Sentences with phrase «of excellent conversation»

I want (and deserve) a gentleman who is capable of excellent conversation, available for going out and playing...

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News coverage is an excellent conversation starter and a way to get your foot in the door in the minds of your prospects.
The summit sessions and informal conversations provided an excellent opportunity to hear from a variety of corporate executives on why they are increasing their use of contingent labor, especially through the use of online talent marketplaces like Upwork.
Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.
We had an excellent conversation about the need for buyer personas, and the role they play as a foundational component of a B2B marketing strategy.
It is excellent to the extent that precisely because it is guided by interest in God for God's own sake, it honors the inevitable pluralism of understandings of God by serious engagement in conversation with differing understandings.
But omissions and biases notwithstanding, general readers and scholars alike will find Muller's anthology an excellent place to begin the necessary conversation on the meaning of conservatism in the modern world.
The proper us of question and answer can help the student to make distinctions on his own, and the art of conversation is an excellent tool for eliminating misconceptions based on category mistakes.
In the end, the conversation was an excellent airing of the issues involved and gives a taste of the sorts of conflicts that are likely to spring up around online communities of all sorts.
This unplugged, wide - ranging conversation goes deep into all aspects of the ketogenic diet and complementary lifestyle practices, helps sort out the confusion and misinformation surrounding keto, and gives you an excellent understanding of how the Keto Reset approach will help you succeed.
Consider the last time you were truly absorbed in something — an excellent book, a vexing problem, a heated conversation, a tender moment — to the exclusion of all else.
Stories about when you fainted in front of George Clooney and held a tarantula in Oz will make for excellent conversation starters when you get to meet your date in person, so save them for that moment!
It was an excellent and unexpected conversation, and restored a lot of my faith in people after some previous episodes.
A watch can be a statement of wealth and an excellent conversation starter.
The playwright / screenwriter / director also often employs a really clever technique of the interrupted conversation - «Glengarry Glen Ross» is an excellent example of characters interfering with their counterparts» lines in a deliberate (but, when done well, perfectly natural) way.
It's a premise rife with thematic potential, which becomes impossible to miss once Binoche's character decamps for the Alps to rehearse with her assistant (an admittedly excellent Kristen Stewart) and the two begin spelling out every hint of meaning through conversation, effectively stripping the whole film of subtext, scene by overwritten scene.
She's been a part of the conversation since January, and I don't see her possibly not being listed among the nominees in this category for her excellent performance as a sex surrogate.
In his excellent commentary track with All the Real Girls star / co-writer Paul Schneider, Green implores us to «test the limits» of our DVD player by listening for the embedded conversations that, partially in hommage to Robert Altman, add layers to several sequences.
Whit Stillman's work is ceaselessly talky, so the clarity with which his loquacious heroes comes through is crucial to the success of the film, and thankfully Criterion has done an excellent job piping in these conversations loud and clear.
Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosOF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth MosOF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Mosof mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.
Before last week I'd never heard of John Ruskin and then his name came up in a conversation regarding Mike Leigh's excellent Mr. Turner and here we are, only a few days later, with a trailer for a movie about Ruskin and his marriage to his young wife, the titular Effie Gray.
Momentum is achieved through a series of intersecting interactions, excellent characterizations, and good young character actors — sometimes it's fun just to listen and observe their conversations and observations.
Most of the supporting players in «Grand Budapest Hotel» make too brief an impression to figure here, but newcomer Tony Revolori (technically the film's lead, but likely to be pushed to supporting to give Fiennes more of a leg - up) was an excellent find, and certainly deserves to be in any conversation here.
Producer and casting director Marci Liroff got into an awkward Twitter conversation the other week, and it served as an excellent reminder that some people leave their manners out of social media.
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Excellent analysis of where a student feels they are at, and a foundation for a conversation.
Helen Parkinson, assistant principal of Ashton - on - Mersey School — which leads an alliance of 11 schools — highlights how being a professional or subject mentor is excellent CPD for staff: «Coaching and mentoring skills and experience in things like handling difficult conversations are transferable to other areas of people's work.
Our conversations did not end with verbal reflection, but rather she provided a space to develop a genuine community of learners where we could learn from each other and have the difficult conversations that often impede a unifying understanding about the purpose of education and how to provide an excellent education for all students.
Dr. Paul Manna, a recognized scholar of education and author of the new Wallace Foundation Report, Developing Excellent School Principals to Advance Teaching and Learning: Considerations for State Policy, joins the conversation to discuss policy levers available to states to promote effective principals.
«I think this creates an excellent forum for that conversation - because we can look across not only our district, but our state, our country, and get a sense of where those standards are going and how we need to modify our curriculum and modify our assessments.»
This appropriation is an excellent start, but it shouldn't be the end of the conversation.
Each time I attend a Community Conversation, I am reminded that the barriers to a stronger, more tolerant world are not insurmountable — and that sharing the views of enlightened thought leaders is an excellent way to move us all forward.»
At Ed Trust, we want to continue the conversation about recruiting and retaining excellent teachers of color.
AIR's model for instructional coaching focuses on establishing a broadly shared definition of excellent teaching, grounded in professional teaching standards which provide the anchor for coaching conversations and a vision for improved student outcomes.
In «Reunion,» Doober says it would be excellent to «find your kid self» and force a conversation with that shadow of your past, and Jenny asks him if he would warn himself about the future.
The conversation unfolds on levels that are excellent for laypeople outside publishing to hear but fully viable for us bookish folks who follow the predictions and pratfalls of the digital dynamic with excruciating, incremental care.
Heater knows his stuff and is an excellent interviewer so all of these are RECOMMENDED if you like good conversation!
The Catification Lounge, the creation of Kate Benjamin, «Miss Moderncat,» and «Cat Daddy» Jackson Galaxy, proved to be an excellent venue for conversations both serious and light (the latter being aided immeasurably by Jill Delzer owner of Ally McPets).
People seem to be more inclined to talk if you have a dog with you and the topic of dogs is an excellent icebreaker for conversation starters.
Not only is it an excellent tool to illustrate the problems of breed specific legislation and breed identification, but its also a great conversation starter.
Mentioning anything about the weather is a good way to spark a conversation, but the English also have an excellent sense of humour.
Guests enjoy a perfect combination of privacy, relaxation, excellent food, good wine and conversation with fellow guests from around the world, plus some exhilarating but comfortable adventure — in a stunning beautiful natural environment.
Relaxed despite his heavy travel schedule and put in excellent mood by the show's stylish, yet stimulating ambiance, a cheerful Molyneux engaged in an intriguing conversation with the host, sharing his thoughts on the future of interactive entertainment.
Kickstarter proved to be an excellent platform for the development team to have direct conversation with the potential players and backers, getting an idea of what features they may be interested in and shaping the development around their suggestions.
On Being Black is an excellent multilayered and highly nuanced remix of an ongoing conversation in contemporary art about identity, power and transformation.
This dense, excellent collection of his writings and interviews is divided into four sections: «From China to the International,» «From «Exile» to the Global,» «Global Cities and Art,» and «Interviews, Dialogues, Conversations
Paul's excellent Stanford video lectures and supporting materials on Cybernetics and the entailment structures of Conversation Theory will be most helpful to practitioners and students alike.
Excellent post - but in light of my reading of Sherky prompted by one of your earlier posts, I question whether it's possible for the conversations to be actively «organised into a more manageable form.»
BONUS READING: At Hyperallergic Weekend, don't miss Thomas Micchelli's excellent conversation with Jason Andrew, co-founder and director of Bushwick's Norte Maar: «Many people have asked me if there is a defining characteristic among the artists in Bushwick.
'' Online communication only enhances face - to - face, it doesn't replace from Conversations Matter Kathy Sierra of the excellent Creating Passionate Users blog today posts about why face - to - face discussions will never be replaced by online ones.
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