My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.
In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year.
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
I'm not dating Prateik; he is just a good acquaintance.