Sentences with phrase «friends for drinks became»

Dining out or meeting friends for drinks became a natural choice for an affordable indulgence.»

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Stick around instead for a hilarious and moving scene where the Monster becomes friends with a blind hermit who teaches him how to smoke and drink.

As to alcoholics, he says: «The broad interpretation that best fits the evidence is that heavy drinkers are people for whom drinking has become a central activity in their way of life... for the long - term heavy drinker, life has come to center on drinking — life [that] is pervaded by a preoccupation with drinking, shaped and driven by the quest for drink, drinking situations, and drinking friends» (p. 100).

For the purpose of this book, an alcoholic is defined as a person who has become dependent on the drug alcohol, consequently drinking more alcohol than the socially accepted norm for his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and jFor the purpose of this book, an alcoholic is defined as a person who has become dependent on the drug alcohol, consequently drinking more alcohol than the socially accepted norm for his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and jfor his culture; his excessive drinking damages his health and his relation to his family, friends and job.

I have friends who like a dance and a drink, others who prefer a gallery, and one who's become a psychoanalyst, so occasionally I tell her things hoping to get help for free.

Associating with and becoming friends with peers who drink is a strong risk factor for the development of problem drinking.

This was one of those weekends where I really appreciated my friends for being so wonderful — from grabbing drinks with a co-worker who's become like family at Big Star, getting together for dinner with Kelly, Kira and Danielle (and they're lovely husbands) to finally getting back into my yoga groove on Sunday with Kira at Core Power — it had been far too long.

While his son's body is flown back from Iraq, a mild - mannered PX clerk (Steve Carell) goes looking for two friends he hasn't seen since the days of the Vietnam War to invite them to the funeral; one (Laurence Fishburne) has become a small - town pastor, while the other (Bryan Cranston) has kept up his hard - drinking, shit - talking ways into grizzled middle age.

In addition to opening his bar only every Friday for much of its existence, he allows patrons to make their own drinks, recites Shakespeare and Beckett, greets the very occasional new patrons of his bar as close friends, sings, paints, kayaks in New York Harbor, and tells captivating stories of life in wartime Red Hook among the mobsters and war heroes who frequented what was once his grandfather's bar before it became his father's, and then his.

The festival became a cherished ritual: friends would religiously mark their calendars for the first Saturday after the Fourth of July, reuniting for martinis, gumbo, and dancing, a sundown screening of their cinebursts of creativity, then ever more spirited drinking and dancing well into the night.