Sentences with phrase «bull session»

I mean, after all, life is nothing more than an extended college dorm bull session, correct?

Decades ago when I was a graduate student, I found myself in one of those extended bull sessions of a kind to which grad students in political science are prone, with half a dozen people discussing everything from texts in political philosophy to current affairs.

They read like transcripts of late - night college bull sessions or very, very rough drafts of a first - year seminarian's essay on God.

The issues of the Prague Spring and the present restructuring of Soviet and Czechoslovakian political culture were quite plainly the product of dormitory room bull sessions.

Oftentimes people wouldn't have read the assignments, and the discussion would simply turn into some sort of bull session where people would simply debate poorly thought - out personal opinions.

-- offered to a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science the usual college dormitory bull session reasons for answering the question in the negative.

It's a fascinating experiment, the product of one of those late - night bull sessions fuelled by cigarettes and whiskey where aspiring artist - types and freshman cosmology students get profound with one another.

Through long days and late nights and bull sessions at P.F. Chang's, she grew close to several staffers, including a volunteer named Bryan Sanders, who would be hired full - time and later become her husband.

Well, some time ago a group of college students came out of a long bull session where they had discussed religion, and one of them summed up the result.

majors switched to economics, and bull sessions became concerned with national as well as campus politics.

Good times on internet radio last night: I sat down with the FDH Lounge's Rick Morris for one of our occasional political bull sessions.

Just about every Friday, whoever's available drifts over to the faculty lounge at the mechanical and aerospace engineering department on campus and joins in a high - level bull session on how to find planets.

Or will these slackers stay glued to their couches, entertaining themselves with interminable Linklater-esque bull sessions?

Gosh, the endless sophomoric bull sessions it will generate!

Clubs, sports, relationships, activities, dorm bull sessions, all that good stuff, they deserve their space and time and it'd be a shame to miss out on that because you're on the 2nd shift at Wal - Mart 40hrs / week.

By contrast, some of the new «social justice» solutions smack of a dorm room bull session.

For this thrilling, behind - closed - doors account of that campaign, renowned cinema verité filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker captured the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton's crack team of consultants — especially James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, who became media stars in their own right as they injected a savvy, youthful spirit and spontaneity into the process of campaigning.

I remember one of those 2:00 A.M. college bull sessions that gave a much younger me the beginnings of an education.

The ideas provoke — but we have heard them before, in other books or films or in college bull sessions.

The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century by forrest g. wood alfred a. knopf 517 pages, $ 29.95 I remember one of those 2:00 A.M. college bull sessions that gave a much younger me the beginnings of an education.

It was then that we realized that the semiannual overnight gripe and bull session was not enough.

But their courtship feels more like a bull session between a couple of newly arrived college freshmen who share ultra-earnest tidbits about the meaning of life while sharing a crusty bong.

As I engage in the so - called «bull sessions» around and about the school, I too often find that most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education.

The AGU serves free beer at around 3PM, which is a good time to start a bull session with a poster presenter.