Conversation Sentence Examples
Had he heard her conversation with Sarah?
I had no idea where this conversation was going.
Did he overhear her conversation with Connie?
This conversation is going nowhere you don't want it to go.
That served another purpose when the conversation turned to the possibility of another child.
The conversation was getting too personal.
She continued the conversation as if nothing had happened.
Conversation with Dulce was futile.
He was good at deceptive conversation – too good.
The conversation was over - or so she thought.
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Everyone relaxed and the conversation did a one-eighty.
She didn't mention the conversation or the money.
She was forbidden to engage the operator in any conversation and make the call as brief as possible.
That much she knew from a conversation she had overheard between two men in Ashley.
AdvertisementYou won't escape!--from that moment this conversation began, contrary to all the laws of logic and contrary to them because quite different subjects were talked about at one and the same time.
On the positive side, at that rate their conversation should be over by five minutes after nine.
I want someone who can contribute intelligent conversation, not grovel at my feet.
Was he actually avoiding conversation with his father?
It was difficult enough to stay with him - conversation was impossible.
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Their conversation was very simple and unimportant.
Finally she plunged into conversation with him.
The conversation turned on the contemporary gossip about those in power, in which most people see the chief interest of home politics.
I'm trying to have a conversation.
AdvertisementOh yes, he had overheard her conversation with Allen earlier and made his own deductions.
Would she have been able to hear his conversation behind a closed door?
He really was in their way, for he alone took no part in the conversation which again became general.
She met his regard with equal composer, in spite of the fact that the conversation was beginning to make her feel extremely uncomfortable.
With Mademoiselle Bourienne's help the princess had maintained the conversation very well, but at the very last moment, just when he rose, she was so tired of talking of what did not interest her, and her mind was so full of the question why she alone was granted so little happiness in life, that in a fit of absent-mindedness she sat still, her luminous eyes gazing fixedly before her, not noticing that he had risen.
After their conversation, she leaned back in the chair to get some rest.
Lisa hesitated, not wanting to pry and not sure if the conversation was supposed to end there.
He was always busy, and only at night allowed himself conversation--of which he was fond--and songs.
She wanted to talk to Bordeaux about it, but they were moving so fast that conversation was impossible.
I SEE NO SENSE IN "FAKING" CONVERSATION FOR THE SAKE OF TEACHING LANGUAGE.
At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre's marriage.
The conversation was resumed, and no longer in the unpleasantly hostile tone of Nicholas' last remark.
Conversation was copied verbatim.
If I refuse to talk to her, she spells into her own hand, and apparently carries on the liveliest conversation with herself.
Berg returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three officers became animated.
Their way of life and place of residence, their acquaintances and ties, Natasha's occupations, the children's upbringing, were all selected not merely with regard to Pierre's expressed wishes, but to what Natasha from the thoughts he expressed in conversation supposed his wishes to be.
By the end of their conversation, he understood why she laughed, too.
Gerald's gaze shifted briefly to Alex, who continued reading as if he hadn't heard their conversation.
Enough appears in the accounts by Miss Keller's teacher to show the process by which she reads the lips with her fingers, the process by which she was taught to speak, and by which, of course, she can listen to conversation now.
Worldly conversation at a moment when his soul is already prepared...
As is usually the case with people meeting after a prolonged separation, it was long before their conversation could settle on anything.
In the middle of a sober conversation begun by Ilagin about the year's harvest, Nicholas pointed to the red-spotted bitch.
She did not talk about her brother, diverting the conversation as soon as her aunt mentioned Andrew.
The conversation at supper was not about politics or societies, but turned on the subject Nicholas liked best--recollections of 1812.
I settled in my most comfortable chair and was ready for a long conversation.
He agreed to keep our conversation limited to the two of us and is willing to listen to you.
We'd decided a transcription of our conversation might sometime prove valuable.
I asked the others after I'd explained Brennan's conversation.
My wife refused to hear my recorded conversation until we gathered the group the following weekend.
He seldom offered an opinion, much less began a conversation.
While I remained eager to discuss the conversation, I couldn't disagree with Howie's logic.
Our nervous quintet settled in, ordered wine for the drinkers and waited for one of us to start the conversation.
Then the host caught her off guard when the conversation segued to the Psychic Tipster.
When I made a move to end the conversation, Brennan indicated there was more.
I was pleased our conversation at least ended on a positive note.
I knew this conversation deserved more thought on my part but it felt good taking some action, even if it might prove misguided.
I promised to check in from time to time as we finished our conversation.
Her questions evoked a quick lull in other conversation.
I listened until the silence below was interrupted by conversation and called loudly for the others to come up.
I ended the conversation wondering if it was the last time I'd speak to Daniel Brennan, a stand-up guy.
Howie stammered through his side of the conversation, terminating it by saying he'd call back.
I hadn't considered that having a house guest would severely limit our chances for candid conversation.
It was a long conversation with the old gentleman.
She seemed to understand and was off to walk Bumpus while I filled in Betsy on my conversation.
This is the most important conversation you'll ever have in your life.
She murmured her assent and that ended the conversation.
I read Martha's note to us and brought Betsy up to date on my conversation with Julie.
We finally ended the conversation.
It wasn't an invitation but I figured I owed my presence for what I'd learned so far and I couldn't wait to renew our conversation.
Instead I turned to the clerk who'd overheard enough of the conversation to look like his dog ate his cat.
I repeated Garcia's conversation over my shoulder.
I calmed down enough to explain the situation before ending the conversation.
Then he added, "I can't believe I'm having this conversation."
I think it's time we had a conversation.
Her conversation with Jenn made the world around her more concrete.
Dusty studied him a moment longer, recalling his conversation with the Watcher.
The conversation between her father and the man who should've killed her rattled around in her thoughts as she returned to the door.
Jule tried hard to follow the conversation.
It seemed too real, and he'd dwelled long on what he could remember of the conversation.
After her conversation with Xander, she couldn't help wondering if there was something more that made Darian seek her out or made her willing to humor him.
She didn't want to disappoint him or Damian and couldn't help but dread the conversation to come.
Once clear of town, Dean drove along at a brisk clip, trying without success to engage Martha in conversation.
Cynthia detailed the morning conversation.
Amid forced conversation, the group plodded their way through shrimp, chicken, and enchiladas to dessert—fried ice cream—but if the Deans thought this final outing would be a celebration, they were mistaken.
She was silent for a few moments and he thought the conversation was over.
Toward dawn, her conversation became fixed on the skeleton-man she'd discovered in the depths of the mine as if he too was a forever forgotten soul, equally immersed in lonely darkness.
It was an interesting conversation, albeit one-way.
Mind reader, Dean thought, remembering his conversation with Cynthia.
It was the most Fred O'Connor had ever said about his past, but the conversation was over.
End of conversation but it was nice to see things drifting back toward normal.
The conversation drifted to clothing—Cynthia's search for an appropriate wedding dress for the mother of the groom, and Jennifer's west coast dress shop.
That was the last of their conversation.
His manners, if formal, were refined; his conversation, when he felt himself at home, interesting and unaffected; and that he was capable alike of feeling and inspiring a very constant friendship there are many witnesses to show.
It proved more convenient to meet together and this gave opportunity for religious conversation and prayer.
When she referred to our conversation again, it was to ask, "Why did not Jesus go away, so that His enemies could not find Him?"
At first, the words, phrases and sentences which she used in expressing her thoughts were all reproductions of what we had used in conversation with her, and which her memory had unconsciously retained.
The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.
He waited for the first pause in the conversation, and then with a distressed face left the room to find Sonya.
In the drawing room the conversation was still going on.
And the conversation again turned on the war, on Bonaparte, and the generals and statesmen of the day.
He recognized her, guessed her feelings, saw that it was her debut, remembered her conversation at the window, and with an expression of pleasure on his face approached Countess Rostova.
Now that Molly had confessed more knowledge than any of us suspected, I felt obligated to tell Martha the full story before she learned it from overheard conversation or from Molly directly.
I hadn't a chance to fill Betsy in on my conversation Frank Vasapolli and was anxious to do so.
In the hall beyond, most of the murmured conversation was taking place as feet tromped around the house.
After embarrassed apologies, she seemed compelled to sit down and chat, as if idle conversation might be penance for the pilfered peach pie.
The Deans and Fred were torn between discussing Fitzgerald's blockbuster announcement and this conversation, which was becoming more interesting by the minute.
Dean wasn't anxious for Westlake to pursue the conversation and was relieved that the subject apparently held no interest for him.
He detailed his pre-dinner conversation with Paul Dawkins.
Maybe some scintillating conversation would break the ice.
They entered into deep conversation, discussing the pending bid item—a statue of a nymph waving a snake.
Joseph was ready to end the conversation but Dean was hoping for more fish in his creel.
He related his conversation with Joseph Dawkins.
Dean could barely wait for Cynthia to finish her conversation before he tossed out his inspiration concerning the skeleton.
Cynthia reached over to stroke Mrs. Lincoln as the cat began adding a steady purr to the conversation.
I would have called you in to talk with her but she cut the conversation short.
Cynthia related the conversation to Fred.
Dean took advantage of the time before the water fight to detail to Cynthia his conversation with the Dawkinses' stepmother.
Cynthia scrunched close to Dean's ear, trying to hear the conversation, and offered a word or two as well.
While the brief conversation was welcome, it left a party's-over void when it ended.
Her side of the conversation consisted of a short series of no's.
His interpretation of the conversation was decidedly different.
Dean was anxious to not hear about the Hutchins clan but in politeness let the conversation drift a while before he interrupted.
A lot of sounds-like, seems-like conversation followed until consensus settled on Mulligan.
The conversation turned back to the substitution of the skeleton and the theft of the small bone from their room.
Look, all this conversation is neatsy-keen, but I have to go to work.
Fred O'Connor was nearest and talked in subdued and nervous conversation, reaching for a paper and pencil to take down a number.
The Deans couldn't hear the conversation but assumed it was one more lady in waiting for the senior Prince Charming's favor.
Their conversation was interrupted by a tapping at the back door.
She continued to stare at Cynthia, but her conversation was directed at Dean.
Supper was picked-at leftovers, and neither felt like socializing with Bird Song's guests, who came and went on their own, without their usual afternoon goodies and conversation.
When conversation lagged, they apparently took the hint and retreated into Bird Song.
Dean reminded the voice on the other end of a three-way conversation that mother and girl hardly knew one another.
Alex replaced the receiver and leaned forward in his chair, rubbing his face as if to remove the conversation.
Physically, he was improving, but not in the conversation or response area.
Now that he had opened the conversation, she was ready to close it.
If she hadn't humiliated him that day as they stood before the mirror, maybe this conversation would never have been necessary.
That confidence had always been conveyed in conversation in the past.
Alex might not respond, or he might abruptly end the conversation, but he never dominated it.
Most of the times, conversation with Dr. Wynn was like talking to a robot.
Deidre had the sense of being late to a conversation.
Half-drunk by the time Rhyn explained things to her the day before, she'd come away from that conversation more baffled than she'd been when she fell out of the sky onto the beach.
If I find a cure, we'll revisit this conversation.
A knock at the door interrupted their conversation.
He suspected the conversation would go as well as his talk with Jade.
His conversation was short and curt before he tossed it.
The conversation with Gabriel turned over in her thoughts as she descended the stairs and left through the opened gate.
Instead of retorting, she said, That's not how I wanted this conversation to go.
He carried on a conversation for a few minutes, and she rested her head back, staring at the ceiling.
He.d never had a conversation with Rhyn where the two of them didn.t behave like testosterone-plagued teenagers.
The sounds of madness had subsided during their conversation.
The conversation was almost too serious for her muddled thoughts to follow.
She wondered if she had died, for she seemed able to see the conversation occurring from a dozen feet away, as if she were watching television instead of involved in it.
She tapped the ear piece as the conversation around picked up but the words faded in and out of translation.
Whether or not it translated or whether her voice was enough to alert him, all eyes fell to her before the conversation resumed.
He pushed her past him and joined in the conversation.
By the end of the conversation, she appeared relieved.
As for the remainder of their conversation … It was unreal.
She imagined the conversation was nothing short of torture for a warrior.
Kiera bowed her head as she'd seen the sisters do, trying hard not to look guilty like she'd overheard his conversation.
She debated what to do about the conversation she overheard.
She went to the battle game to play until A'Ran called, wondering what he'd say when she told him her news about his sisters and wondering just how safe it would be to talk about Ne'Rin's conversation with his father.
She stood, as if to tell him their conversation was over.
You can't start a conversation like that and leave!
She didn't have much time alone to mull their conversation or her troubled thoughts.
A'Ran approached her then, knowing his journey in the morning would delay the conversation they needed to have.
The second caller was a lady friend of Fred's by the sound of the muffled conversation.
Donnie had paid no attention to their conversation but having tired of his puzzle, picked up the notebook of letters and numbers and began to study it, turning the binder page by page.
A lengthy conversation was two grunts instead of one.
He summarized his conversation with Edith Shipton, adding his opinion.
The heavy thump of footsteps on the stairs interrupted their conversation.
Dean returned to Bird Song and brought Cynthia up to date on his conversation with Sheriff Weller over a quiet lunch of soup and grilled cheese.
Left with nothing else to do, Dean turned to Gladys Turnbull, more out of inn-keeper politeness than a desire to engage this strange woman in lengthy conversation.
Supper was pancakes and eggs, with conversation directed to the children, interrupted by confirming calls from ice climbers who would begin arriving on Thursday.
A phone call interrupted the conversation.
Cynthia finished her conversation and hung up the phone.
The room was a-chatter with foreign conversation, the words having nothing to do with national roots but the fanatic avocation of the gathered guests.
The front door was in continual motion with guests coming and going, amid laughter and boisterous conversation.
He related his conversation with the sheriff as she continued to work on the notebook.
Cynthia rose, and after a whispered conversation, Gladys left and Cynthia returned, a smile on her face.
She's met a gentleman, struck up a 'literary conversation,' as she tells it, and he's asked her to drinks and dinner.
So why the whispered conversation?
She and her husband related their conversation with Effie to Fred, how she had read the notebook, her comments regarding the gold coins, and their new, more respectful evaluation of Miss Effie Quincy.
Cynthia acknowledged her reluctant agreement with a deep sigh and no further conversation as Dean extinguished the light.
Before Dean could comment, the conversation ended as a commotion upstairs called for his attention.
He cut off the conversation with a hearty laugh.
He then highlighted the conversation, adding, He cut it off just when it was getting interesting.
Dean didn't tell Cynthia about his phone conversation with Whitehouse.
She did attempt to engage an uninterested climber in a conversation about her Great-aunt Annie being one of the founders of the Ouray Woman's Club, back in 1897 and how she helped form the Ouray Library, with her friend, the famous millionaire, of Hope Diamond fame, Tom Walsh.
As he was finishing his conversation, a loud sound came from the kitchen, followed by a sharp cry in a man's voice, and then laughter.
Dean could tell from the conversation she was speaking to her son Randy.
Not that she's made any sense the other times we've had a conversation.
He held his conversation to mundane chit-chat.
As he finished the conversation, Donald Ryland emerged from his room, looking as if his dog had died.
The conversation droned on for twenty minutes but Dean was never read his rights nor, surprisingly, was the interview recorded.
Dean itched to ask her how she was so sure it wasn't Mr. David Dean who dropped her hubby into space but she began to sob anew, making any further conversation impossible.
Dean knew Fred was chomping at the bit to dig into this caper, as he called it, but just to flip his switch a bit, Dean started the conversation with the old man's love life.
There was no conversation for a long minute.
He filled in his stepfather on his conversation with Weller as the two shared a macaroni dinner Fred had heated up.
Later, Dean heard the movement of the mortuary men coming for Edith—the hushed conversation and the bumping and thumping as the lifeless shell of this troubled woman was bagged and forever removed from Bird Song.
He filled Fred in on the details of Edith's visit and Cynthia's late night phone call and the abrupt end to the conversation.
The two women moved out of sight and sound and Dean agonized through the lengthy, halting conversation before rejoining them.
End of conversation, except Dean noticed Cynthia fold the papers and put them aside.
But Dean didn't let her finish before he interrupted, ending the conversation.
Jackson stood close enough to hear both sides of the conversation.
The conversation flowed freely and it was clear to Jackson that everyone was enjoying the evening.
He tinkered with the sound, making sure it was audible, yet would not interfere with conversation.
Jackson stood close enough to hear the conversation, and as soon as the moron committed to buy a watercolor; he approached Elisabeth, put his arms around her and said, Darling, the caterer needs to see you for a minute.
No way did he want this conversation overheard.
Jackson could hear both sides of the conversation.
How much of their conversation had he heard, and what did he think about finding her on the counter.
Had he heard their conversation?
If conversation is all you have in mind, why don't we go in and talk over a cup of coffee - maybe play a game or two with Katie.
He must have heard their conversation in the kitchen.
Alex never mentioned their conversation again, and she was careful not to be caught alone with him.
They played everything from cards to Clue, and the conversation was dominated by childhood memories shared between Alex and Katie.
It was simply idle conversation about everything from the weather to politics.
He found this entire conversation amusing.
Apparently their conversation in the barn had scared him off.
They had an entire week, so there was no need to rush into a conversation that might spoil everything.
Yet the conversation never turned comfortably toward children.
Lana smiled as she turned her attention from the conversation to the screens around her.
He'd toned down his side of the conversation out of respect for her, not expecting to find her worth talking to and pleased when she was.
The eight-hour ordeal to get there was worth the ten-minute conversation.
His conversation with Tim returned, and he stayed the urge to call Lana as he had when he was simply the Guardian.
I'd hoped to have this conversation with her in person, if at all.
Rhyn froze. The voice was Gabriel's, but the assassin's argument was unlike Gabe, who would know exactly what Rhyn would do after their conversation in Hell.
In fact, the whole conversation seemed … off.
Kris didn't answer, not wanting to think of how that conversation would go with the deity. He tested his power again. Kiki was right; they had none.
The uniformed guys downstairs had drawn lots to see who got stuck informing the next of kin, and since that time, speculation on the disappearance of Jeffrey Byrne had been the chief topic of conversation at the Parkside Police Department.
Dean agreed, and ended the conversation as dinner arrived.
Besides, it would give them meat for conversation.
Harrigan got up, still smiling, and went to the can, effectively cutting off further conversation.
Judge Adamson arrived and there followed more conversation at the bench and in the judge's chambers than in the courtroom.
Dean described his conversation with Randy Byrne and detailed his reason for visiting the Whitney Motel.
Nor had Burgess heard any noise or conversation from apartment C to indicate there was anyone there—much less more than one person.
His conversation with Cece Baldwin bothered him all the way back to Parkside.
He filled Fred in on his conversation with Cece Baldwin and tried to dismiss the entire case as a waste of time.
He used the age-old method of asking questions that needed answers until she swung into something akin to conversation.
There was no further conversation after they parked and hurried to the terminal.
As the meal progressed, their conversation remained open and relaxed.
She conveyed the information to son Randy, told him she loved him and, after ending the conversation, flopped back down on the bed, again covering her head, this time with a pillow.
The flight was on schedule and thankfully there was little time for forced conversation.
She smiled and responded with one-word answers while he did most of what little conversation occurred.
While Fred continued his conversation, Dean rummaged through the front hall closet until he located an atlas.
Dean tried to remember his earlier phone conversation with Mrs. Glass.
And there was no sign of Jeffrey Byrne, in person, in conversation or in spirit.
After the conversation was over he felt a pang of guilt for responding so emphatically.
The two men downed a second cup of coffee as Dean brought Fred up to date, relating his phone conversation with Cece Baldwin.
A conversation with the Rollins, Kansas campground gave little help.
He slumped down on the sofa in disgust, waiting for Randy to finish the conversation, his foot kicking open the bicycle magazine.
With his brain still churning from the phone conversation, it took sometime before his eyes focused on a penciled circle on one of the articles.
He repeated their subsequent conversation after he'd driven down and met her.
Weeks had passed since the two had spoken and the conversation was more social than business.
There was little conversation but at one point when they were exchanging the lead and Betty pedaled ahead, she called to him over her shoulder.
The entire trip took just over an hour with the driver, a volunteer from Amarillo, Texas who never stopping his constant drawl of friendly conversation, little of which Dean heard.
That would have made more sense, he said, lightening the conversation.
If I could get you pregnant, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
He ended the conversation by walking toward the porch.
What did you mean when you said that we wouldn't be having that conversation if you could get me pregnant?
She felt comfortable enough now to approach that intimate conversation.
Thinking about approaching the conversation and actually starting the conversation were two entirely different things.
Lori took the conversation elsewhere, but it remained at the back of Carmen's mind - even after she left and walked to her house.
The two men went down the hallway, still in conversation.
The rest of the meal was taken up with light conversation about the weather, the clinic, the animals... anything but their feelings about marriage.
The light conversation on the way home did little to settle her nerves.
With the air cleared, he dropped the subject and moved on to more pleasant conversation.
It was difficult to imagine this conversation was innocent, yet she must have faith in him.
Still, the telephone conversation was obviously private.
That was the last she heard of their conversation.
Katie was either convinced or saw the futility of the conversation, because she dropped the subject.
Conversation came to a total stop for a few minutes, and then Bill changed the subject.
There wasn't time for more conversation, even if they had been able to talk through the jarring gait.
He was courteous to her instead of affectionate, but they were talking — if simple questions and answers could be called conversation.
When was the last time they had an actual conversation?
That gnawing fear had made its way into the dining room and it was lurking around the edges of his conversation.
He'd have to figure out how to start a conversation she didn't want to have.
He listened to the hushed conversation that devolved into a hushed fight.
Memon did not spare him a glance but continued his conversation with the seated king.
It was frustrating, but the only thing she was accomplishing with this interrogation was making their conversation stiff and formal.
Their conversation was interrupted briefly while a man asked Lillie to dance.
His side of the conversation indicated there was an emergency.
Slipping into his chair, she continued their conversation.
At first it was a veritable honeymoon; conversation never flagged and either found in the other his soul's complement.
At the close of a conversation the originating subscriber again entered the call-wire and requested the operator to take down the connexion.
Conversation has been carried on over 2200 m.
He was a missionary to the Indians when the prince de Joinville, son of Louis Philippe, met him, and after some conversation asked him to sign a document abdicating his rights in favour of Louis Philippe, in return for which he, the dauphin (alias Eleazar Williams), was to receive the private inheritance which was his.
He derived much of his information from the letters of important personages, which he sometimes inserts, but much more from conversation with the eye-witnesses of events.
It is true that he looked upon general society as a waste of time and that he disliked poetry as "misrepresentation"; but he intensely enjoyed conversation, gave good dinners and delighted in music, in country sights and in making others happy.
Similarly the Greenland angekok is said to summon his torngak (which may be an ancestral ghost or an animal) by drumming; he is heard by the bystanders to carry on a conversation and obtain advice as to how to treat diseases, the prospects of good weather and other matters of importance.
Another, Daniel Neal, in 1720, found Boston conversation " as polite as in most of the cities and towns in England, many of their merchants having the advantage of a free conversation with travellers; so that a gentleman from London would almost think himself at home at Boston, when he observes the number of people, their houses, their furniture, their tables, their dress and conversation, which perhaps is as splendid and showy as that of the most considerable tradesmen in London."
His early friend and school companion, Adelmann, archdeacon of Liege, wrote to him letters of expostulation on the subject of this report in 1046 and 1048; and a bishop, Hugo of Langres, wrote (about 1049) a refutation of the views which he had himself heard Berengar express in conversation.
If we wish to know what Wagner means, we must fight our way through his drama to his music; and we must not expect to find that each phrase in the mouth of the actor corresponds word for note with the music. That sort of correspondence Wagner leaves to his imitators; and his views on " Leit-motifhunting," as expressed in his prose writings and conversation, are contemptuously tolerant.
During the latter period of his term of office he was on a very unsatisfactory footing with the young king George III., who gradually came to feel a kind of horror of the interminable persistency of his conversation, and whom he endeavoured to make use of as the mere puppet of the ministry.
He was free in his conversation, and his humour, of which he had a good deal, was apt to take the form of rather coarse jokes.
The company in Savannah met every Wednesday evening "in order to a free conversation, begun and ended with singing and prayer.
Lord Aberdeen made no secret of his dislike for the Turks, and openly expressed his disbelief in the reality of their reforms; and in January 1853 the tsar, in conversation with Sir Hamilton Seymour, the British ambassador at St Petersburg, spoke of the Ottoman Empire as " the Sick Man," and renewed the proposals for a partition made in 1844.
This change of policy on his part, frequently ascribed to the fascination of the king's conversation, arose in reality from the nature of his own convictions.
He retained his old university habit of taking long walks with a congenial companion, even in London, and although he cared but little for what is commonly known as society - the society of crowded rooms and fragments of sentences - he very much liked conversation.
C. Norton brought against the Whig premier for criminal conversation with his wife.
He then addressed himself to the French ministers, and had much earnest conversation, especially with Rouher, whom he found well inclined to the economical and commercial principles which he advocated.
He failed in both respects, and when Michael Faraday, who overheard a portion of his conversation with Davy on the subject, was subsequently more successful, he was inclined to assert the merit of priority, to which Faraday did not admit his claim.
The last is a philosophy of naturalism in the form of a conversation between seven learned men - a Jew, a Mahommedan, a Lutheran, a Zwinglian, a Roman Catholic, an Epicurean and a Theist.
When Matthew Arnold questioned his importance in conversation with Sainte-Beuve, the answer was, "He is important to us," and it was a true answer; but the limitation is obvious.
In the early autumn of 1751 La Mettrie, one of the king's parasites, and a man of much more talent than is generally allowed, horrified Voltaire by telling him that Frederick had in conversation applied to him (Voltaire) a proverb about "sucking the orange and flinging away its skin," and about the same time the dispute with Maupertuis, which had more than anything else to do with his exclusion from Prussia, came to a head.
He appears to have had no great sense of natural beauty, in which point he resembled his generation (though one remarkable story is told of his being deeply affected by Alpine scenery); and, except in his passion for the stage, he does not seem to have cared much for any of the arts, Conversation and literature were, again as in Johnson's case, the sole gods of his idolatry.
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It should be added that he was a very deep and original student of literature of every description, and that the comparatively few specimens which have been preserved of his conversation contain some of the finest fragments of modern appreciation of the great poets which we possess.
Bolingbroke's conversation, described by Lord Chesterfield as "such a flowing happiness of expression that even his most familiar conversations if taken down in writing would have borne the press without the least correction," his delightful companionship, his wit, good looks, and social qualities which charmed during his lifetime and made firm friendships with men of the most opposite character, can now only be faintly imagined.
On his travels he did not, we are told by the fourth earl, "greatly seek the conversation of other English young gentlemen on their travels," but rather that of their tutors, with whom he could converse on congenial topics.
Unrestrained conversation on the topics which most interested him - philosophy, politics, morals, religion - was at this time to be had in Holland with less danger and in greater abundance than in any other country in the world.
His conversation was with men of art and science, "the virtuosi of this place."
The feelings with which they were regarded are admirably shown by Cervantes (who shared them to the full) in his "Conversation of the Two Dogs."
What sort of conversation went on I certainly do not know.
But no human memory of a conversation reported on the 22nd of January 1567, could be so nearly "word perfect" as Crawford's must have been two years later.
Varchi says that "in his conversation he was pleasant, obliging to his intimates, the friend of virtuous persons."
The author relates a conversation between Otkar the Frank (Ogier the Dane) and the Lombard king Desiderius (Didier) on the walls of Pavia in view of Charlemagne's advancing army.
The Cena de le Ceneri, or Ash Wednesday conversation, devoted to an exposition of the Copernican theory, was printed in 1584.
Some of these bring the poet before us as either corresponding with, or engaged in controversial conversation with, his great friend.
Johnson, of whose various and often merely churlish remarks on Garrick and his doings many are scattered through the pages of Boswell, spoke warmly of the elegance and sprightliness of his friend's conversation, as well as of his liberality and kindness of heart; while to the great actor's art he paid the exquisite tribute of describing Garrick's sudden death as having " eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure."
The word 6 uXia from iatXEiv (buou, Eau)), meaning communion, intercourse, and especially interchange of thought and feeling by means of words (conversation), was early employed in classical Greek to denote the instruction which a philosopher gave to his pupils in familiar talk (Xenophon, Memorabilia, I.
After his third capture, in March 1841, he coolly boasted that he had lain under a sofa, and listened to a private conversation between the queen and Prince Albert.
There and the was a conversation between the queen and Sir Robert country.
When he cared to please, his manners and conversation were charming.
Though his voice was weak, his enunciation was distinct; the expression of his face cheerful; his manner and conversation.
Though Erasmus had passed nearly all his life in England, France and Germany, his conversation was Latin; and the language in which he talked about common things he wrote.
While his scientific work procured him an extraordinary reputation among his contemporaries, his private character and virtues, the charm of his social manners, his wit and powers of conversation, endeared him to a large circle of personal friends.
After some negotiations, an interview took place between him and Mr (afterwards Sir) Lepel Griffin, the diplomatic representative at Kabul of the Indian government, who described Abdur Rahman as a man of middle height, with an exceedingly intelligent face and frank and courteous manners, shrewd and able in conversation on the business in hand.
Plato describes how certain Egyptian priests, in a conversation with Solon, represented the island as a country larger than Asia Minor and Libya united, and situated just beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar).
When anyone was approved as a prophet and exhibited the "conversation of the Lord," no one was permitted to put him to the test or to criticize him.
He was well known in fashionable circles, where his witty conversation and his pleasant manners made him a favourite.
This was sometimes known as the parlour, colloquii locus, the monks having the privilege of conversation here.
On the whole, the interpretation which best suits all the passages is that extraneous discourses mean any extra-scientific dialectical discussions, oral or written, occurring in dialogues by Plato, or by Aristotle, or by anybody else, or in ordinary conversation, on any subject under the sun.
Dialectic is useful, for exercise, for conversation and for philosophical sciences, where by being critical it has a road to principles.
Political topics were studiously avoided in general conversation, and books or newspapers in which the most keen-scented press-censor could detect the least odour of political or religious free-thinking were strictly prohibited.
The " honest and sweet conversation " of the three daughters attracted him, and though his inclination led him to prefer the second he married the eldest, Jane, in 1505, not liking to put the affront upon her of passing her over in favour of her younger sister.
Being sworn, he detailed a confidential conversation he had had with the prisoner in the Tower.
He affirmed that, having himself admitted in the course of this conversation " that there were things which no parliament could do - e.g.
He was not only dull, but the cause of dulness in others, and even Alexander Carlyle confesses that in conversation his illustrious countryman was "stiff and pompous."
Withal there was no noise or confusion to mar the tranquillity of their intercourse; no one usurped more than his share of the conversation; the stillness of the place oppressed a stranger with a feeling of mysterious awe.
Faraday was not there at the time, but coming in afterwards he heard the conversation on the expected rotation of the wire.
His letters and his conversation were always full of whatever could awaken a healthy interest, and free from anything that might rouse illfeeling.
It is compiled out of an Adversaria, or commonplace book, in which he had jotted down everything of unusual interest that he heard in conversation or read in books, and it comprises notes on grammar, geometry, philosophy, history and almost every other branch of knowledge.
It is a popular disquisition on the heroes of the Trojan War in the form of a conversation between a Thracian vine-dresser on the shore of the Hellespont and a Phoenician merchant who derives his knowledge from the hero Protesilaus, Palamedes is exalted at the expense of Odysseus, and Homer's unfairness to him is attacked.
Probity is stamped on his features; his conversation savours of true piety and profound learning.
It is probable that Aesop did not commit his fables to writing; Aristophanes (Wasps, 1259) represents Philocleon as having learnt the "absurdities" of Aesop from conversation at banquets, and Socrates whiles away his time in prison by turning some of Aesop's fables "which he knew" into verse (Plato, Phaedo, 61 b).
It is thus a dialogue within a dialogue, after the manner of Plato, but a conversation of sufficient length to occupy several days (though represented as taking place in one) could not be conveyed in a style similar to the short conversations of Socrates.
Among the twenty-nine guests are Galen and Ulpian, but they are all probably fictitious personages, and the majority take no part in the conversation.
The conversation ranges from the dishes before the guests to literary matters of every description, including points of grammar and criticism; and they are expected to bring with them extracts from the poets, which are read aloud and discussed at table.
In writing and in conversation the geological expression " drift " is now usually understood to mean Glacial drift, including boulder clay and all the varieties of sand, gravel and clay deposits formed by the agency of ice sheets, glaciers and icebergs.
Eight years after Pascal's death appeared what purported to be his Pensees, and a preface by his nephew Perier gave the world to understand that these were fragments of a great projected apology for Christianity which the author had, in conversation with his friends, planned out years before.
His Jacobite prejudices had been exhibited with little disguise both in his works and in his conversation.
The influence exercised by his conversation, directly upon those with whom he lived, and indirectly on the whole literary world, was altogether without a parallel.
But his conversation was nowhere so brilliant and striking as when he was surrounded by a few friends, whose abilities and knowledge enabled them, as he once expressed it, to send him back every ball that he threw.
During those visits his chief business was to watch Johnson, to discover all Johnson's habits, to turn the conversation to subjects about which Johnson was likely to say something remarkable, and to fill quarto notebooks with minutes of what Johnson had said.
In 1765 the Thrales became acquainted with Johnson, and the acquaintance ripened fast into friendship. They were astonished and delighted by the brilliancy of his conversation.
About the beginning of 1775 his Journey to the Hebrides was published, and was, during some weeks, the chief subject of conversation in all circles in which any attention was paid to literature.
In conversation he was a singularly eager, acute and pertinacious disputant.
Spencer county was still a wilderness, and the boy grew up in pioneer surroundings, living in a rude log-cabin, enduring many hardships and knowing only the primitive manners, conversation and ambitions of sparsely settled backwoods communities.
Relating anecdotes with appreciative humour and fascinating dramatic skill, lie used them freely and effectively in conversation and argument.
His lectures and conversation classes were extraordinarily good, possessing as he did the rare gift of kindling the enthusiasm without curbing the individuality of his pupils.
In his own time, by his writings and by his conversation, Godwin had a great power of influencing men, and especially young men.
In social intercourse the Egyptians observe many forms of salutation and much etiquette; they are very affable, and readily enter into conversation with strangers.
All accounts agree in describing him in later life as a man of handsome presence, with a venerable white beard, piercing black eyes and a benevolent cast of countenance, the effect of which was heightened in conversation by a voice of singular sweetness.
At eleven came parade, and an hour afterwards, punctually, dinner, which continued till two, or later, if conversation happened to be particularly attractive.
At supper he was always surrounded by a number of his most intimate friends, mainly Frenchmen; and he insisted on the conversation being perfectly free.
The brilliant conversation of both attracted some notice in the literary society of Edinburgh.
His conversation was still interesting, especially when it turned upon his recollections, and though his judgments were sometimes severe enough, he never condescended to the scandalous.
As early as 1730-1740, the great English public schools and universities began to attract the Scottish youths of the wealthier classes, and now good Scots is seldom heard in conversation and is not always written in popular Scottish novels.
It is necessary to remember that the Buddha, like other Indian teachers of his period, taught by conversation only.
Between them these first two collections contain 186 dialogues, in which the Buddha, or in a few cases one of his leading disciples, is represented as engaged in conversation on some one of the religious, or philosophic, or ethical points in that system which we now call Buddhism.
The cession of Cyprus to Great Britain was at first denounced by the French newspapers as a great blow to his diplomacy, but he obtained, in a conversation with Lord Salisbury, a promise that Great Britain in return would allow France a free hand in Tunis.
Heresy was gaining ground in high places, especially after the king's marriage with Catherine Parr; and there seems to be some truth in the story that the queen herself was nearly committed for it at one time, when Gardiner, with the king's approbation, censured some of her expressions in conversation.
Towards the end of this conversation the evangelist passes imperceptibly from reporting the words of the Lord into an interpretation or amplification of them, and in language which recalls the prologue he unfolds the meaning of Christ's mission and indicates the crisis of self-judgment which necessarily accompanies the manifestation of the Light to each individual.
The pure Arab origin of the Bedouins is recognized in common conversation in the country, the word " Arab " being almost restricted to denote these wanderers, and seldom applied to the dwellers in towns and villages.
He hated the "morbid rage of debate" because he believed that men were never convinced by argument, but only by reflection, through reading or unprovocative conversation; and this belief guided him through life.
There for several years he lived, and taught by close earnest personal address and conversation.
Languages should be taught, like the mother tongue, by conversation on ordinary topics; pictures, object lessons, should be used; teaching should go hand in hand with a happy life.
The state of the prison, the desperation of the prisoners, broadly hinted in their conversation and plainly expressed in their conduct, the uproar of oaths, complaints and obscenity, the indescribable stench, presented together a concentration of the utmost misery and the utmost guilt."
Thus in1877-1878efforts were made to minimize contamination by segregating the worst criminals and restricting conversation at exercise.
But the work is too arduous to allow of long and desultory conversation; the chance of contamination is now minimized by the careful separation of the less hardened from the old offenders.
Her plump beauty was often remarked - notably by Washington Irving - in contrast to her husband's delicate and feeble figure and wizened face - for even in his prime Madison was, as Henry Adams says, "a small man, quiet, somewhat precise in manner, pleasant, fond of conversation, with a certain mixture of ease and dignity in his address."
He seems to have been a poor man until by the influence of the governor of Basra he was brought to the notice of Harun al-Rashid, who enjoyed his conversation at court and made him tutor of his son.
So also Mill is justified in preferring a scene of Shakespeare or an hour's conversation with a friend to a great mass of lower pleasure.
I have been no haughty or intolerable or hateful man in my conversation or carriage.
In not a few instances modern English nomenclature has supplanted the old Welsh placenames in popular usage, although the town's original appellation is retained in Welsh literature and conversation, e.g.
It was said that he died of a broken heart, and a conversation with the king is reported in which Louis disparagingly compared the buildings of Versailles, which Colbert was superintending, with the works constructed by Louvois in Flanders.
The change of opinion in this respect may be dated from Lessing's famous conversation with Jacobi in 1780.
For nine years she was not only his most faithful nurse, but an attraction to his house, where she tried to bridle the licence of the conversation of the time.
Dr Boyd was a very famous preacher and talker, and his desultory essays have very much of the charm of his conversation.
The letter is essentially a spontaneous, nonliterary production, ephemeral, intimate, personal and private, a substitute for a spoken conversation.
Many members, men of advanced views, were excluded by the council of state, acting on the strength of clause XVII., which declared that those elected must be "persons of known integrity, fearing God, and of good conversation."
We see a real man, but a man helpless anywhere save in the study or in the convent - a little fresh-coloured man, with soft brown eyes, who had a habit of stealing away to his cubiculum whenever the conversation became too lively; somewhat bent, for it is on record that he stood upright when the psalms were chanted, and even rose on his tiptoes with his face turned upwards; genial, if shy, and occasionally given to punning, as when he said that he preferred Psalmi to Salmones; a man who perhaps led the most placid uneventful life of all men who ever wrote a book or scribbled letters.
Of the extraordinary influence which he exercised in conversation it is impossible to speak fully here.
Emigrating in 1791, he fought two campaigns in the army of Conde, and eventually found his way to Hamburg, where he met Antoine de Rivarol, of whose brilliant conversation he has left an account.
In the same year he was appointed clerk of the closet to the queen, and had to take part in the metaphysical conversation parties which she loved to gather round her.
From his throne at Leiden he ruled the learned world; a word from him could make or mar a rising reputation; and he was surrounded by young men eager to listen to and profit by his conversation.
Such a man expresses his ideas much better by word of mouth than in the cold formality of print; and Fenelon's contemporaries thought far more highly of his conversation than his books.
He was bitterly opposed, however, to the liberal practices that followed the Half-Way Covenant and (after 1677) in particular to "Stoddardeanism," the doctrine of Solomon Stoddard (1643-1729) that all "such Persons as have a good Conversation and a Competent Knowledge may come to the Lord's Supper," only those of openly immoral life being excluded.
The narrative of Tacitus breaks off at the moment when Thrasea was about to address Demetrius, the Cynic philosopher, with whom he had previously on the fatal day held a conversation on the nature of the soul.
Plato further simplified the form, and reduced it to pure argumentative conversation, while leaving intact the amusing element of character-drawing.
In our own day, the French have returned to the original application of dialogue, and the inventions of "Gyp," of Henri Lavedan and of others, in which a mundane anecdote is wittily and maliciously told in conversation, would probably present a close analogy to the lost mimes of the early Sicilian poets, if we could meet with them.
C. His original name was Tyrtamus, but he later became known by the nickname "Theophrastus," given to him, it is said, by Aristotle to indicate the grace of his conversation.
The power of minute observation displayed is most remarkable, as also in Polite Conversation (written in 1731, published in 1738), a surprising assemblage of the vulgarities and trivialities current in ordinary talk.
Strangely enough, however, the government passed over the incriminating conversation with Greenway, and relied entirely on the strong circumstantial evidence to support the charge of high treason against the prisoner.
Like a genial Dr. Johnson in conversation, he made easy captives of British statesmen on his visits to London.
Macdonald, the great protectionist prime minister of Canada, in a conversation with the presen writer in 1882, avowed without hesitation that protectionist taxation in Canada was indefensible on economic grounds, and he defended it exclusively for political reasons.
Bunyan has told us, with very pardonable vanity, that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands, and was thought worthy to appear in the most superb binding.
But Balzac did him justice; Rotrou, as we have seen, never failed in generous appreciation; Moliere in conversation and in print recognized him as his own master and the foremost of dramatists.
Towards the end of this conversation, when it was evening, Ananda broke down and went aside to weep, but the Buddha missed him, and sending for him comforted him with the promise of Nirvana, and repeated what he had so often said before about the impermanence of all things, - "0 Ananda!
Pietism, as a distinct movement in the German Church, was then originated by Spener by religious meetings at his house (collegia pietatis), at which he repeated his sermons, expounded passages of the New Testament, and induced those present to join in conversation on religious questions that arose.
The idea of regeneration seldom occurs in the New Testament, and perhaps not at all in connexion with baptism; for in the conversation with Nicodemus, John ill.
In the conversation with Nicodemus we seem to overhear a protest against the growing tendency of the last years of the 1st century to substitute formal sacraments for the free afflatus of the spirit, and to "crib, cabin and confine" the gift of prophecy.
A conversation which he had held with Lessing in 1780, in which Lessing avowed that he knew no philosophy, in the true sense of that word, save Spinozism, led him to a protracted study of Spinoza's works.
While at Berlin in1824-1825he was thrown into prison, either on some ill-defined political charge at the instance of the French police, or on account of certain incautious expressions which he had let fall in conversation.
The cabinet decided to do nothing that could wear the appearance of interference in the internal affairs of France; but Lord Palmerston, in conversation with the French minister in London, took upon himself to approve the bold and decisive step taken by the president.
In the nation at large, the late violent ferment had been followed by as remarkable a deadness and vapidity, and Burke himself had to admit a year or two later that any remarkable robbery at Hounslow Heath would make more conversation than all the disturbances of America.
Here he entertained the many distinguished friends, literary and political, who had been drawn to him by his "Curiosities" and other ingenious works, and here his son Benjamin also had their acquaintance and conversation.
It is only when we keep all these points in view that we can understand how from the spring of Socratic conversation flowed the divergent streams of Greek ethical thought.
Here all the members assemble in the evening for conversation and amusement, the women spinning, while the children play.
The conversation of Wolmar may also have been of use to him in his consideration of the doctrines of the Reformation, which were now beginning to be widely diffused through France.
To Cardinal Hohenzollern, Urban was reported to have said that the theory of the earth's motion had not been and could not be condemned as heretical, but only as rash; and in 1630 the brilliant Dominican monk Tommaso Campanella wrote to Galileo that the pope had expressed to him in conversation his disapproval of the prohibitory decree.
His criticisms of the government, given sometimes in conversation, sometimes in the columns of the Hamburger Nachrichten, caused an open breach between him and the emperor; and the new chancellor, Count Caprivi, in a circular despatch which was afterwards published, warned all German envoys that no real importance must be attached to what he said.
The importance of the conversation was, however, greatly exaggerated by the press, and also by Protopopov himself.
He was remarkable from the first, handsome in face and tall in figure, with a finely trained singing voice, and brilliant in wit and conversation.
The captivating charm of his manners and conversation is attested by all who knew him, and in familiar life he was artlessly simple.
A constant restlessness oppressed him; his sight gave way; his conversation became an extraordinary mixture of metaphors; and it was only at intervals that gleams of his former power broke out, especially when some old chord of association was struck in natural science or physical geography.
This was his only regular meal; and he often prolonged the conversation till late in the afternoon.
This last demand Benedetti submitted to the king in an informal meeting on the promenade at Ems, and the misleading reports of the conversation which were circulated were the immediate cause of the war which followed, for the Germans were led to believe that Benedetti had insulted the king, and the French that the king had insulted the ambassador.
The conversation drifted on, with Jonathan occasionally contributing, but Alex was stoic in his position at the window.
That was the extent of their conversation before Señor Medena cut in.
What she was saying was a mystery, but the volume and tone of her voice made it obvious that the conversation wasn't pleasant.
Whether it was their conversation or the realization of what she was doing, the embarrassment about intimacy vanished.
Although the issue was out of their conversation, it was far from out of her mind.
With every step up to the office where Señor Medena waited, he dreaded the conversation.
She paused at her door, reluctant to invade his privacy, but intrigued by what she might derive from his conversation.
He was good at deceptive conversation – too good.
Yancey wasn't watching her, but he was watching the road so intently that she was sure he was trying to extract something from her side of the conversation.
If they caught her listening into their conversation, there would be no chance to get away.
Valuing his friendship, she had developed a knack for turning the conversation on a less perilous course.
But their conversation... was an expression of love for a sibling – siblings that had apparently been through a lot together.
I told her Howie had a flashback but I didn't relate the rest of his whacky conversation.
I settled in my most comfortable chair for a long conversation.
I considered conveying our tip on the incident directly to Brennan as I still had his cell number but I wasn't rehearsed for a lengthy conversation with him.
As the call had progressed, the others picked up on the substance from my side of the conversation.
As the evening continued and the wine took hold, conversation relaxed to a more congenial level.
In spite of his kind words, the conversation left me with the feeling we'd disappointed this incredibly generous gentleman.
She murmured an assent and ended the conversation.
Zamon's conversation with her about Darkyn tricking his predecessor left her feeling like she walked into a trap when she made the deal with Past-Death.
He looked like a corporate chairman ready to give an annual report as he rolled his eyes with impatience at his brother who dominated the conversation with laughter and silly stories.
Amid forced conversation, the group plodded their way through shrimp, chicken, and enchiladas to dessert—fried ice cream—but if the Deans thought this final outing would be a celebration, they were mistaken.
They lapsed into an animated conversation about depression glass, antiques, and the marvels of unloading junk on Internet auctions.
It was unclear if the gesture was a token of affection or made to emphasize a point in her animated conversation.
Apparently the historic Calvia dinner transpired without bloodletting, or at least no mayhem was reported by Cynthia after her lengthy conversation ended.
They entered into deep conversation, discussing the pending bid item—a statue of a nymph waving a snake.
The conversation drifted to clothing—Cynthia's search for an appropriate wedding dress for the mother of the groom, and Jennifer's west coast dress shop.
Dean half expected to be next referred to Leonidas W. Smiley of Calaveras County—with apologies to Mark Twain—if he didn't keep the conversation on track.
The conversation drifted from thank-you's to Martha's plight, Fred's incarceration, and Jennifer's somewhat unsettled future.
The Deans' conversation drifted away from the young girl's plight to Jennifer Radisson's recent pronouncement.
As for the remainder of their conversation … It was unreal.
She drew him as she'd seen him during their conversation the day before, the quietly fierce leader seated in his ship.
The sound stopped in a minute or so but a three AM recurrence woke them enough to hold a brief conversation on the source of the nocturnal noise, a conversation repeated at four AM, by which time the couple were fully awake.
Dean asked, not only trying to be polite but in hopes of dragging the conversation away from the occult, the celestial and the just plain weird.
Conversation on the trip up was limited to Ryland's enthusiastic appraisal of his son's abilities and skiing in general, with no mention of Edith Shipton and her problems.
After a kiss and a hug, but no further conversation of consequence, Cynthia boarded the plane for the first leg to Denver.
He could read Fred like a book—start the conversation with a few benign topics, then ease in.
The four ate with gusto and animated conversation, led by Fred O'Connor, who won the contest of sucking up the longest spaghetti strand without dribbling oil on his chin.
Later, Dean heard the movement of the mortuary men coming for Edith—the hushed conversation and the bumping and thumping as the lifeless shell of this troubled woman was bagged and forever removed from Bird Song.
Bill and Katie were in deep conversation and sat down in unison, completely oblivious to what was going on around them.
In fact, the whole conversation seemed … off.
That was the sum and substance of the conversation, as far as Dean could remember the following morning.
Nor had Burgess heard any noise or conversation from apartment C to indicate there was anyone there—much less more than one person.
He slumped down on the sofa in disgust, waiting for Randy to finish the conversation, his foot kicking open the bicycle magazine.
Dean felt awkward standing above her and leaned forward in order to carry on any semblance of a conversation above the din of the crowded room.
It was well past the rescheduled reservation time when a mispronounced version of Cynthia's name was called and they were led through a babble of conversation and a clatter of silverware to a corner table, remarkably, one with a view of the now-darkened bay.
He was courteous to her instead of affectionate, but they were talking — if simple questions and answers could be called conversation.
I told you why I left – and I don't want to get into that conversation again.
There had been no actual admission that Dad had sent a bodyguard, only her interpretation of the conversation.
Multi-colored strobe lights pulsed around the overcrowded, vampire-themed club while electronica drowned out most attempts at conversation.
His mood turned increasingly belligerent as the conversation continued and it became clear that Dr. Whitecoat had no ready-made solutions to offer.
Pietersen was also fortunate during a typically belligerent conversation that Flintoff would have a declaration to mull over.
As they grow, they will struggle to learn new words, make conversation and sound coherent.
He let the conversation digress into endless discussions about "character."
As the hours passed, our conversation grew more animated, as we talked about " very private " issues.
On this occasion, we chose to prop up the bar and engage the very friendly barmaid in conversation.
Don't invite provocative conversation or respond to alleviate any boredom.
Some malicious callers may want nothing more than to have a conversation.
In 1966 Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT developed the first computer program capable of engaging in a conversation with a human Eliza.
You can hold a conversation with him and he is utterly charming.
The first of two commentary tracks features the co-directors in conversation with the film's cinematographer, Jason Christ.
Hit a red icon, and Larry will either fart or drop a clunker into the conversation, lowering his confidence.
I was engaged in a cocktail party conversation with a recently retired air force colonel.
In his Conversation he was affable (being not puffed by his Learning) and always communicative of anything he was Master of.
Arms and legs the seminars receptions and good conversation beach offering complimentary.
What else... oh, how when you randomly pull out a notion in conversation, sometimes it sticks and elicits a confession.
I can get inspiration for songs from many things; the weather, people, overheard conversation, moods.