Sentences with phrase «avoid meaningful conversation»

Yes, it's important to keep things pleasant, but that doesn't mean you need to avoid meaningful conversation.

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Even though I feel a crushing anxiety whenever the phone rings, or when I cross the street to avoid small talk with a stranger, and even though I'm the one huddled in a corner having a meaningful conversation with someone while everyone else is mingling at a party, I can still confidently give a talk to a room full of students like I've been doing it all my life.

Unfortunately, there were a few teachers who must have had one too many bad experiences with evaluation conversations and basically told me to read out their evaluation, let them sign it, and avoid engaging in any meaningful conversation.

In his book How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk, Dr. Van Epp explains that asking the right questions to inspire meaningful, revealing conversations with your partner and judging character based on compatibility, relationship skills, friends, and patterns from familial and previous relationships should tell you what you need to know about a potential life partner.

I pretended I did, then I'd divert the conversation by making him laugh, thus avoiding a meaningful response.