Sentences with phrase «dinner conversation in»

Pellizzi: All of these different histories and backgrounds built up and eventually led to a dinner conversation in which we began to talk about William Burroughs's shotgun paintings and Niki de Saint Phalle's «Shooting Paintings,» and so on.

After all, «anal glands» are not approved dinner conversation in most circles, and they're probably something you'd rather not think about.

The opportunity for candlelight dinner conversation in small - group setting is far more appealing for my taste.

In January, William F. Buckley reported on a dinner conversation in which conservatives were sharply divided over whether, if they knew then what they know now, they would have supported military action in Iraq.

With my dinner conversations in mind, I decided which aspect of my topic people could immediately relate to, and opened with it.

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The ads then promised whoever bought a Trump property before Feb. 21 would have the chance to meet the president's son for «a conversation and dinner» in India before the end of the month.

The inner and outer character conversations at the dinner table in the movie trailer, as well as the final credits, hint at the reality that we all experience in the business world.

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

Kennith Brandon, who grew up in B.C. but now earns his living in Calgary's oil and gas economy, says that was the conversation over dinner with friends on a recent Saturday night.

They were raised in homes that followed a different religion, usually something mainstream that wouldn't disrupt a dinner conversation with, say, the Beavers.

A professor of history once sat at dinner beside a woman he had never met and did his best to engage her in conversation.

So people liked to come and see what the rich and powerful did, and in the cases where two or more religious authorities were having dinner, the people like to listen in on their conversation.

Most of the recorded teaching of Scripture in Jesus is dinner time conversation or travel talk.

In thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and conversations short and long, I have heard God mentioned rarely, and when he is mentioned he is never talked of in a way that assumes his realitIn thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and conversations short and long, I have heard God mentioned rarely, and when he is mentioned he is never talked of in a way that assumes his realitin a way that assumes his reality.

I noticed three juniors that I'd hung out with in Winthrop Dining Hall for conversations after dinner, and their confused gazes unsettled me.

This exchange was carried on in numerous meetings, large and small, formally sponsored by Religion and Public Life as well as over informal lunches and dinners and drinks» a conversation among socially and politically and religiously passionate scholars and clergymen and even, sometimes, among the staff during the meetings at which we decided on the contents of the next issue of the magazine.

We met at a dinner party, and as we sat sipping martinis and seeking, as people do, some way into conversation, we discovered that we had grown up in the same city.

It's hard acknowledging the limits of a medium through which my own writing career has flourished, but I want you to know: The conversations we have here — as encouraging, informative, and life - changing as they can often be — are meant to be brought to dinner tables, coffee shops, AA meetings, parks, church fellowship halls, long car rides, dorm rooms, and diners, among people who (whether they agree or disagree) can look you in the eye and take you in, not as a brand but as a human being.

During the spirited dinner conversation that preceded the event a group of us got to talking about the important role that high - profile public figures can play in breaking down religious stereotypes.

In fact, I belong to a dinner club whose conversation consists exclusively of such denigration.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone says to me, (usually in response to some statement I've made about the role of women in the church or Christians and politics or some other wildly inappropriate subject for dinner conversation), «well I don't have the luxury of picking and choosing which parts of the Bible I take seriously.»

The early phone calls among potential members and the initial conversations in the shopping malls and around dinner tables conjured up a variety of churchly images.

I love to make this for dinner parties, because it's something you make ahead, and forget for 2 hours while in the oven, so you can easily participate in conversation with your friends.

I sat across from her in the salon where at least 50 people were having their dinner, the space bustling with the tinkering of cutlery and the sound of a dozen different conversations — and all I could hear was this.

I have found dinner ideas on walks, rocking babies in the middle of the night, and while eavesdropping on other people's conversations in line at the gas station, but I have often found moments of great insight in children's books.

In the dreamy twilight haze, food tastes more alive, conversation is more real and somehow more intimate, the sounds of the farm seduce, and it all just kind of goes to your head — this is dinner in paradise.&raquIn the dreamy twilight haze, food tastes more alive, conversation is more real and somehow more intimate, the sounds of the farm seduce, and it all just kind of goes to your head — this is dinner in paradise.&raquin paradise.»

During dinner, guests may engage in casual conversation about wines with an experienced wine maker or knowledgeable sommelier chosen for each event.

If served in small cute ramekins, this soup can be a real conversation piece at your dinner party.

But apparently for some couples who are encountering male infertility, asking the father - in - law to make a sperm donation is considered appropriate infertility dinner table conversation.

If family members are having dinner, watching TV or a movie together at home, don't let one child dominate the conversation in such a way that it blocks everyone else from expressing their opinions.

Second to these questions (that often fueled my dinner party conversations) though, was the amazement when these kids learned something that left them in awe.

While it can be hard to squeeze in family dinners juggling everyone's activities and schedules, it pays off in bonding and learning etiquette, staying connected, and practicing the art of conversation.

In our casual, everyday conversations around the dinner table, if we do not try and consistently see things from another person's viewpoint, if we do not try and understand how someone else who is struggling has gotten to the point of trouble that they are in, our teen will see us as judgmentaIn our casual, everyday conversations around the dinner table, if we do not try and consistently see things from another person's viewpoint, if we do not try and understand how someone else who is struggling has gotten to the point of trouble that they are in, our teen will see us as judgmentain, our teen will see us as judgmental.

Strike up a conversation about families at the dinner table or while driving in the car.

Parents of 6 - year - old children can expect their kids to be interested in dinner conversation and be able to have the attention span and self - control to sit for most of the meal.

Here's a conversation I had with my sister one day, I was making homemade salsa to go with dinner later in the day.

Elections are won at the water cooler, at the bar, at the dinner table, over the phone and in bed, and Obama's supporters were primed to know the messages, know the strategy and understand the stakes every time his candidacy came up in conversation.

The cities provide a range of more sophisticated venues for events, and the choice for eating and drinking means that business dinners can be conducted without political or commercial rivals listening in to your conversation at the one key restaurant.

We have become so desensitized in this country to issues that someone's sexual status is dinner conversation amongst high school students and corruption is now expected in politics.

«The BSkyB bid was mentioned at the dinner in our home in December, but I don't remember having a particularly forceful conversation with Mr Cameron on this.»

In keeping with Brown's version of the story, Blair recently said on Radio 4 that «the actual conversation» between the pair about who should be leader took place at two locations in Edinburgh, before the Granita dinneIn keeping with Brown's version of the story, Blair recently said on Radio 4 that «the actual conversation» between the pair about who should be leader took place at two locations in Edinburgh, before the Granita dinnein Edinburgh, before the Granita dinner.

At the GOP convention gala dinner last week, Long and state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox had a conversation during which they began to mend the fences that were broken during the battle over the gubernatorial race, in which Long successfully gambled on Rick Lazio over Cox's pick, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy.

Still, from the phone records in the FBI affidavit, parts of which are up on the Smoking Gun, it didn't seem like it was a woman - friendly workplace, from the male founder who said that a would - be call girl «looks like a butcher in my opinion» to the conversation about the «baggage» a worker with kids has to the outraged indignation of an applicant who was «shock and confuse» that the company expected its employees to have sex with men who don't even take them out to dinner.

FORMER top David Paterson administration staffers Charles O'Byrne and Sean Patrick Maloney deep in conversation over dinner at Le Singe Vert in Chelsea... BILL and Hillary Clinton holding hands at Cafe Carlyle (chaperoned by Chelsea) as Kelli O'Hara, on maternity leave from «South Pacific,» did her caberet act... KATY Perry and Estelle «doing lemon drop shots and downing champagne» at Greenhouse... MATTHEW Perry jogging in Runyon Canyon in LA, and «stopping so many times to play with his iPod, he probably would've burned more fat off if he stayed home on the couch eating ice cream.»

They moved to Stapleton in 2004 where he said progressive topics like income inequality were regular dinner table conversations.

For dinner, we filled Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe in Glens Falls, enjoying a vegan meal and some superb conversations.

What is known is that Mr Osborne - nicknamed «Oik» because he was deemed not to be quite posh enough - allegedly encouraged media reports about the details of a private conversation at a dinner in Corfu, during which, it is claimed, Peter Mandelson poured poison into people's ears about Gordon Brown.

«The only time the president and I talked about Russia was in 2013, when he simply asked me in passing what it was like to live there in the context of a dinner conversation,» he wrote to the committee, according to The Times.

And I would engage them in conversation with a set of scripted questions and [they would] be questions [that] simulated, like, thought, like «What did you eat for dinner last night?»

Essentially a compendium of short essays, the book reads like an intriguing dinner party conversation among great minds in science — some of whom, of course, talk right past each other.