Sentences with phrase «seatmate on»

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The experience is similar to having a boorish seatmate on a plane, who responds to your lack of interest by just talking louder.

The idea of checking credit scores against the detailed personal data in the Dunedin study came from a conversation Moffitt had with her seatmate on a plane about a decade ago.

About a year ago, my seatmate on a flight home from the East Coast and I started chatting.

She was my seatmate on the train.

Practice your elevator pitch on a seatmate on the plane.

Not exact matches

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

It's a busy travel season for me, so I read Christena Cleveland's book, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart, over a period of several months and mostly on airplanes, where I suspect my frantic underlining and audible «amens» may have made a few of my seatmates uncomfortable.

Even on an airplane, we should speak as if we're going to know that seatmate for the rest of our lives.

«That most recent crash in San Fran wasn't so bad, though,» my seatmate went on.

I've never asked my seatmate if he's secured his ticket to heaven, never quizzed the flight attendant on her Ten Commandments record.

As he spoke to his seatmate, he imagined the impact on Nepal's music scene if a star like Raju Pariyar came to Christ.

Brewer passed on the love to Lappin, her seatmate in the City Council and apparently also her gossip buddy, who was asked simply to elaborate on her experience outside of her eight years on the Council.

Faced with sitting between my two disgusted seatmates with a bag of warm vomit on my lap, I chose the only marginally better option: I rang the call button and handed a (understanding, but visibly repulsed) flight attendant the bag of sick.

From strange front row seatmates (the Delevingne sisters and Woody Harrelson our personal fave) to the great Zoolander walk - off at Valentino along with Lady Gaga's ever - changing locks, stars really left their mark on the City of Light.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL - Dec 16 - KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is introducing «Meet & Seat,» a service that lets passengers pick their seatmates in advance based on shared interests stated on their Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

Wiig has been the funniest person on the planet for a while, ruling SNL when she was on it, stealing scenes in movies like «Knocked Up,» and now, in this script she co-wrote with Annie Mumolo, who plays her airplane seatmate in the film, she's front - and - center in all of her awkward glory.

You may still hope that your seatmate speaks jive, or that your copilot worked harder on defense.

Blanchett's Jasmine enters the movie arrestingly: a fidgety, elbowy presence on a cross-country flight, chatting the ear off a seatmate about sex and the better things in life.

Rather than going out during intermissions, Taylor and I were content to stand near our seats speaking with our neighboring seatmates including Samuel Jackson, Sony Pictures Classics studio co-president, Michael Barker (whom Cate Blanchett thanked when she won), director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley, who won for adapting the screenplay for «12 Years a Slave,» producer Megan Ellison who financed «Her», all of the people associated with the movie «Nebraska,» including producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (whom you once famously mistook for David Lynch), and on and on.

AM: Do you ever find yourself sitting on an airplane and your seatmate has no idea what drag racing is?

While testing the Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight, I found that the GlowLight transformed spots I formerly considered e-reader dead zones into bona fide reading spaces, whether I was in bed reading in the dark, or sitting on a red - eye flight looking to unwind with a book without disturbing my seatmates with the too - bright overhead light.

On previous JetBlue flights where I selected Even More Space seats, I found that I was able to reach the aisle from my window seat without asking my seatmates to get up.

Last week I was returning home on a transcontinental flight and my seatmate noted that today's business class is yesterday's economy class.

On the other hand, if your seatmate could easily take up less space, try to start a polite conversation and mention that you'd appreciate some of the armrest.

«Fees will rise and fall with demand,» Sorensen says, and more airlines will look at selling annual subscriptions for services, similar to what United offers under its premier baggage plan.Social seating: Dutch airline KLM will roll out a «meet and seat» service this year that will let you choose seatmates based on Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.