Sentences with phrase «good seatmate»

Not exact matches

Your pick of seatmate or dinner date doesn't matter one bit (well, within reason; don't pick Hitler), says career strategist Ian Christie of the Bold Career Project.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

The skill and immediacy with which the poor guy changed the subject revealed to me that he'd probably sat next to a well - meaning evangelist in the past, the kind to whom «gospel» means salvation from hell and «evangelizing» means convincing your seatmate to make a decision for Christ before the plane lands.

Faced with sitting between my two disgusted seatmates with a bag of warm vomit on my lap, I chose the only marginally better option: I rang the call button and handed a (understanding, but visibly repulsed) flight attendant the bag of sick.

Blanchett's Jasmine enters the movie arrestingly: a fidgety, elbowy presence on a cross-country flight, chatting the ear off a seatmate about sex and the better things in life.

Not only is it incredibly hydrating, it also seems to function pretty well as a deterrent for chatty seatmates.

You wouldn't want your seatmate blowing stogie smoke in your face, and that steaming Whopper with onion isn't any better.