You must have a wide acquaintance among the astigmatic, haven't you, Freddie, dear?
Just as the personal caricature was for an audience that knew the original, so the cartoon was and is based on wide acquaintance with the subject.
A retired professional with a wide acquaintance in Europe, he had dismissed all his staff in January 1993 and was running through his savings at the house he had built in the suburbs.
After the war, she worked on and off as a waitress, took in boarders, and, as a favor to her friends — she had a wide acquaintance among the shadier elements of Lower Town society — occasionally performed abortions.
Groves told them that he was looking for someone with "a sound understanding of both practical and theoretical ordnance-high explosives, guns and fusing-a wide acquaintance and an excellent reputation among military ordnance people and an ability to gain their support; a reasonably broad background in scientific development; and an ability to attract and hold the respect of scientists".
Our practices with regard to assessing people's taste entail that judgments of taste that reflect idiosyncratic bias, ignorance, or superficiality are not as good as judgments that reflect wide-ranging acquaintance with various objects of judgment and are unaffected by arbitrary prejudices.
Wilde worked hard to solicit good contributions from his wide artistic acquaintance, including those of Lady Wilde and his wife Constance, while his own "Literary and Other Notes" were themselves popular and amusing.
Those who know him -- and it is a wide circle of acquaintance, encompassing architects, designers, artists, collectors, rock stars, hotel and restaurant owners and magazine writers with whom he maintains a nearly constant dialogue -- wouldn't call him a decorator, but that doesn't mean they have a better word at hand.
In this engaging biography, Holden stresses Hunt's abilities as a networker, arguing that he gathered the "widest circle of acquaintance" in nineteenth-century English letters.
3. Friends: what I share with wider friends and acquaintances.
I had a much wider circle of acquaintances.
