Sentences with phrase «of nodding acquaintances»

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

That's hard to answer on the basis of a nodding acquaintance with a brand - new vehicle, especially when the thing has so many positive attributes.

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Neither statement betrayed more than a nodding acquaintance with basic principles of population biology.

«The first North American solo exhibition of Ernest Mancoba included four small paintings ranging in date from 1958 to 1985 (one is undated) and some twenty works on paper (many of them likewise undated, but the others are mostly from the early 1990s), giving art lovers on this side of the Atlantic at least a nodding acquaintance with an oeuvre I suspect we are going to get to know much better in coming years.»