Sentences with phrase «relatives at family parties»

There's the awkward nagging smalltalk from relatives at family parties, the endless commercials involving fireside proposals, the falling on the ice skating rink with no one to help you up as you lie there freezing cold and motionless just waiting, hoping...... We've been there.

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With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.
«This was definitely meant to be,» Williams said later, as a seemingly endless procession of old friends, curious passersby and dubious newfound relatives crashed his family's all - day draft party at the Comfort Suites.
We're first introduced to Moll (Jessie Buckley), a timid - looking young woman who understandably gets annoyed when her birthday partyat which the guests appear to include no friends of her own, just relatives and family acquaintances — gets hijacked by someone else's surprise pregnancy announcement.
At family gatherings and other parties, our not - quite - sober relatives often come up with a «fantastic» idea: why not pour a little bit of beer into the dog's dish?
Sculpture, still the poor relative at the family dinner party, deserves more than a cursory glance.
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