Sentences with phrase «about at cocktail parties»

Life insurance isn't one of those topics you typically hear people talking about at cocktail parties or while making conversation with the guy or gal next to you on the treadmill at the gym.

Not only is it environmentally friendly, it's fun to talk about at cocktail parties.

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«The market is going up some more... People are still not talking at cocktail parties about the hot stocks,» he said.

Whether you're in Monaco for the mega yacht parties, the 21 gaming rooms of the legendary casino or the $ 30 cocktails (and $ 8,000 dames de compagnie) at the Beaux Arts masterpiece Hôtel de Paris, this miniature country is all about excess — furs, diamond heirlooms and magnums required.

Suppose you overhear your best friend's dentist's nanny talking about a company called Huge Fruit at a cocktail party.

Who's excited about an easy peasy cocktail that will thrill everyone at your parties this season?

His new cookbook shares 100 Mediterranean - inspired recipes, such as lentil skillet bread, hearts of palm calamari with cocktail sauce and lemon - caper aioli, pappardelle bolognese (using handmade pasta), and decadent dark chocolate cake with figs and hazelnuts, that take vegan cooking to a whole new level and are sophisticated enough to serve at just about any dinner party, which make me especially excited about this book.

Last night at the cocktail party for CFDA Awards nominees we caught up with CFDA executive director Stephen Kolb, who reminisced about the time he met — and touched — Governor Eliot Spitzer in Washington, D.C.

Last night at the cocktail party for CFDA Awards nominees we caught up with CFDA executive director Stephen Kolb, who reminisced about the time he met — and touched — Governor Eliot Spitzer in Washington, D.C. Kolb visited our nation's capital to lobby for copyright protection for fashion designers with Narciso Rodriguez on February 14, the day after Spitzer allegedly hired a prostitute.

GUESSING someone's age can be risky at cocktail parties, but what about when their future is at stake?

If you are at a noisy cocktail party and suddenly hear someone nearby talking about you, your ability to eavesdrop on that conversation and ignore all the others around you could result from the synchronous firing of cells.

What I also love about Karen Kane is she is moderately priced and makes for the modern woman who is at work one minute and at a cocktail party the next!

By now you've probably heard that Donald Trump addressed a gathering of thousands of young Boy Scouts and ranted at them about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, the «fake news» media, the size of his electoral victory, and cocktail parties with real estate developers.

Okay, so you're at a cocktail party sipping brandy, and some rabid teacher union supporter starts mouthing off about Trump, DeVos, the evils of vouchers and, at the same time, waxing ecstatic about the glories of our traditional zip - code monopoly education system (Z MES).

Part of that is that I write and think about my fiction every spare waking moment (which makes me boring not so much fun at cocktail parties!

At the same time, however, this particular revelation has a lot of resonance, in that it short - circuits many of the usual cocktail party protestations to the contrary about models on which authors are compensated.

If you start talking about dividend investing at your next cocktail event, it's possible that other patrons may not see you as the life of the party.

Suppose you overhear your best friend's dentist's nanny talking about a company called Huge Fruit at a cocktail party.

When others are bragging at cocktail parties about their wizardry (really far more likely just dumb luck) in an upward trending stock market, you are likely to have to hold your tongue.

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At a Tuesday evening cocktail party for the British artist Sarah Lucas, whose contemporary exhibition, «Good Muse,» officially opens at the Legion of Honor on Saturday, July 15, Fine Arts Museums Director Max Hollein talked about the institution's new emphasis on contemporary arAt a Tuesday evening cocktail party for the British artist Sarah Lucas, whose contemporary exhibition, «Good Muse,» officially opens at the Legion of Honor on Saturday, July 15, Fine Arts Museums Director Max Hollein talked about the institution's new emphasis on contemporary arat the Legion of Honor on Saturday, July 15, Fine Arts Museums Director Max Hollein talked about the institution's new emphasis on contemporary art.

The goal of a film like «Cold Rush» is the viewer will be at a cocktail party a couple days later, someone will mention «bio-prospecting,» and the person will say, «Oh, I just saw a funny film about that — I got that it's about making money off bacteria in the Arctic, but how exactly does that work?»

The real key is to be so effective in your communications that when you talk to someone at a cocktail party who's not part of the green world, they'll «get it» immediately, and then be able to tell others about your business later.

Lucky for you, Andrew Cohen at Bench Conference has just what you need, «a «talking points» memo about the case that you can use at cocktail parties and barbeques this weekend.»

Ben Zarnett, partner at Goodmans LLP, stayed in touch with peers not by attending cocktail parties but by making a concerted effort to talk to them about his and their cases (both to seek and to provide advice about case strategy).

I happened to meet the Editor in Chief at a cocktail party and told her I wanted to come in and talk about the magazine, just because I was interested in the field.

This was actually a clever buzzword about ten years ago, as I would often hear it at pretentious cocktail parties and trade conventions.

If you meet them at a cocktail party, I beg you; ask them about anything but the economy.