Sentences with phrase «into ordinary conversations»

Not exact matches

Allusion is actually quite common; in ordinary speech and conversation, we can not do without it, for if everything mentioned were immediately glossed, a single page of text would stretch into hundreds of pages and assertion would be forever deferred.

He's had a superstar year and has catapulted an otherwise largely ordinary side into the promotion conversation.

It's tempting to lubricate some ordinary conversations with the glug of wine pouring into a glass, or an ill - timed Sambuca shot.

But back in ordinary life, I wouldn't announce it to the world, it would just strike too many controversial conversations about ethics and then I'll have to get into the whole explanation, as long as I know..

But unlike his sober, stentorian - voiced father, the eventual George VI (father of Queen Elizabeth II) is hopelessly tongue - tied when it comes to public speaking, the victim of an acute stammer that turns ordinary conversation into a humiliating succession of false starts and too - long pauses.

Today, aided by the power of digital media, thousands of artists, activists, and ordinary citizens across the world — and the internet — routinely reverse the power of advertising, transforming ads and logos into a global conversation between corporation and consumer.

Turning the books and bookcase itself into a both an artistic, organizational tool and a surefire conversation starter, this piece has been handcrafted out of wood and makes the formerly ordinary activity of arranging one's paper books into one of preciousness and great forethought — something that can be hard to come by nowadays in our overly busy world.