Bekanntschaft / Acquaintance Ehrlich / Honest Fremder / Stranger Freund / Friend Insbesondere / Particularly Kritik / Criticism Nehmen / Take Relativ / Relative Schwer / Hard
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
I particularly like Facebook because it straddles the gap between seeing people and not seeing them.
I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
I think it's so hard to get really, really strong parts where the actress can act. It's rare.
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.
I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
