Sentences with phrase «as at cocktail parties»

He uses this phrase on his website, as well as at cocktail parties.

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Far too many companies market and sell using words they found in a thesaurus as opposed to words they would use at a cocktail party.

This recipe comes together in a pinch for an updated shrimp cocktail appetizer — and will be devoured just as fast at any party.

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.

These would also be really great served as meatballs with pineapple / bell pepper / onion chunks swimming in the sauce at a cocktail party, or as sliders for a casual event.

Savor the Moment (our Junior league cookbook) has a strawberry soup that a clever friend of mine served as an appetizer at a cocktail party for her daughter's wedding shower.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to be a «guest of honor» at a fundraiser for the Queens Democratic committee on Oct. 27 billed as «pre-election cocktail party.»

Cameron and Clegg joshed away together in the rose garden at Number 10 as if they'd just walked in from a joint cocktail party.

The «Lost in Translation» star was billed as the official host of the $ 2,500 - a-head cocktail party, held at a private residence inside The Plaza Hotel, and she delivered a «thoughtful introduction» for the BP, according to several attendees.

At six foot two, André Kuipers does not necessarily stand out among his dutch compatriots at a cocktail party, but as an astronaut he is a gianAt six foot two, André Kuipers does not necessarily stand out among his dutch compatriots at a cocktail party, but as an astronaut he is a gianat a cocktail party, but as an astronaut he is a giant.

DEVICES like Amazon's Echo and Google Home can usually deal with requests from a lone person, but like us they struggle in situations such as a noisy cocktail party, where several people are speaking at once.

At cocktail parties, see what's being offered and stick to 3 - 5 appetizers maximum as one hors d'oeuvre can have anywhere from 40 - 80 calories.

And there's a good reason why these drinks remain a fundamental part of those culture: like digestive bitters, these cocktail bitters really do elicit the same beneficial response as their medicinal counterparts (as my experience at my German friend's dinner parties suggests).

It could be ideal at an upscale cocktail party, as well.

If you have an invitation to go out for a fancy evening, such as to a restaurant dinner, a play at the theater, a cocktail party, etc., here are some outfit ideas to inspire you.

But this dress is also perfect to keep a dominant place in the bride's post wedding wardrobe as she could make a stunning appearance wearing it at any cocktail, garden or dinner party as well.

It was the second annual «shopping day» for OnStage, a program created last year by Ms. Friedman in which women donate black - tie gowns and cocktail dresses to Juilliard's students, who are expected to be outfitted in fancy attire at their many auditions and performances, as well as at galas and parties.

I like to look at online dating as if it's a virtual cocktail party.

At Table For Six we have loads of events happening all the time, we do everything such as Cocktail Parties, Speed dating, Sporting Activities, Waiheke Table For Six, Auckland, New Zealand.

A fiercely intelligent woman in a world of swaggering men who leer at her like she's an unattended purse, Graham still feels like one of the girls — she cowers before executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as though he's her boss, and maneuvers between the gender - segregated rooms of a cocktail party with an ambidextrousness that alienates her from both sides of the house.

Presented as a series of episodes, many of which out of order, we bounce through the life of Zamperini as if it's a story being told at a cocktail party.

A cocktail party features glasses of wine held by men and women and a few of each drink from their glasses, a man at a party sips from a glass of whiskey and another man chugs from a bottle of clear liquor (the label is hidden), a man drinks expensive whiskey in his office and his living room, a man holds an open can of beer on a sidewalk, four men in the back of a pickup truck drink from beer cans as the vehicle is moving, a man drinks from a small bottle of whiskey in his living room (the scene cuts to him lying asleep on the floor with the empty bottle, two crushed beer cans, and a cigarette butt around him), a man at a party says that he is wasted (implying intoxication, no drugs are seen or mentioned), a man offers a worker a 6 - pack of beer to bring a shovel and help clean a bathroom (please see the Violence / Gore category for more details), a man offers another man a drink and he declines saying that he is high on life, and a man holds a can that could be beer.

Above, I called The Avengers a «superhero hoedown»; it might more accurately be described as the opening - night cocktail party at a corporate superhero retreat.

Most of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance of a realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation of the song «Lover» for a musical film, and in the tape manipulation of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement of actors in a shot so as to highlight the presence of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a film - within - the - film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background of a shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).

Vanilla Sky comes off as the cinematic equivalent of the blowhard at the cocktail party spewing trivial non-sequiturs wrapped in purple hyperbole in the hopes that someone gullible will fall in line for a joyless ravishing.

At a Toronto cocktail party, Dench, who is 82, admitted to me that all she had to do was find the universality in people who survive as their friends die around them; she has lost seven people close to her in the past year, including her brother Peter.

First seen as an embassy attaché schmoozing it up at a soon - to - be-violently-interrupted diplomatic cocktail party in the swanky, pre-Lebanese Civil War early»70s, Hamm's Mason Skiles is «a front - runner who stumbled,» in the words of one character.

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.

My dad likes to tell this story at cocktail parties, as a cautionary tale to young people.

Dogs mixed and mingled with humans at Animal Rescue of New Orleans» «Un Refuge de l'Orage III,» a fundraising cocktail party that saw pups enjoying treats galore as well as adoring gazes from partygoers there to support this no - kill shelter.

In addition to being stationed at your door upon arrival and greeting your party with complimentary champagne, your personal Butler will serve you and your guests tableside for all in - room meals and cocktails, provide complimentary laundering and shoe - shine services, and serve as your personal concierge coordinating with all of the resort's departments to ensure fulfillment of your every request.

Here, you can enjoy a whole raft of cocktails or even a sugar cane rum or vodka «bucket» while watching the nightly fire dances (19:00, 21:00 and 23:00) as well as at the Friday and Monday night parties.

Phuket's beach club formula includes: setting up a stylish modern restaurant / bar made from natural elements as near to the sea and sand as possible, organising the occasional party with internationally recognised DJs / artists, mixing it up with some capable barmen who know how to fix cocktails, adding a talented chef who can create delicious tapas and classy snacks to accompany the drinks... the final touch... a beautiful sunset to ensure everyone has the perfect evening at the beach club.

The party kicks off in the early afternoon at Paradise Beach, so chuck on your sarong and hit the table tops, as pumping beats and fab cocktails make for the best party this side of sunset.

The catering company has a wide range of cuisines and gourmet meals that would be great to serve at all sorts of special events such as buffets, cocktail parties, BB!

Helyn Goldenberg of Sotheby's Chicago led a live auction that included experiences such as a one - on - one outing and original painting by artist Amanda Williams; a cocktail party for ten at the Stony Island Arts Bank; and a weekend art excursion to Michigan that included a tour of Judy Ledgerwood and Tony Tasset's new home and studio.

Think abstract artists and beatniks in downtown Manhattan, Peggy Guggenheim and her new gallery Art of this Century, cocktail parties on the Upper East Side, Pollock's drip paintings, jazz, beat poetry, dancing the jitterbug and sipping Martinis at the Savoy as we celebrate the era when New York overtook Paris as the capital of the art world.

Following the cocktail party where Lana Adair served as DJ, a private dinner at Cotogna included guests Alexis Traina, Stephan Jenkins, Jessica Silverman, Buell, and Béhar.

2) Question: I work at a casino as a cocktail waitress and I would like to get some shifts in the «Party Pit» where the high - rollers hang out!

Kelly Hoey (Author, Speaker, Investor)-- If you think of networking as schmoozing at boring cocktail parties or scrolling through LinkedIn for new contacts to add, think again.

I recall as a law student having to attend a number of cocktail parties at law firms when applying for jobs, and we all knew we were being assessed for our «fit» in that environment just as much as we were at the formal interviews.

At some point, any level of detail like this will turn off a broader audience, and that's something that everyone needs to realize at an event such as a dinner or cocktail partAt some point, any level of detail like this will turn off a broader audience, and that's something that everyone needs to realize at an event such as a dinner or cocktail partat an event such as a dinner or cocktail party.

Understanding how to use the Internet for building relationships and a word of mouth reputation will be as important as knowing how to take someone to lunch or networking at a cocktail party.»

Posed by the genuinely perplexed as well as the hardened heckler — often at a cocktail party when the defender has a drink in hand and his or her guard down — the lawyer tries not to seem bored or peeved while offering a range of replies: personal, professional, political.

I remember my first cocktail party — it was at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP as part of a moot I was participating in and I was incredibly uncomfortable.

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

It's interior design overlap at its best as a cosy flat that looks like a cocktail bar is currently on the market and just the thing for 24 - hour party people...

Using beautiful wood boards, such as the boards featured below, with silver - tone crab icons is an excellent way to serve cheese at room temperature for dinner parties or cocktail parties.