Sentences with phrase «in ordinary conversation»

Generally, in ordinary conversation and even in formal testimony if someone says something that they clearly don't mean and you want to be sure of their true meaning anyway, you ask a question that makes the kind of distinction that you are making clear and confirm that this is really what the person meant to say or is really not what the person meant to say.

Now he thrusts a camera between himself and life, videoing his two — and only — friends in ordinary conversation.

In ordinary conversation, that's a friendly action; it's a way of showing that you're listening, that you accept what the person is saying.

That is why in some societies people have a real name which is kept secret, and are known in ordinary conversation by periphrases or substitute names.

One may need to look up words not used in ordinary conversation to understand what Berger means when he writes: «the problem of theodicy was solved in terms of eschatology» or «one should not confuse epistemology (i.e., knowledge) with historical gratitude.»

Instead of investing theological significance in a theory about how the mind intuits objects of sense data, or about the reality of the world external to consciousness, or about the extent to which the mind is creative in producing experience, Green focuses on the role of imagination, a term which refers in ordinary conversation to fantasy and illusion, but which also refers to discovery, illumination and reality.

Let us take belief in its widest sense, as when we use the words «I believe» in ordinary conversation.

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In the course of our conversation I uttered some rather ordinary platitude about the family being the fundamental unit of society.

I do not use it as much as the Times does, and I think it should not be used in a way that precludes the conversation and persuasion that should be, but is not, the ordinary mode of public discourse.

For if, realistically considered, each «mind» to be stocked with information is as separate from every other one as one Kansas silo waiting to be stocked with grain is from one other in a rail - side row, contact and conversation between students can only be regarded as inefficient — as «noise» in both the ordinary and the technical sense.

Allusion is actually quite common; in ordinary speech and conversation, we can not do without it, for if everything mentioned were immediately glossed, a single page of text would stretch into hundreds of pages and assertion would be forever deferred.

This can happen in casual conversation through ordinary friendships or in a formal setting like a school governors group, and so on.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The author intends to present the portrait of a man of extraordinary accomplishment in the fields of religion, politics, linguistics and ecclesiology, but also as an ordinary man whose letters and reported conversations reveal his struggle with the ordinary issues of a person of his time.

The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.

I have conversations with «ordinary Americans» all the time, and I find their opinions about the school meals served in the very school where they send their kids, or where some even teach, to be out of touch with the foods, the variety and the quality of those foods, offered each day.

Lots of people have spoken at EU events I've attended have said they want to have a conversation about how we can try and have get a Europe that look like it works a bit better for ordinary citizens — not the rich guys in suits zooming about doing the deals but on things that make a difference to their lives like better rights at work.

The app runs in the background on an ordinary smartphone, and automatically monitors the patients» voice patterns during any calls made as well as during weekly conversations with a member of the patient's care team.

In a tribute published on Vogue.com in December, Wintour described Sozzani as «no ordinary friend,» and said they had reflected on their «children's miraculous love affair» in conversations before her deatIn a tribute published on Vogue.com in December, Wintour described Sozzani as «no ordinary friend,» and said they had reflected on their «children's miraculous love affair» in conversations before her deatin December, Wintour described Sozzani as «no ordinary friend,» and said they had reflected on their «children's miraculous love affair» in conversations before her deatin conversations before her death.

I find great satisfaction from the most ordinary things: a first cup of steaming coffee on the deck in the quiet early morning... good manners on the freeway... a brisk walk with the dog... and having great conversations in any setting.

Set in a listed building that has been preserved to a high standard, this is a bar that provides you with something out of the ordinary, so even if the conversation is slow between you and your date, you'll have the beer and surroundings to discuss.

But back in ordinary life, I wouldn't announce it to the world, it would just strike too many controversial conversations about ethics and then I'll have to get into the whole explanation, as long as I know..

There's a certain class of low - budget indie filmmaking that's become almost its own recognizable style — full of ordinary people just trying to find happiness in unorthodox ways, hand - held close - up shots, montages of locations (easily recognized if you live in the area where they're shot, but not particularly tied to the story, which could take place anywhere) with light music underneath, a tendency to shift focus amateurishly (though I think often on purpose as part of the style), a lot of contemplative pauses and awkward conversations.

2010 The Social Network 2009 UP IN THE AIR 2008 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 2007 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima 2005 Good Night, And Good Luck 2004 Finding Neverland 2003 Mystic River, Clint Eastwood, presented by Laura Linney 2002 The Hours, presented to Scott Rudin by Julianne Moore 2001 Moulin Rouge, presented to Baz Luhrmann, by Stanley Donen 2000 Quills, presented to Peter Kaufman, Julia Chassman and Philip Kaufman by Geoffrey Rush 1999 American Beauty, presented to Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinx by David Denby 1998 Gods and Monsters, presented to Bill Condon by Clive Barker 1997 L.A. Confidential, presented to Curtis Hanson by David Denby 1996 Shine, presented to Scott Hicks and Jane Scott by Isaac Stern 1995 Sense & Sensibility, presented to Lindsay Doran by Alan Pakula 1994 Pulp Fiction, presented to Laurence Bender by Jennifer Beals Forrest Gump, presented to Wendy Finerman by Inez Glucksman 1993 Schindler's List 1992 Howards End 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 1990 Dances With Wolves 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 1987 Empire of the Sun 1986 A Room with a View 1985 The Color Purple 1984 A Passage to India 1983 Betrayal 1982 Gandhi 1981 Chariots of Fire 1980 Ordinary People 1979 Manhattan 1978 Days of Heaven 1977 The Turning Point 1976 All the President's Men 1975 Nashville 1974 The Conversation 1973 The Sting 1972 Cabaret 1971 Macbeth 1970 Patton 1969 They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

In a conversation for this series, Machado explained how Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House became a kind of call to arms, especially a scene where a little girl refuses an ordinary water glass — insisting instead on drinking from an adorned «cup of stars.»

According to Deadline, Al Pacino is in talks to play A.J. Manglehorn, «an aging, ordinary guy in a small town who nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day.»

From the famous «Erased de Kooning Drawing,» in which he both puckishly defied and meticulously paid tribute to his abstract expressionist contemporary, to his performance work with Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Trisha Brown and others, to his globe - spanning Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, which propagated new work with artists, poets and ordinary people in 10 countries, Rauschenberg was engaged in a kind of perpetual conversation.

Artist talk: Rediscovering the ordinary Michele Mathison in conversation with Liese Van Der Watt (critic).

Kristalova has crafted the environment to create a surreal atmosphere that places viewers in a flux between a dreamy and surreal place, and an ordinary space where conversations and interactions occur.

There are also the conversations with ordinary people, who are victims of the remote and detached politics in Europe, which add so much more to this documentary than just a collection of facts to show that you are in the right.

Grassroots movements offer up a multitude of creative and inspiring ways for ordinary folks to get involved in changemaking, both from the bottom up, and as a conversation space through which we can come to terms with our own power to make a difference.

Turning the books and bookcase itself into a both an artistic, organizational tool and a surefire conversation starter, this piece has been handcrafted out of wood and makes the formerly ordinary activity of arranging one's paper books into one of preciousness and great forethought — something that can be hard to come by nowadays in our overly busy world.

Examples of such systems or economies can be found in, for example, Aboriginal cultural property, Open Source software, the fashion industry, blogging, academic citation, ordinary conversation, journalism, historical publishing practices, and the world of libraries and education.

Facebook said it uses the same automated tools to scan conversations as it does to monitor the public portion of the social network, and the team jumps in when it's alerted to something out of the ordinary or a clear violation.

Sometimes ordinary tasks are really much more than they sound like in conversation.