first acquaintance
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Those tears were my first acquaintance with the harsh truth of a baseball aphorism: The ball will always find you.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
If it’s your first acquaintance with his work, you’re in for a roughly evocative, suspenseful tale in the same compelling vein as the Dardenne brothers’ intimate, propulsive and nonjudgmental character studies of desperation and morality.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022
“What a dignified and serious city!” exclaimed Friedrich Nietzsche on first acquaintance in the late 19th century.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2017
Of course, even when a work grabs us on first acquaintance and never lets go, it still evolves.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2012
Upon my first acquaintance with West Indians, I was particularly surprised to hear them talk so much about lumber, and of Mr. This and Mr. That dealing in such commodity.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
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