As I come out with a stack of napkins and some plates, their conversation quiets and dies down, and we all eat. |
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The wily old fox of cricket had his guests enthralled by witty conversation, which ran late into the night. |
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And Congressman Rangel, if you could hold on just a second, I want to bring the conversation here at home. |
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The flow of our conversation is interrupted by her friends streaming past at the end of a school day. |
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Jacqui was too busy rearranging her skirts after her untimely fall to notice our stiff conversation. |
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Throughout the conversation, Blondel expressed a deep pessimism about the future. |
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Steve, who lives in Fleet, informed an air hostess of what had been said but other passengers had already overheard the conversation. |
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The stroll looks innocuously aimless enough, random conversation and desultory gaits all firmly in place. |
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While buffers can help mitigate the impact of jitter and wander, they also serve to increase one-way latency, which may stint a conversation. |
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Now, on the constitutional point you raised there, Larry, on the queen abdicating, well, it's a frequent topic of conversation. |
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It also means sitting down with someone, someone who is not abhorred or hated, to have a conversation. |
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Just as I gather up my courage to start a conversation with my neighbor, impeccably dressed waiters appear and begin serving dinner. |
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And I've never gone out to dinner with my dad when he hasn't gotten into an in-depth conversation with the waitperson. |
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At ten pm, the volume of local Greek dialect increases and friendly conversation abounds. |
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In the course of a long conversation, the governor's longtime chief strategist agreed that Davis had abrogated our agreement. |
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The conversation at dinner tonight might have shed some light on why I am so absent-minded. |
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It turns out that speakers of these languages use absolute pitch every day, but in conversation, rather than in the concert hall. |
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It's really fascinating, and I feel it's what turns a blog from a series of chats into an absorbing internal narrative, or conversation. |
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Who entertained whom and what the food and conversation were like were matters of absorbing interest. |
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They freeze, lapse into a wide-eyed silence, then warily continue their conversation. |
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A lilting, deeply accented voice spoke quietly, yet it cut right through the buzz of conversation around them. |
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He began to speak in a deeply accented, yet flawless English, and the last bits of conversation died from the room. |
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Sandra answered, clipping her compact shut and turning to engross herself in the conversation with Isabelle. |
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So I decided to let the intense clamour of conversation wash over me and enjoy it. |
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For the rest of the journey Mary allowed the conversation to wash over her and she finally felt normal. |
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Other times, I'll just sit there, letting the conversation wash over me, convinced that I have nothing useful or interesting to add. |
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In fact ask any management specialist, from any sector, to exclude every word of jargon from a conversation, and there is likely to be silence. |
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A fan of lively debate and intelligent conversation, his rapier wit is razor sharp, and is certainly on top form today. |
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And it has already become water-cooler conversation everywhere I've gone in the last two days. |
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It rapidly became a New York Times bestseller, sparking incessant water-cooler conversation and wide coverage on the nation's business pages. |
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He grinned to himself as he realized that the conversation in the back of his van sounded like an espionage drama on the radio. |
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Ensure that topics of conversation are kept to literary or academic subjects. |
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I waved out the window to my friends, dreading the conversation I was going to have with my parents when I got home. |
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In many ways, this being on the same wavelength makes for easy and fluent conversation. |
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Fogarty shoots off into a rapid-fire imaginary conversation between an agency executive and a newspaper ad sales person. |
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My interest quickly wavered from the conversation at hand and with a soft yawn I let my gaze fall back onto the printed words of the book. |
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The conversation, as was to be expected with such a group, was light and flippant, with many jokes and quips flipping back and forth. |
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Some are wealthily dressed, expressing their opinions in conversation with other people. |
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They probably all drive People Carriers and conversation is solely about one-upmanship, acquisitive materialism and diets. |
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His sudden voice had jilted me from the conversation Duhze and I were having. |
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I have a fondness for little old guys like these fellows and often try to find a way to strike up a conversation. |
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The webinar mentioned in our earlier post will take place today, and be followed by a conversation on this Motion-powered site. |
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They all pay their money and are immediately blindfolded, whereupon they are asked to make polite conversation with the person next to them. |
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I just realised it is in fact the same conversation, just the second stage of it. |
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The conversation had a Kafkaesque quality to it, which is to say, it smacked of police-state mentality and measures. |
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He walked a little ahead of her to his car, and conversation stopped for a moment. |
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The wine list, which was priced a bit more reasonably than the food, helped to keep the conversation flowing. |
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So read books or listen to books or watch TV or listen to music or walk around in silence or have a conversation with some real live people. |
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The conversation continued for a few more seconds, and then the birds started wheeling away. |
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As usual, the conversation at the Sunday lunch table ranged over a variety of disparate subjects. |
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Don't sign anything, keep your mouth shut, and remember that we never had this conversation. |
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After the meal, they had sat in the front room and the conversation had ranged over a wide variety of topics. |
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Their benefit is that we can carry on a normal conversation or hear range commands but still preserve our hearing. |
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Ally felt herself smiling, even though their entire conversation had been so utterly juvenile. |
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He recaptures a conversation from another night out on the randan, this time with Mullan. |
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Actually the conversation was slightly more involved than that, but that was how it basically went. |
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Such was his good nature and sheer agreeableness that even after only a brief conversation with him the day was enhanced. |
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At several points during our conversation, I simply couldn't hear over the deafening thump of my own pulse. |
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Long after the conversation is over, this is what jumps out as the most surprising. |
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The conversation became jovial through the stories they shared about being in a state of intoxication. |
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Jazz is definitely a dialogue, but at its best Afrobeat is a total conversation. |
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I want to talk a little more about the journal since that's the occasion for this conversation. |
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But there was one person with whom I was able to hold an amicable and fruitful conversation. |
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Other diners are dotted around, whispering in conversation in reverence to the food. |
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By the end of lunch, the conversation had put back on its veneer reflection of gaiety and jolliness. |
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Some of you may wonder how locals manage to work the edible kernel from its black shell within seconds, while holding a conversation. |
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He tells the funniest jokes and stories and he ends up dominating every conversation. |
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A faint air of hopelessness overcomes McWhorter as our conversation winds down. |
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He gave them all a puzzled look but could tell they were in a serious conversation, so he didn't push it. |
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People may choose to wander around in webspace and leave a conversation at any time while others may choose to stay. |
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Then again, after a conversation about wetas, mice, rats and other rodents this morning with co-workers I don't want to move back into a house for a while. |
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For Mr. Okeke-Diagne, being sapiosexual means intellectual conversation. |
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Wilson, who spoke to The Daily Beast from a cab on his way back up to Harlem, is curt and cold in conversation. |
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I have also so far not spoken to the children on the phone as my husband reassures me that they are fine and a possible phone conversation may unsettle them. |
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Miriam recalls her last conversation with her brother being about him trying to help members of his group escape the crackdown. |
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I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent. |
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I'd have loved to have been a fly on the wall for that conversation. |
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To accuse him of doing so is certainly an effective way to end a conversation. |
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Sara rapped on my desk loudly and interrupted our conversation. |
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There is also literally a conversation about contemporary practices in actuarial mathematics. |
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He did, and Paterno allegedly informed Curley, the athletic director, of the conversation. |
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Just finished up a long phone conversation with Bill and Skippy, my friends from Kansas City who are agonizing over whether to make the big leap of moving here to New York. |
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A friend of mine, the mother of two teens and the CFO of a Chinese education company, told me as much in a recent conversation. |
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If State of affairs succeeds, it could change the conversation around Heigl. |
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For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day. |
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Their conversation has the uncertain, improvised aimlessness of real life, and their relationship is not developed and complicated in any traditionally scripted sense. |
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He knew the drugs Paul had given him would addle his brain, but surely not to the extent he couldn't follow a conversation with his little brother. |
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My wife and I made abortive attempts at ordinary conversation. |
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A successful trend-maker might be able to steer a conversation, but virality remains extremely difficult to predict. |
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The characterizations reported on today do not reflect the conversation that we heard. |
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We began the conversation as Amado had suggested, talking about Africa in general and Sudan in particular. |
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Not that those choices would have made water-cooler conversation in Dubai. |
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Race walking is as, if not even more, arduous than many other categories, yet exponents are seldom acknowledged in the same athletic conversation. |
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And in his conversation he displayed a quick, agile and fair mind. |
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Paul has altered the national conversation once before, with his filibuster on drones. |
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The concept is that the formalism of past summits has made meaningful conversation difficult. |
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And so, we had a collegial conversation in the last snowfall of the season. |
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The examination morphed into a far-reaching conversation between Bryan and Darrow on scriptural interpretation. |
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Based on our conversation, he decided to do more research and apply to at least one small selective college. |
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Gaffle raised a hand to Pintom's ear and whispered a short conversation. |
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In conversation, her ideas emerge at a roiling boil that often takes on a momentum of its own. |
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Initial conversation gives you the impression that this kid's just too nice to make it in the music business, this racket will chew him up and spit him out. |
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By listening in on their conversation, we get to know the narrator, Asa Baker-Rouse, and the filmmaker, Bianca Giaever. |
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When she tries to join a conversation between two men at dinner she is chastened for her assertiveness. |
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He claimed that any serious conversation about poverty must include the issue of automobile access. |
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Unfortunately, it has become a game of deceit and deception, not the back-and-forth conversation that a great match should be. |
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As I settled into the backseat of the cozy sedan, Frank struck up conversation. |
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He becomes especially earnest when the conversation turns to his role as The baker in Into the Woods. |
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Abed filled his mouth with a piece of the baklava, I needed to get our conversation going. |
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Sarah looked up from her conversation with Jake with a wan smile. |
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Well, this conversation comes from a hostile point of view where I have to answer for my belief system. |
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But travel outside the beltway, and the conversation about impeachment is far from abstract. |
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Kingston said the comment was part of a broader conversation about the benefits of chores for children that was misconstrued. |
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Mark was the coder of the group, and also really the driving force behind a lot of the brainstorming and conversation. |
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The Christchurch quake, he said, was a popular conversation topic with his young kindergarten students. |
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Not too long ago, you simply had to have cable television in order to be part of the national popular culture conversation. |
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Even though we were running late, Scott was jovial and candid in his conversation. |
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He lets her stare deep into his eyes, clasp his hands for meaningful conversation, caress his face, and even lean in for a kiss. |
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Victor talked about the FDNY academy and I talked about Colombia, and the conversation turned, as it always does, to chevy. |
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A conversation with Mary Higgins Clark seems like a catchup with an absent aunt, or a proverbial long lost friend. |
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Sammy is a tenacious journalist who's given to peppering her conversation with Yiddishisms. |
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Let me backtrack for a moment and pick up our previous conversation. |
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He tried to steer the conversation away from his recent problems. |
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Expletives were deleted from the transcript of their conversation. |
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Following months of conversation on the Internet, the man was ready to participate in active radicalization. |
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God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. |
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Beyond paying her a few charming compliments and amusing her with gay conversation, had he done anything at all to try and gain her affection? |
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When you have been waited on by armless hands, and have had a short conversation with a cat, nothing can surprise you much. |
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A Babbitt met a Bromide on the avenue one day. They held a conversation in their own peculiar way. |
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He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness. |
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The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach and affable in conversation. |
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Almost by definition, a conversation requires both parties to accept each other's viewpoints to some extent. |
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The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion. |
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The sole object of his chattiness at table was to prevent a more intimate conversation between herself and her companion. |
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He had two subjects of conversation, the shame and come-down of being a tramp, and the best way of getting a free meal. |
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At some point in the conversation my name came up, and I readily agreed to their proposition. |
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Communifake is the act of pretending to initiate and maintain a fake conversation on your mobile phone around other people. |
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Ermine never let any one be condescending to her, and conducted the conversation with her usual graceful good breeding. |
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The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof. |
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Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children. |
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I hope nobody was eavesdropping on our conversation last night, since it got so personal. |
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We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children. |
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Trust a femme-fan to start a stream-of-consciousness conversation every time. |
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She makes pleasant conversation, but she's kind of a flake when it comes time for action. |
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In determining whether the male is ready for conversation, the woman should not hesitate to employ the delicate techniques of foretalk. |
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As she thus spoke, the entrance of the servants with dinner cut off all conversation but that of a general nature. |
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There was a moment's pause. The Princess broke in with some casual remark and once more the conversation became general. |
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In effect, the analogy of writing that lies at the core of graphism has subtly colonized the conversation. |
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She's such a holy roller that she steers every conversation around to the joys of religion. |
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He sat down, and lighted a cigarette, casting about the while for an innocuous topic of conversation. |
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From time to time, Ace will, in a jerksome way, monotonize the conversation with witticisms too humorous to mention. |
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Children gathered at the kiddie table and adults enjoyed conversation and, of course, everyone enjoyed the turkey dinner. |
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Without L cuts, a conversation between two people can feel like a tennis match. |
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After five minutes' conversation with me the old folks would penetrate the deception like a dose of salts. |
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She looked so lip-smacking good that he knew even a brief conversation would be a challenge. |
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Children might have waited on tables for the family, but they could not have participated in the conversation. |
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Further, it is quite easy in a longer conversation to distinguish differences in vocabulary and pronunciation of some Urdu phonemes. |
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The last piece of evidence offered was a conversation between Fawkes and Wintour, who had been kept in adjacent cells. |
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The two men apparently thought they had been speaking in private, but their conversation was intercepted by a government spy. |
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The Club met every Monday evening for supper and conversation and continued into the early hours of Tuesday morning. |
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Polonius, spying on the conversation from behind a tapestry, makes a noise. |
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Unable to see or hear the ghost herself, Gertrude takes Hamlet's conversation with it as further evidence of madness. |
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A foppish courtier, Osric, interrupts the conversation to deliver the fencing challenge to Hamlet. |
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Mercutio, in friendly conversation, mentions Romeo's phallus, suggesting traces of homoeroticism. |
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After this they have a conversation in which they declare eternal love to each other. |
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After the King withdrew, Johnson shewed himself highly pleased with his Majesty's conversation and gracious behaviour. |
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After a short meeting, Johnson was impressed both with the King himself and with their conversation. |
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My house has lost Levet, a man who took interest in everything, and therefore ready at conversation. |
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Regular conversation with Byron had an invigorating effect on Shelley's output of poetry. |
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She was obsessively timid outside the family circle to the point of turning her back on her partners in conversation without saying a word. |
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About two weeks later Waters called Gilmour, their first conversation in two years, and the next day the latter agreed. |
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We had a conversation the very first day I met her where she said, 'I know the movies can't be the books. |
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Alice observes this transaction and, after a perplexing conversation with the frog, lets herself into the house. |
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I didn't speak much Mexican, but I savvied a lot more than I could speak and picked the word banditos out of their conversation. |
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When in conversation with the Queen, the practice is to initially address her as Your Majesty and thereafter as Ma'am. |
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The country's telephone service, however, is another matter. Getting a dial tone and holding a conversation free of static are minor miracles. |
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I reported the conversation to senior levels of the state department and I was told to stand aside and they would handle it. |
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More importantly, a major void is apparent with the absence of how their practices act in conversation with prior feminist artwork and concepts. |
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I'm gonna phone her, and she's going to be embarrassed about this conversation, this is live and I don't care. |
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He was known to talk to himself, a habit that began during his childhood when he would smile in rapt conversation with invisible companions. |
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Other barriers that contribute to miscommunication would be the type of words chosen in conversation. |
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Like his Nixon, Mr. Langella is an agile interviewee, taking the conversation toward anything but the specifics of his nonacting life. |
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In certain areas, it is not uncommon for speakers each to use a different language within the same conversation. |
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We might assume that people usually switch codes while having any sorts of conversation. |
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But there are several factors behind switching codes in a single conversation. |
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In this section, segments that are switched from the primary language of the conversation are shown in red. |
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In the ohnosecond that followed, I realized my log of the conversation was lost. |
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It's called peacocking. Gets the chicks to notice me. Gives 'em a conversation piece. |
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After the conversation, he sent her a Real Madrid jersey with his signature on it. |
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His soul was but a black gulf into which poured the Phlegethontic cataract of their conversation. |
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A telephone is a communication tool that interfaces between two people engaged in conversation at one level. |
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It is thus a dialogue within a dialogue, after the manner of Plato, but the conversation extends to enormous length. |
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In most cases, what remains is one half of the conversation, either the question or the answer. |
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Once they got into conversation, Steven found out that five Antwerp merchants were traveling to Spain on this ship. |
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The language consists of unique ways to address multiple people in one conversation. |
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Diphthongs often form when separate vowels are run together in rapid speech during a conversation. |
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This variation shows up frequently in newspapers, magazines and political speeches as well as in daily conversation. |
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Residents engage in addas, or leisurely chats, that often take the form of freestyle intellectual conversation. |
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In recent years, the problems of the tropical rain forests have become an almost daily topic of conversation. |
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Every time I get into a conversation with this ravishing girl, I want it to last forever. |
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She certainly meant well and was not a fool, but nobody can maintain that she was wise, nor entertaining in conversation. |
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I tried to reinject some sanity to the conversation, but it was too late and conspiracy theory reigned for the rest of the night. |
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Fifteen years later he retired, and by virtue of his conversation and qualities, became a leader in society. |
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I know a girl who's fun to roll around with, but can't have a conversation. |
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So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers. |
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If, actually your conversation was supportive rather than a slagfest, the only thing you have to be ashamed of is your indiscretion. |
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She knows a smattering of Greek, but not enough to carry on a conversation. |
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I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse. |
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To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest. |
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Totally sux. I'd even settle for an in-depth conversation about the weather right now. I'm not used to being alone like this. |
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At the tail end of summer. The tail end of a lecture. The tail end of a conversation. |
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The steady tick of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation. |
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Her conversation is full of choccy bics, smack the botty, toothypegs, lovely choccy and Mr. Poddle. |
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Dearly as he loved to talk, he could not enjoy nor shine in a conversation when he thought himself unsuitably dressed. |
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That's how you upshift a conversation so you can navigate the great political divide in a way that insights, not incites. |
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This 'who's on first' conversation continued, both of us getting more and more frustrated than the other, until it hit me. |
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The idea for a pageant came from a boozy conversation with girlfriends. |
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They were all engaged in a lively conversation, and the cardiologist was talking across my body with animated gestures to the allergist. |
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When it went to answerphone, their expletive-ridden conversation was automatically recorded. |
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Jedi Master Bob Vitas had spent a long Thursday engaging fellow knights in conversation and found himself peckish. |
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This was, alter all, a culture that gave us jeux d'esprit and treatises on the art of conversation. |
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This is an edited and condensed transcript of our conversation. |
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There has been talk about should we convene a conversation on race. |
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In one such conversation, Bob Kinkle, the former Narragansett Quality Control chief, convinced me to tour the abandoned facility. |
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An astrocyte listens in to the chemical conversation between neurons, soaking up neurotransmitters such as glutamate, the researchers showed. |
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She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation. |
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This proposition, made within 15 minutes of conversation between the two, appalled the air hostess but she chose to ignore it given the reputation of the player. |
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She not unfrequently stopped at the Parsonage, and had a few minutes' conversation with Charlotte, but was scarcely ever prevailed upon to get out. |
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I moved the conversation away. It was coming too close for comfort. |
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Colonel Walton, who had striven to check the conversation at moments when he became conscious of its tenor, now gladly engaged his guest on other and more legitimate topics. |
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Unheeding the conductor's warning glare, Mr. Devine straphung, smiling, his lips forming soundless phrases as though he enjoyed a delightful, inaudible conversation. |
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You say your father is courteous and makes friendly conversation. Well, if you only knew his true feelings, you would spazz out! He was so angry with your letter! |
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Through engaging conversation and quotes from letters, juvenilia, and novels, she shares about her childhood, siblings, and the loves and losses that shaped her life. |
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Our brunchtime conversation was an animated exchange of such ideas. |
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The communication between the medium and the human solicitants, described by both the medium and Pu, was conducted through informal yet polite conversation. |
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But apart from the story of the havildar, my own syce, a hillman who attends my pony, has actually seen two ghosts, with one of whom he held a long conversation. |
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There was nothing pretentious or stuffy about him, and I remember that he was so informal that he even insisted on continuing our conversation while he went to the BBC karzy. |
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Preferring to do his thinking and designing in the morning, but was happy to have company while at work, liking to be read to or join in conversation. |
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Above all else, Asquith thrived on company and conversation. |
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These letters are closer to Holmes's conversation, and cast light upon the style he adopted in judicial opinions, which were often designed to read aloud. |
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Towards the end of 2015, Bishop Greg Thompson of the Diocese of Newcastle has called for conversation and has said that he opposes discrimination against LGBT people. |
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Tim Harris, and he supported allowing LGBT clergy if they agreed to be celibate, but, at the same time, he expressed that he is open to conversation about change. |
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Archbishop Aspinall has also stated that he does not take an official position on the ordination of gay clergy, preferring instead to encourage respectful conversation. |
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I've put myself down for the new Spanish conversation course. |
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The serving Sister pursed up her lips to remind him of the cloistral rule, almost as if she wanted to prevent any conversation between him and the nun. |
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This fence, this gap, this indeterminate betweenhood, is the discursive condition of semiotics, as the semiotic is the condition of all conversation. |
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In English, for example, phrases such as would dare to, may be able to or should have to are sometimes used in conversation and are grammatically correct. |
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The substrate may survive as a second language for informal conversation. |
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People may still understand words they were not exposed to before using cues such as tone, gestures, the topic of discussion and the social context of the conversation. |
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And it was not to bee modelled or directed by the paterne of regular and remisse friendship, wherein so many precautions of a long and preallable conversation are required. |
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When the priest declares that the goddess is tired of conversation with mortals, the chariot returns and is washed, together with the curtains, in a secret lake. |
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In the 16th century, an Imperial envoy in Suleiman's court Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq reported having had a conversation with two Goths in Constantinople. |
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For when he got free of his official cares he looked to your conversation for the precepts of the sages, that he might make himself a worthy equal to the great men of old. |
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In chapter 21, the slave trade is briefly mentioned as a failed topic of conversation upon the return of Sir Thomas Bertram to his home and family. |
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Verbal lore is not just any conversation, but words and phrases conforming to a traditional configuration recognized by both the speaker and the audience. |
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That same year, the British press published bugged recordings of a passionate private 1989 telephone conversation between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. |
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Exports also include the distribution of information that can be sent in the form of an email, an email attachment, a fax or can be shared during a telephone conversation. |
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Black contends that the conversation between M and Bond allows Fleming to discuss the decline of Britain, with the defections and the Profumo Affair of 1963 as a backdrop. |
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Fairy tales, jokes, and humorous stories designed to make a point in a conversation, and the exemplum a priest would insert in a sermon belong into this tradition. |
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A Ministry of Defence operative in London had a short telex conversation with Governor Hunt's telex operator, who confirmed that Argentines were on the island and in control. |
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The last conversation with her started with me blubbering out something about needing to go back to make some money... what a bastardish thing to say. |
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Prescott said this was an inaccurate report of a private conversation. |
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For my part, I cannot recall any conversation with him on the subject until very near the end of his life, when he spoke of them to me, and tried unsuccessfully to find them. |
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Hong Kong Cantonese is used in daily conversation and Traditional Chinese used to be the only writing system in Hong Kong before the 1997 handover. |
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I venture to say that in a fifteen-minute conversation he would commit more horrible crimes against the king's English than even that new stable-boy of yours. |
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Because the bathing process took so long, conversation was necessary. |
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The inopportune arrival of the bus cut short the interesting conversation. |
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The dinner conversation was becoming inconducive to smooth digestion. |
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The disgraceful conduct of the Returning Officer for the City of London Election has been the subject of animadversive conversation in our own particular circle. |
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Often the difference is attributable to the presence of pride or the absence of humility. So, you're having a conversation and you are trying to be humblesome. |
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I'll holla back at you later, he wrote, ending our conversation. |
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Naturally they were curious, the businessmen and cadre and assorted visitors, who offered up cigarettes and tea before making their first hedgy attempts at conversation. |
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Too early an enquiry results in forcing the greetee into a conversation, but waiting too long results in a verbal collision or in missing your target. |
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I suppose what he is worried about is epitomized by a conversation that I had ten years ago with the Executive Vice President of a utility that was going nuclear. |
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It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his. |
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Look at 21st-century Britons, tongue-tied in conversation, groping for some PC euphemism in what was once the most iconically free-spoken country on earth. |
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The double-handed conversation had started to resemble a vaudeville act. |
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It is difficult to carry on a conversation with so many distractions. |
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During this conversation Abrahamian invited Jahangiri to Armenia and called for the development of all-out ties between Tehran and Yerevan, he said. |
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Yet, there may be one issue today that once again reminds you that although you're an Air sign and love conversation, connecting with your emotions is the key. |
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The size of the book and length of the articles make it an excellent work for professional development, wardroom discussion, and thought-provoking conversation. |
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You have not forgotten our telephone conversation of yestreen, Jeeves? |
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