Sentence examples for that acquaintance from inspiring English sources

According to James, just as one is not likely to make friends if one is aloof, likewise one is not likely to become acquainted with the perfect being, if there is such, if one seeks that acquaintance only after sufficient evidence has been gathered.

These days lots of children are intimately familiar with immigrants, and polls suggest that acquaintance with them breeds acceptance rather than contempt.

Now, in mid-1996, K.soughtoughtoto renew that acquaintance, at a point when Bin Ladin had just moved to Afghanistan from the Sudan.

In every case, however, it should be kept in mind that acquaintance with the artist's biography is a means toward an end, the enhanced appreciation and understanding of the work of art, and that otherwise it is aesthetically irrelevant.

I hope I'm too savvy to have this happen again, but if it does, at least that acquaintance I met in a seminar two summers ago and the British couple I haven't spoken to in five years will be spared.

Their view is that acquaintance is a particularly fundamental sort of psychological, hence natural, relation.

Several mentioned the harsh penalties that acquaintances had faced when they were caught up in drug problems.

He drank quite a bit, but there was never an embarrassment of self-exposure that acquaintances might marvel at.

Dorrinson said that acquaintances used to view him as a source of wisdom on a wide range of subjects, but added, "Ever since Ben Carson said that prisons make people gay, that's really fallen off".

On Wednesday, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, revealed that acquaintances of Mr. Greene had told investigators that he talked of "making bombs," with which he planned to "blow up" Washington Arch at Washington Square Park.

Tarrant and Uris wrote about the categories of worklife crises in their book, and I have listed them below, along with real situations that acquaintances of mine have found themselves in.