Sentence examples for thorough acquaintance with from inspiring English sources

He also gained a thorough acquaintance with the French language.

It is the second episode in what will be at least a trilogy — the third installment is scheduled for release next summer — and full appreciation of its whirligig plot will depend on thorough acquaintance with the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" picture, conveniently available for purchase on DVD.

Lord Lloyd Webber's thorough acquaintance with the canon of 18th- and 19th-century classical music is not in doubt, but his attempt to force a marriage between that tradition and modern musical theater represents a victory of pseudo-populist grandiosity over taste -- an act of cultural butchery akin to turning an aviary of graceful swans and brilliant peacocks into an order of Chicken McNuggets.

This is the ocean, which we have thorough scientific acquaintance with.

His acquaintance with European history is impressive.

Over time, I developed a nice acquaintance with a customer.

"The acquaintance with the past is a must.

I'm impatient to renew acquaintance with both.

You have only a passing acquaintance with the truth.

His acquaintance with them helped familiarize him with modernism.

They had no acquaintance with the substance being refined.