Sentences with phrase «across the dinner table»

And best - case scenario, you'll find yourself sitting across the dinner table from President Obama.

He sat across the dinner table from Zacchaeus.

He paused, looking out across the dinner table as if over a measureless vista, and wistfully remarked that there were features of devotion that he — a dying man — was just beginning to explore.»

Just moved out here from Europe and looking to find someone to smile with across the dinner table.

These incredibly generous benefits for survivors predictably set off a firestorm of chat online (and produced at least one sly look across the dinner table from a Googler's spouse).

In the aftermath, I was left with years of memories and a smartphone that couldn't provide enjoyable company across a dinner table, share in the joys of experiencing a concert or kiss me goodnight before bed — all these things I had previously taken for granted simply because I was too preoccupied looking for fulfillment from a screen.

This sounds like the echo of tirades that rolled across dinner tables and bars throughout the mid-twentieth century.

Last night on the British period drama, Lord Grantham's health mystery came to graphic fruition when he vomited blood across the dinner table, a potentially life - threatening consequence of his stomach ulcer.

«How I Met Your Mother,» «Slapsgiving» Fighting the urge to reach across the dinner table and wallop your obnoxious druncle?

But up until the early 1990s, book deals between editors and writers were often done across a dinner table with a handshake, with the agent left to handle the calls with the contract department later.

The connections that we share — across continents or just across the dinner table — are at the heart of Meldrum's richly evocative novel.

The candlelight and the sunset cast a magical glow across the dinner table and the food is wonderful.

The Skype connections we have managed have been more functional updates on how much our children have eaten and whether I've managed to figure out how to stop Dominic from hurling his fork across the dinner table, smacking his own hand, and then smiling defiantly at me (no, in short).

Or that I could look at a friend across the dinner table and ask, «Hey, is my clit hanging straight?»

It's no secret that the Church argues like true family members sitting across the dinner table from one another.

He paused, looking out across the dinner table as if over a measureless vista, and wistfully remarked that there were features of devotion that he» a dying man» was just beginning to explore.»

Jeff was sitting across the dinner table from Jen, his wife's best friend, and she was telling him how difficult it is to find reliable and affordable gluten - free products.

Why would he say that altars should not allow the priest to face his brothers and sisters in Christ as across a dinner table?

I find myself nonstop distracted by a little white screen — across the dinner table, on the couch «watching» a show together, first thing in the morning — and let's be honest, it ain't good for my relationship.

however the issues arise when you huskily murmur «pass the gravy, tiger» across the dinner table, and your mother - in - law spits her white wine across the room.

There are some basic items you can check off and think about while sitting across the dinner table, therefore increasing your chances of dating success:

Then you find yourself sitting across the dinner table from some insufferably self - centered slob, frantically searching your mind for a plausible excuse you can utter so he will shut up and take you home.

Do they represent our apprehension of what hostility lies behind all those blank faces in the office, at the mall, across the dinner table?

Back in 1994, I sat across the dinner table from Claude Allègre, who arrived late.

In the past you might get a card in the mail asking if you wanted a life or health insurance agent to come by and discuss the products with you face to face, across the dinner table.

They will work equally well whether you're talking via a long distance phone line or across the dinner table.

I'd find myself worrying that Mike would have changed — that I'd look at him across the dinner table that night and wonder if I knew him at all.