And yet other times, in the spur of the conversational moment, I'm lost for the right words. |
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Joe's conversational exchanges with the convalescent Pip are hilariously circumlocutory. |
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In this year he sits down to compose 23 farewell letters to his friends, each set into conversational iambic hexameter. |
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As a society, we are becoming less adept at talking face-to-face and conversational skills are suffering. |
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She sings with a conversational freedom and impeccable, colloquial diction. |
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I'd say that conversational implicatures should be those that are generated in roughly Gricean fashion, and that not all of these are cancelable. |
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Her ear for colloquial phrases and conversational interplay is equally impressive. |
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His social skills improved so that he became more communicative, conversational and animated. |
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The conversational style of the interviews meant that few, if any, conceptually complex terms were used. |
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The most conflicted and pessimistic families were least likely to move to a new conversational level. |
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More to the point, make it hard for the reality that that theory contingently represents to set the conversational agenda. |
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Her attitude and manner was much more conversational and friendly this time. |
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Having that information beforehand will make you more confident and conversational in your approach. |
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He isn't as verbal or as sharp as Howard, but has a more casual, conversational approach. |
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In a conversational style, Dale Carnegie offers practical advice and techniques on how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. |
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Instant messaging is even more conversational and speed is even more important, so proper English has almost vanished. |
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His conversational style, emphasised by his use of italics and capitalisation, has attracted generations of readers. |
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My supervisor, instead of being very rigid, now was more conversational, kinder, warmer. |
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I'm trying to be a lot more conversational than dictatorial, and this informality leads to these kind of slips. |
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Every once in a while there is a page of text with extremely conversational, seemingly unedited commentary. |
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He's strong but he's conversational, and there aren't too many people that have that. |
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Off stage, Rob Campbell is one of the most relaxed and conversational people you'll ever meet. |
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He said it in a flat, almost conversational way, devoid of tone or expression. |
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Though her words were conversational and casual, her tone was smooth and deadly. |
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Start building your aerobic base by exercising at a conversational pace for an hour, two days a week. |
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To my considerable surprise, they formed an instant, eager bond, and went into a tight conversational huddle for the next 45 minutes or so. |
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Another mile and a half brought him to the next settlement, and being short of conversational gambits, he again asked what this was called. |
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She ties things together in ways that haven't yet become conversational fodder. |
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After reading the article, I decided to go further and be friendly towards them and welcome any form of conversational topic. |
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They also receive training in popular culture and current events to improve their conversational skills. |
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It transpired that my conversational companion and I both had firm ideas as to the character of each of our future funerals. |
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At first, I thought this might be a conversational gambit, a feigned interest. |
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Again, all my mates have read it and I haven't, which can lead to an embarrassing conversational hiatus in the pub. |
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His book adopts a folksy, conversational style, but doesn't really contain any new revelations. |
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Identify your conversational style, and then find out how to get the gab going with your crush! |
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He is more generous with the conversational ebb and flow than he needs to be. |
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Recent studies of the pragmatics of politeness have drawn on conversational data. |
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The style is often lightly conversational, yet it is a gauntly powerful book. |
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Chown's delivery is punchy, conversational and well-stocked with reader-friendly analogies keeping galactic concepts at an everyday level. |
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The voice purred in his head, clear as though someone had leant down to his ear and spoken in the normal tone of conversational speech. |
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It's very engaged, it's very responsible, it's very dialogic and yet also lively in a conversational way. |
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Jane was no beauty, always delving into some novel of gross sentimentality, and her conversational skills were disgustingly average. |
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But at normal conversational speed its ghastly sequence of four diphthongized long vowels sounds something like ah-ee-yay-ee-yee-yay-ee. |
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Like Socrates, Russell saw philosophy as spoken and conversational, rather than written and discursive. |
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Fluent signing produces a conversational rate comparable to that of speech. |
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The text is delivered in a conversational manner, with frequent asides directed to the audience. |
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I can speak basic conversational Indonesian and I'm starting to learn Balinese. |
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As children gain mastery over language skills, they become more sophisticated in their conversational abilities. |
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The conversational style essential to success eludes most of us, or is parodied in a false mateyness, but it seemed to come naturally to him. |
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The approach combines a constrained-based semantics with a general mechanism of conversational implicature. |
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The fans also have their say and again the attitudes are conversational rather than bellicose and confrontational. |
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There was none of the awkwardness of fresh acquaintance, no conversational false starts or miscues. |
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Usually a poem begins in a conversational manner and modulates into intense lyricism. |
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A rich variety of proverbs exist in the Sierra Leonean languages, and witty exchanges of proverbs are a conversational tradition. |
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In her speedy, skittery conversational style, Karen, 27, says that giving everything of herself didn't leave much. |
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We return to our hotel to slug whiskey and create conversational doodles in the private bar. |
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The tone of your letter can be folksy and conversational or urgent and earnest. |
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In the rapid-fire flow of conversational speech, words are not fully articulated. |
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Many stay-at-home dads complain about the conversational snubs and weird stares they get at playgrounds and school yards. |
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The posters round here tend to respond better to more detailed conversational openers than to one-liner posts. |
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My store of conversational openers seems thoroughly inadequate to the task. |
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The large memory boxes are ideal for use as a conversational piece on a coffee table or an eye-catching centerpiece. |
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The conversational subject matter becomes very odd indeed, or not what you'd expect. |
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The subtleties and variances of language that can only come through in conversational speech are often lost. |
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There are surtitles, of course, but in the quick, conversational repartee of the Prologue, the machine has trouble keeping up. |
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I love making no sense in my conversational patterns sometimes. |
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Actors interpreting Shakespeare's iambic pentameter invent their own characteristic mixture of the formal and conversational to produce what we hear onstage. |
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I tend to think of myself as a fairly well-read and knowledgeable fellow, but Lex puts me to shame, with his vast library and conversational skills. |
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She couldn't wait to tell the usual gang gathered for dinner at Mrs. J's, waiting impatiently until the ritual conversational preliminaries eventually played out. |
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He has an easy conversational style and moves smoothly through a presentation that is so detailed there is very little left to question at the end. |
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This study offers a pragmatic account of verbal irony, arguing that verbal irony can be best treated as a special type of conversational implicature. |
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Human understanding comes in accepting this ongoing, unconcluded conversational array of riches as presenting a variety of different ways of understanding self and world. |
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The flippancy of this conversational gambit does not impress her. |
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In a folksy, conversational two-page letter dated Sept.15, Mr. Libby assured Ms. Miller that he had wanted her to testify about their conversations all along. |
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Like a person sitting in the car park outside the gym, knowing they've got to go in and get exercising, I am perpetually a conversational sluggard. |
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He also gave it an incredibly small number of conversational gambits. |
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This Vanuatu tribesman could only make hand motions and repeat words in his foreign language, though everyone living on Efate speaks at least some conversational English. |
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I wheeled out my fail-safe conversational gambit which is to ask Mel to take me through the difference between creme fraiche, fromage frais and sour cream. |
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The Captain displays an uncanny ability to sweat and smoulder simultaneously, and boasts a command of German that goes above and beyond the conversational. |
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Different people in different situations call for different conversational styles, and I have them all lined up in neat little boxes, ready to go. |
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The heart of hitRECord is about making media in a conversational, positive way. |
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Did you look at the talk news landscape and view it as too bombastic, and decide to take a more measured, conversational approach? |
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Hopefully these anecdotes will offer up culinary and conversational inspiration this Thanksgiving. |
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Though conversational and often witty, his meandering phrases become increasingly unpredictable as they develop. |
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Thinking about Patients is written in an engaging and conversational style and is an antidote to the increasingly leaden approach of the evidence based medicine enthusiasts. |
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I wheeled out my failsafe conversational gambit which is to ask Mel to take me through the difference between creme fraiche, fromage frais and sour cream. |
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Then mother comes back, using a spare, friendly, and conversational style. |
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She even taught me simple conversational Finnish, which I used with glee. |
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So this was a rare opportunity to test their conversational skills. |
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Louise, who was cooking, dished up a supreme bangers and mash with onion and red wine gravy, and I had prepared The Films of Patrick Swayze as my conversational masterclass. |
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Maybe this is because the air is clearing on what these media are good for, and with people online more and more they've become quicker and more conversational. |
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I can't usefully compare future possibilities to current capabilities, but I've noticed patterns in the conversational gambits used in such discussions. |
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You've given me an interesting conversational gambit when that happens. |
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His voice had struck a conversational tone that grated on her nerves. |
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In essayistic fashion, Atkins tends to speak in a conversational voice, with no attempt to convince or cajole the reader. |
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Grice argued that we implicate more than what we say, in accordance with maxims and conventions governing conversational implicature. |
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It is, they say, more genuine and less strident, more conversational and less stagey. |
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According to Grize all conversational activity should be seen as argumentation. |
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He wrote in an easy, conversational tone about books, food, friends, and current events. |
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The machine is available with the Centroid T400S CNC control with conversational, G-code and M-code programming. |
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The style of singing, whilst harmonically strong, is conversational, fragmented and fragile, with overlapping and repeating vocal lines. |
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There were conversational boundaries in our family and we respected them. |
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Tan is fluent in English, Cantonese and Bahasa Malaysia, and speaks conversational Mandarin. |
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He writes prose with a conversational tone suited for a bus driver talking with a lone passenger on an hourslong excursion. |
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Almost all of his more substantive works, whether in verse or prose, are preceded by prefaces of one sort or another, which are models of his caustic yet conversational tone. |
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Here Gomori starts with a conversational tone, which continues with playfulness and ends either in an axiom or in a philosophical statement, written with a light pen. |
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He, of course, would say that this is conversational and demotic. |
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Part of his Request Stops tour, where fans dictate where he performs, it's exactly the sort of intimate venue that suits his relaxed, conversational style. |
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