None of the quarrymen were intimate friends of mine. I had a nodding acquaintance with them.

The agnostic is open towards atheism and metaphysics. The anti-agnostic selects only one option: either atheism or metaphysics, and is not agnostic about that!

The contraktniki are implicated in the worst brutalities. […] On the night of April 7th the contraktniki went into the village. By the next morning over 200 people were dead.

Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!