Sentences with phrase «persons of acquaintance»

Some people of our acquaintance who know her well speak highly of her judicial talents.

And how you ultimately feel about Another Year may in the end depend less on your response to Manville's self - evident bravura, at once fully rounded and funny and unsettling, but to the persistence of a character who keeps being spoken of as a great mate and yet would send many (very kind) people of my acquaintance running a mile in search of respite.

He did not realize whose daughter I was when he performed the examination of my baby's remains; that is how I am assured of his objectivity, a rare attribute in local people of my acquaintance.

Not exact matches

For example, you might note to a new acquaintance that you just marked your fifteenth year in marketing, having progressed into a role that lets you work with some of the smartest people in the business.

It's the original Facebook: exchanging valuable information with other people face to face so that they think of you as an acquaintance instead of a fellow corporate cog.

Other studies have discovered that as people age, they seek out situations that will lift their moods — for instance, pruning social circles of friends or acquaintances who might bring them down.

«When you are 18 years old and driving your own Dodge Viper, people tend to want a piece of what you are doing,» writes an acquaintance via e-mail.

When I stopped by the Horseshoe, he was buying drinks for everyone who showed up — friend, acquaintance or media — urging people to try out a bike or enjoy a complimentary taco and then settling in the back of the club when the music started: a couple of little - known local indie bands played, and Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning — dressed as if he'd just arrived from Wimbledon's centre court — did a DJ set.

On the subject of the right people, you describe «the five contact circles» in your book (intimates, friends, key contacts, acquaintances and community at large).

Most people have bank accounts and credit cards, and when they need to send money to a friend, relative, or acquaintance, they can use any number of online services, from PayPal and Square to SnapChat and Facebook.

The variety of persons and views engaged, I confidently expect, is far greater than what might be found at a Jesuit seminary in Berkeley where academics churn out reviews unhindered by acquaintance with their subject.

I have some acquaintance with both of these men, and my sense is that, by and large, they are kind, open - hearted, humble people.

Years ago I discovered Doug Pagitt's blog and was interested to see what the «Emergent» thing was all about and if he was still the «same person» that I had met once and knew in an acquaintance sort of way because I was friends with, and then dating, one of his best friends.

How often have we turned on the evening news to yet another story of someone who committed some atrocious act and heard the reporter interviewing that person's neighbors and acquaintances and heard «We were shocked.»

When I discuss this idea with them, they frequently decide that most of the people they know in - person are actually «acquaintances,» people they only slightly know.

The means for this is a deepening acquaintance with the patterns of feeling and acting that one has acquired in relation to the important persons in one's own psychic history, coupled with a deepening appreciation of the worth of one's self.

Rorty's liberal ironist sees persons and cultures as «incarnated vocabularies» and tries to resolve her doubts about her own character or her own culture by enlarging her acquaintance of other people and cultures.

He dined with persons of respectable standing in local society, and he had at least one friend who moved in the highest ecclesiastical circles (he was an acquaintance of the High Priest» 12).

To be ignorant of the Bible is to have a blind spot to much that any educated, as well as any religious, person ought to have acquaintance with as part of his very being.

«When old acquaintances said that he had no religion they based their opinion on such remarks as that the God, of whom he had just been speaking solemnly, «was not a person.»

Perhaps the commonest expression of this assumption that spiritual value is undone if lowly origin be asserted is seen in those comments which unsentimental people so often pass on their more sentimental acquaintances.

Yet as one thinks of persons he knows to be unmistakably Christian, a certain pattern and quality of life are distinguishable, more readily discerned by acquaintance than defined in words, which give meaning and content to the term «personal Christian living.»

And if he has perceived this and assured himself that he has not courage to understand it, he will at least have a presentiment of the marvelous glory this knight attains in the fact that he becomes God's intimate acquaintance, the Lord's friend, and (to speak quite humanly) that he says «Thou» to God in heaven, whereas even the tragic hero only addresses Him in the third person.

When two people reveal themselves to one another over time, they can not help but gain acquaintance with the deep regions of the human experience.

Jesus is obviously no intrusion from outside into the history of the Jewish people; the slightest acquaintance with the story of his life coupled with an awareness of Jewish history demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that he was of the Jews in the most profound sense.

Literature, theater, film, the visual arts» a certain acquaintance with and command of these domains made people intellectuals.

A minister whose career is suffused with a perception of the «great church,» whose thinking bears the imprint of his or her acquaintance with living members of many church traditions, will be a minister who understands and knows how to welcome people searching for a new church home, those who have married into a new denomination, and those who feel that they must turn away from some aspect of their own history.

In fact, if he'd cast his net of acquaintances a bit wider than the officials he concurs with, he'd meet some interesting people.

It seemed to him necessary to distinguish the immediate «acquaintance with» God of the religious person from the indirect «knowledge about» to which at best scientific knowledge could lead.

His harangue hasn't changed in our twenty - year acquaintance, but this time it occurred to me that there was a tinge of conceit to it» that he resented the idea of being ministered to by people who, in all likelihood, were too inclined toward curial - obedience and therefore couldn't possibly have much to say to his finely tuned sensibilities.

He met there many of the people who would become close friends or remain acquaintances for the rest of his life, and many of whom would play some part in the unfolding drama which was to be set in motion by himself.

You will then be convinced, I trust, that these states of consciousness of «union» form a perfectly definite class of experiences, of which the soul may occasionally partake, and which certain persons may live by in a deeper sense than they live by anything else with which they have acquaintance.

I love to mix with all kinds of people — old friends, strangers and new acquaintances all excite me.

And I'll also have to say that my inherited role of being the unofficial Singaporean ambassador gives me the chance to catch up with people that I haven't met in years, or whom I was previously only acquaintances with, and have now become friends, such as Jeanie and Sin Yee.

As I type this I realize that so many of you young people will never experience what I am talking about because you have so much social media in your life you will not lose touch with even your most distant acquaintance.

Billions of human beings follow their separate paths, steps followed by steps largely unknown to the people around them — even friends and acquaintances.

2011 was the year of connections: I connected with so many awesome people, brands, companies, friends, and acquaintances in 2011.

It's also a convenient way to meet people outside of your circle of acquaintances.

Even if the message is reaching 50 % of people who already have their kids on a regular vax schedule it's not penetrating the echo chambers of the anti-vaxers and it's not giving the pro-vaxers the information they need to counter the claims of their friends and acquaintances who might be anti-vax.

Long before I had kids, I observed an acquaintance introducing her baby to a group of people.

Even a «retired» double agent will have lot's of acquaintances and can be used to make the right people to shake hands and this solely can link him to whatever conspiracy theory you do like.

Examples were given by participants of an acquaintance being put into an older people's home by his son.

Things he says wants to know: Were people from the community interviewed for jobs at this organization, or was acquaintance with Mr. Espaillat enough of a requisite to be hired?

Your network is made up of a range of people, including personal friends, family, and professional acquaintances.

Last year, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Roby Muhamad, and Duncan J. Watts reported the results of the Columbia Small World Research Project [2]: More than 60,000 e-mail users tried to reach one of 18 target people in 13 countries by forwarding messages to acquaintances.

These acquaintances will be people who will recognize your name immediately, and they might be in all areas of the country and in any type of position.

They say any two people on the planet are connected by a chain of at most six acquaintances.

They took all the e-mail data from an international firm and for one of its offices asked employees to list the people in their social network, dividing the list into friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.

Research suggests that any two people on Earth can be linked by a surprisingly small chain of intermediary acquaintances — an observation popularly known as the small - world effect.

I asked some of my acquaintances, people I know only casually, if with their permission and under their supervision I could break into their online banking accounts.