Sentence examples for sustained acquaintance from inspiring English sources
There is a certain amount of boilerplate and facile biographical inference — "Stephen (i.e. James Joyce)" — but sustained acquaintance with these pages leaves one with the happy feeling that there are no human activities more worthwhile than writing and reading novels.
But she is soon forgiven, and the litany of quirky fancies, grumbles about the disgustingness of food and the boringness of company, itemisations of dogs farting, shitting and pissing in the house, loving accounts of injuries and fatalities sustained by friends and acquaintances, and cockeyed but well‑meant advice continues.
To judge from reviews, the orchestra can make a good first impression, which it may not sustain on longer acquaintance.
However, I worried that striving for a 'feminine' manner of speaking (which would require much more work to achieve and sustain) might lead acquaintances to feel that I was becoming a different person, or that I was conforming to a gender stereotype rather than being the 'real' me (as they saw it, obviously).
In the fifty-four years of our mutual acquaintance, I cannot remember our ever having sustained so prolonged a silence in each other's company.
Diasporas have sustained us.
Justice Michael Obus sustained it.
You can't eat a meal like this with a passing acquaintance since you'll be together for hours, but you can't go with somebody you really want to talk to, either, since there's little time between courses for sustained conversation.
Discursive, affectionate, and satirical by turns, it reads like a sustained monologue that is both a carefully studied piece of self-revelation and an acute (though not always reliable) portrait gallery of his Irish acquaintance, which included Yeats, Æ, and Lady Gregory.
It shows sustained improvement".
