When I told him that there must be some mistake, that I was not an art historian or an art critic, and had but the smallest acquaintance with his work, he said no, there wasn't a mistake.
He was planning a short story about a "man of letters" who is tremendously famous, "yet with whose work … not one of the persons concerned has the smallest acquaintance".
Those who knew Durst in Trinidad recall an odd little man ("a weird, weird dude," said one; "a very strange guy" and "spooky," said another) who threw his money around with a small coterie of acquaintance, and who talked big but whose stories never quite added up.
"In my small group of acquaintances, there are about twice as many males as females," he said.
His small circle of acquaintances included Hitler's interpreter Paul Schmidt, as well as a sinister-looking, monocled spy called Johann Jebsen.
Talk in a small group of acquaintances.
In that work, it emerges that one of the roles of weak ties is to connect small communities of acquaintances which are not that close to belong to the same community but, on the other hand, are somehow proficiently in contact.
This happens because you feel like he or she is trapping you into conversations you don't want to be a part of, like being left to small talk with an acquaintance, while your real friend goes to the bathroom.
Whether they speak up in a meeting or try to make small talk with an acquaintance, people with social anxiety worry that their anxiety is noticeable.
In a small community, when an acquaintance approaches you at a social gathering on the pretext of expressing condolences at a relative's passing and you've already heard that the acquaintance sells life insurance on the side, you can discern his agenda pretty quickly--and make a decision to smile and nod or turn away.
