Sentences with phrase «sense of acquaintance»

«Knowledge» in the sense of acquaintance with data, of course, is not enough.

Not exact matches

Perhaps company policies could include 45 - minute lunch breaks, since American researchers found that this length of time spent in substantive conversation — not small talk — fosters a sense of closeness between mere acquaintances.

In a strictly functional sense, MLM is a way to exploit natural networks of acquaintances, with participants (predominantly women), first selling / recruiting others in their circle; these latter, in turn, do the same, and so (in the hopes of the MLM company) ad infinitum..

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

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

None of my acquaintances has had more gaiety or good cheer or a sharper or more bracing sense of humor.

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.

Thus their «reality» is restricted neither to «direct acquaintance» nor to ideal construction; it is involved in any objectification of them, cognitive or otherwise, and it is in this nonidealist sense that their reality extends «so far as it works».

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.

As Brandreth writes in the introduction, forsaking all modesty, he has been collecting humorous quotations since he was a small child, and, with no sense of self - awareness, proceeds to list as personal acquaintances many of those quoted — «There is almost no one who was born over the past one hundred years and who is quoted in the Dictionary whom I have not met».

They acquired or purchased stimulants from friends or acquaintances, were more likely than controls to indicate they used any drugs to «get high» and reported a lower overall sense of well being.

In my research (which consists of Socratic - style questioning of hundreds of friends, acquaintances, coworkers, clients, and strangers) I've seen how the whole relationship lockdown breeds an almost viral tendency to take the other person for granted, to have huge expectations, and to deliver this all from a sense of duty and obligation — without a thank you!

You might have lots of acquaintances but without a true sense of self, it might be hard to cultivate any really close friends.

The majorities of acquaintances councils for the men with simple common sense, but to the surprise the large number of men to ignore them and in the final analysis pay for this.

JS: Well first of all, I think you've really got to have a great sense of humor about it, and you need to go on every date thinking that you could possibly be making a new friend and even a business acquaintance, or if you're lucky, maybe you could find someone you could fall in love with.

This place is one of those areas which give out sense of mutual tenderness bringing you nearer to love as the best will please you that you and your Indiana partner of acquaintance can arise up.

Using acquaintances sites it can be difficult, if you live in small cities in Great Britain, only so many people are signed to such sites of sense it is not large way variety.

As readers, while we may want to understand a character, just as we'd want to get to know a new acquaintance, we're more likely to turn pages if that understanding also contributes to a sense of the greater story.

In a real - world example, we could compare that sense of a bigger picture to wanting to know how well we can relate to a new acquaintance — could they become a friend?

Successful breeders have already made the acquaintance of a breeder's best friend, Common Sense.

If painting as a practice is viewed with far more skepticism today, the sense of conversation evoked by the works on this wall — and in a smaller room off the main gallery, which is also filled with the art of Schloss's friends and acquaintances — rings eerily familiar.

Like Alice Neel, Casteel depicts friends and acquaintances in quiet, intimate settings, conveying a sense of contentment and security.