Sentences with phrase «of conversations with strangers»

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We offer dire warnings to kids not to speak to strangers, but the ability to strike up a polite conversation with everyone from the bus driver to your new boss is actually a hallmark of maturity, according to Lythcott - Haims.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

My family and close friends would certainly make up a large piece of it, but I hope it would also include my mentors and mentees, team colleagues, fellow board members and even strangers who were touched by my articles or speeches, shared a cross-country plane ride conversation with me or somehow crossed paths with me along the way.

Networking will teach them how to forge powerful connections, initiate conversations with strangers and act with the confidence of a leader.

Get outside of your normal routine by learning a new hobby, reading a different book genre, or striking up a conversation with a complete stranger (exercise judgment on this one).

You can even make a habit of practicing with strangers you'll probably never see again, since research suggests that making conversation with fellow commuters leaves people happier.

But being able to walk into a room of strangers, carry yourself with composure, have conversations that are meaningful and walk out with contacts is a skill that takes practice.

You just jumped into the middle of a conversation with an off - topic and strange comment / question.

Jesus eats a breakfast of fish with them and has a strange conversation with Peter.

In a strange cut by the editor, a conversation with philosopher Philip Kitchner is inserted in the middle of this set of reflections.

And while this sort of praying is not quite as strange as speaking in tongues, when it is carried over into a real - world conversation with another human being, it sounds completely bizarre.

Instead of receiving self - improvement nudges or engaging in conversation with strangers, I watched the founders fret (a lot) over technical glitches with the web streaming, talk about how hard they had worked to pull the service off, and try to sell me Sunday Assembly swag.

Later, as we walked and cartwheeled back to our hotel room, Anna told me that the woman had approached us regarding marriage prospects for her grandsons, not a usual topic of conversation with total strangers.

«The way of Jesus can not be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.»

You've had longer conversations with strangers in the comment section of your blog than you've had with your own mother.

Jesus took the initiative and began conversation with this Samaritan stranger at Jacob's well at the foot of Mount Gerizim.

In a moving passage that took me completely off guard, Dreher recounts a conversation with some strangers in a bar about the unlikelihood of terrorist attacks in Dallas.

Many married men and women today are looking at text messaging and social media direct messages with a similar sense of false security that encourages them to participate in emotional and sexual conversations with co-workers, neighbors, former partners and even strangers.

*** Just like we remember our first conversations woven with a complete stranger; the initial brush on our lips which we'll always call our first kiss; the pre-dawn slant of warm sunlight after entire months of chilly cold; and the piercing scents of a fruit orchard ripe with the smells of summer — this is how I remember the first dish I ever cooked.

Beautiful, amazing, odd, strange, fascinating and sometimes sad objects; a whole lot of interesting people; tired bones (from walking and hefting all day) and tired eyes (from looking at so much stuff); a lot of quick decision making and haggling (neither of which are skills I excel at); and what I love most of all - an entire day of uninterrupted conversation, laughter, food, and stories with a dear friend.

Nothing says super fun conversation with a random stranger or co-worker than an explanation of how your nipple shield didn't work and the fact that you don't have $ 200 to pay for another lactation consultant visit.

The intricacies of dating — striking up a conversation with a stranger or trying to gauge another person's interest based on body language or facial expressions, for example — aren't specific to people with autism, but they're more difficult for people with the condition to navigate.

Conversations with near - strangers quickly dive into protected caverns of feeling, values, and dreams as we touch one another's emotional selves and wrestle unanswered questions such as the meaning of life.

Even though I feel a crushing anxiety whenever the phone rings, or when I cross the street to avoid small talk with a stranger, and even though I'm the one huddled in a corner having a meaningful conversation with someone while everyone else is mingling at a party, I can still confidently give a talk to a room full of students like I've been doing it all my life.

Mid conversation with a vegan, you will find that they use strange looking phrases like «I have some cashews soaking to use for pizza tonight»; which should sound like quite a string of strange words to the average omnivore.

With this multitude of interactions from our most intimate relationships with our spouse or partner to meeting a stranger on the street, chances are that sometimes a simple conversation can go terribly wrong and -LSB-With this multitude of interactions from our most intimate relationships with our spouse or partner to meeting a stranger on the street, chances are that sometimes a simple conversation can go terribly wrong and -LSB-with our spouse or partner to meeting a stranger on the street, chances are that sometimes a simple conversation can go terribly wrong and -LSB-...]

If you are afraid of talking to strangers, start a conversation with a stranger.

Radius Bank allows you to manage all of your banking needs online — so you don't have to deal with the hassle of waiting in lines or having confusing conversations with a stranger.

This year is a bit different, maybe because I am getting older or something - BUT the whole night scene: dancing, singing and putting my hands around strangers as we swag back and forth singing Auld Lang Sync just doesn't sound like my kind of thing, instead this year I am keeping things a bit low key and having a nice fancy dinner with friends, followed by great conversation and wine, of course - as we countdown with Ryan Seacrest and Carson Daly on TV.

Indeed, all of these self - produced songs are directly inspired by strange conversations with real kids.You'll get a sense of Jack's lyrical genius and unusual sensibilities in songs like «A Little Cheese,» «I Lost My Lunch,» and even the relentlessly bouncy track, «No Name.»

It's one of few opportunities you get in life to meet new people every week, and have a one - on - one conversation with a complete stranger.

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In the same way you'd steer clear of certain subjects in the context of a dinner - party conversation with a stranger, there are certain topics you'll want to avoid when creating your dating profile.

I asked some of the world's top dating experts just how to spark conversations with strangers in ways that really work.

Not only do you experience great connections with people, you get to learn and practice cool ways of talking to strangers and how to start a conversation.

Take a group of friends (it's always easier to start a conversation with strangers that way), grab a drink, and explore the area like you've never done before.

Sometimes I lose interest in juggling online conversations with strangers and yet can't stand the thought of leaving my dog for another dead - end coffee date.

Some people may think of speed dating as a formal event where you have to stay in your seat and have the same conversation over and over again with a bunch of strangers.

Sometimes even the idea of sitting across from a stranger and trying to come up with witty conversation is just too daunting.

Perhaps it's worth it for daters to consider striking up a conversation with a stranger in order to stand out from the dating crowd, instead of posting the perfect photos on Instagram.

In the meantime, we get some nice awkward pauses, a few callbacks to and expansions of the recurring jokes, and some random moments, like the reverend's strange Scripture passage, the deceased dressed as a Roman centurion in a photo, and Howard's horribly inappropriate conversation with the widow.

Still, with Whedon leaving the Avengers franchise right before all sorts of creative new recruits are introduced to fight Thanos — including Doctor Strange, Ant - Man, and Black Panther — does he harbor any twinge of regret that he won't ever get to script the first Avengers conversation between, say, Tony Stark and Star - Lord?

The film begins with a gag about Jasmine Francis (Cate Blanchett) who had been unloading intimate details of her life story to a complete stranger who had mistaken Jasmine's talking to herself as an invitation for a conversation.

A late - night conversation as Jiro waits for a date with his bride - to - be ends with a mysterious stranger telling him that Japan will burn along with technological ally Germany — and we know that it does burn, not just in the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also in the devastation of Allied incendiary bombs dropped on a civilian population that had, for centuries, built their homes from paper and wood.

Now, Faults, the directorial debut of Riley Stearns, which premiered at SXSW in 2014, seems to be in conversation with the similarly themed 1982 Ted Kotcheff film Split Image (parodied in the bizarro Comedy Central series «Strangers With Candy»), wherein concerned parents have paid a guru to «reprogram» their child for reintegration into sociwith the similarly themed 1982 Ted Kotcheff film Split Image (parodied in the bizarro Comedy Central series «Strangers With Candy»), wherein concerned parents have paid a guru to «reprogram» their child for reintegration into sociWith Candy»), wherein concerned parents have paid a guru to «reprogram» their child for reintegration into society.

Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.

It's harder to practice critical conversations with family and friends (which is why so many of us don't post this on Facebook) than with strangers.

But I came to teaching to continue the conversation of ideas with people who were so passionate about them, that they appear to list to one side, fix their eyeglasses with a Band - Aid, wear strange trousers, and exhibit a relationship to their subject that to an untrained eye is identical to the person talking things over with themselves on a subway.

I was recently told by an opinionated stranger, who was happy ignoring the etiquette of conversation whilst queuing, that outdoor education should certainly be part of a child's education, but it was not something that schools should be involved with; the time and effort of educators should be spent on the academic attainment of students, not on getting students up hills.

But how as an author do you start those types of conversations... especially with strangers?