And still I maintained no more than a
nodding acquaintance with him.
John Barleycorn
Even those who have hardly had a
nodding acquaintance with India-Pakistan relations gleefully grab the opportunity to pen down weighty dissertations evaluating the 'options'.
Modi is back - for better or for worse!
Goodman, it seems, 'would hardly claim to have more than a
nodding acquaintance with the visual arts.
Covering the Royal Academy's 200th anniversary in 1969, Apollo issued a gloomy--and thankfully mistaken--forecast
someone with more than a
nodding acquaintance to Wimbledon.
JPR REVEALS HE'D CHOOSE TENNIS NOW
In those days, we had only a
nodding acquaintance with JJ and we were quite surprised when one day he invited us to have tea with him at a posh restaurant in those days - Ampi's.
The Other Side of JJ
The flamboyant former Barcelona man is an electric, bamboozling blur of neon footwork, an exciting symphony of shifting body-weight and balance, an unpredictable light-theblue-touch-paper dribbler with only limited peripheral vision, spatial awareness or anything other than a vague
nodding acquaintance with tactical discipline."
A WING AND A PRAYER; Familiar face could stand between Villa and glory
The flamboyant former Barcelona man is an electric, bamboozling blur of neon footwork, an exciting symphony of shifting body-weight and balance, an unpredictable light-the-blue-touch-paper dribbler with only limited peripheral vision, spatial awareness or anything other than a vague
nodding acquaintance with tactical discipline.
They do say that opposites attract
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: The artist's work is included in this year's Documenta 14.
Ernest Mancoba: Aicon Gallery
He has only a
nodding acquaintance with the neighbors.
Helping Horace is hindered by lack of meaningful communication
Anyone with a
nodding acquaintance of the region's history will realize what Teguia is up to from the film's opening sequence.
Giving voice to Arab revolutions past
As a long term resident of the Bryn-Y-Gog estate Michael had a
nodding acquaintance with Bridger who had also previously lived there.
Whatever Mark Bridger did he'll never take way memories like these from us
Being professionally obliged to keep a
nodding acquaintance with "popular culture", I read Lady Gaga was leaping to the defence of Miley Cyrus for her "twerking".
MILEY MAKES IT HARD TWERK
Students are presumed to have at least a
nodding acquaintance with the Fourier transform of distributions, the Sobolev embedding theorems, and the Fredholm Theorem.
Dispersion decay and scattering theory
Similarly, coal mining contracts were awarded to firms which had a
nodding acquaintance with power, steel and cement production.
Firms with ' rigged' units got coal blocks
At the end of the eight-day cruise we were on first-name terms with at least 30 fellow passengers and on
nodding acquaintance with perhaps 50 more.
The river road is our German shepherd; On a cruise down the picturesque rivers that flow through Germany, Graham Bright spies vineyards, castles and historic towns from the comfort of his floating hotel TRAVEL