retailers.
Friendster was all the rage in 2003 and my friend (read: distant acquaintance) Dave, went so far as to say, "Did you really just join?" As much as I enjoyed looking in on my heartthrob and memorizing his list of favorite movies, I didn't see what the big deal was with the site itself.
Asked about Trump's visit to Detroit, an acquaintance read aloud his response.
One post, sent on Jan . 16and addressed to an acquaintance, read: "@MelissaxWalton free this week for a quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America?" To which the friend, apparently in on the joke, replied: @LeighBryan haha!! oui oui xx — Melissa Walton (@MelissaxWalton) January 16 , 2012
Clair's recollections and experiences are his hearing Louis Kossuth speak, seeing Lord Palmerston, hearing Charles Dickens read, making the acquaintance of Thomas Carlyle, and receiving a visit from General Aguinaldo in the office of the Singapore Free Press.
In none of his writings does he mention having any prior acquaintance with Spain or ever reading a book in Spanish about the war or anything else.
As is often the case in these situations, further encounters followed, first in a novel I was reading, then from the lips of an acquaintance.
"In Cairo, [former Fifa Secretary General Michel] Zen Ruffinen introduced the reporters to an acquaintance called Amadou Diallo," read the statement.
Mr. Ricci, who is dyslexic, paid an acquaintance more than $1,000 to read textbooks onto audiotapes.
