Sentences with phrase «people at cocktail parties»

I'm proud to tell people at cocktail parties that I am an attorney.

His quintessentially American evocations of people at cocktail parties or the beach and his landscapes of Maine took off in Europe, especially after the collector Charles Saatchi showed off his Katzes in his private museum in London a decade ago.

Not exact matches

At cocktail parties, many of us find ourselves looking over the shoulder of the person in front of us to see who's around.

«The market is going up some more... People are still not talking at cocktail parties about the hot stocks,» he said.

We may reconstruct the adjectives and phrases used to describe him both at the cocktail parties of the Corinthian elite (if the latter was aware of him at all) and in the pubs where his petit - bourgeois clientele would gather: «fundamentalist,» «simplistic,» «compulsive - neurotic,» «asking too much of sensible people,» «never listening to the other side of an argument,» «perhaps a little crazy» — in sum, some thing of a disagreeable fanatic.

A crowd of people from across rural Queensland and New South Wales gathered at the Outback to Oyster Cocktail Party last night.

The station's programming is aimed at the kind of person who is apt to liken a golf course to a cathedral; to opine, straight - faced, «Golf isn't a game, it's a way of life» — the kind of person, in short, whom I would crawl out a bathroom window to escape at a cocktail party.

Another time, at a cocktail party, he whispered to me: «The» 20/20 ′ people want to know how they can pass us and get in the Top 10.

For example, recognizing and finding a friend at a cocktail party full of people will be much easier if you not only see the person but also hear him / her.

My personal vote for the best idea in smart clothes is a sensor that tracks the identities of the people standing around me at a cocktail party and automatically — but silently — alerts me if I happen to be standing next to someone I've met before, not to mention telling me the person's name.

«If you're at a cocktail party and you tell people human genes are patented, almost everyone will say that can't be right.»

DEVICES like Amazon's Echo and Google Home can usually deal with requests from a lone person, but like us they struggle in situations such as a noisy cocktail party, where several people are speaking at once.

Have you ever noticed people you meet at cocktail parties often begin conversations with the ever - popular question, «What do you do?»

Most recently I ordered Chloe Wine Collection's custom wine labels for a cocktail party I hosted at my apartment that people LOVED!

People are going to get suspicious when Lauren suddenly switches to decaf, suddenly stops drinking at cocktail parties, and starts going to the obgyn... a lot.

Also more interesting in concept is «A Golightly Gathering,» a reunion of various people who were involved in the film's famous party sequence; while there are some amusing remembrances of working with Hepburn, George Peppard, and director Blake Edwards, at 20 minutes it goes on too long, and the cocktail party conceit of the gathering is a bit too precious.

At a Toronto cocktail party, Dench, who is 82, admitted to me that all she had to do was find the universality in people who survive as their friends die around them; she has lost seven people close to her in the past year, including her brother Peter.

is the most common question those of us at Automobile Magazine receive at cocktail parties once people learn what we do for a living.

My dad likes to tell this story at cocktail parties, as a cautionary tale to young people.

It did seem like one big cocktail party, at least for people benefiting from the boom.

If you decide you want the B&B entirely for yourself, you'll have 10 rooms at your disposal, all with private bathrooms (sleeps maximum 21 persons), our beautiful living - room and our relaxing patio where you can bring everyone together for a welcome cocktail -, dinner party or lunch (outsourced catering).

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The goal of a film like «Cold Rush» is the viewer will be at a cocktail party a couple days later, someone will mention «bio-prospecting,» and the person will say, «Oh, I just saw a funny film about that — I got that it's about making money off bacteria in the Arctic, but how exactly does that work?»

I was at a cocktail party talking to a «normal» person, explaining what I do.

At a cocktail party, the who and how you approach people are very important.

A lot of people just don't enjoy the typical networking events: stiff conversation at a cocktail party or a formal luncheon or dinner.

«No one ever says to a Crown attorney at a cocktail party: «How can you prosecute those people?»

Some of my favorite stories to tell at cocktail parties (OK, I don't attend cocktail parties, but bear with me) have to do with famous people who use life insurance loans to fund their dream or protect their dream from dying.

Life insurance isn't one of those topics you typically hear people talking about at cocktail parties or while making conversation with the guy or gal next to you on the treadmill at the gym.

At a cocktail party you're going to meet some new people and probably reconnect with others you haven't seen in some period of time.

It is a digital cocktail party that allows you to communicate to more than one person at a time.

Tickets to an anticipated sold - out Elton John concert and a custom - designed diamond necklace complete with a 20 - person diamond - themed cocktail party were auctioned at the 2013 Gala, along with hotel, registration and limo packages for the Royal LePage National Sales Conference in Toronto in September 2014.

Whether I'm showing a unit, or at a cocktail party when people ask me what I do, I inevitably get the question «how many units do you own»?

«People often think they can't have a cocktail party for 30 at home because they don't have enough chairs, but in fact, the fewer seats you have, the more your guests will mingle.

It's interior design overlap at its best as a cosy flat that looks like a cocktail bar is currently on the market and just the thing for 24 - hour party people...