He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

But no President ever before referred to his as a `` lousy job '' ( as Walter Trohan recently quoted President Kennedy as doing in conversation with Sen. Barry Goldwater ).

Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.

Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

After a conversation with another man, he was able to recount practically everything that had been said but could not describe at all what the other man looked like.

Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.

Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government offices in Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French, we were getting nowhere.

The New Bedford Standard-Times has reported Knowlton as saying, long after the trial, that if he only knew what Borden said during his conversation with Morse, he would have convicted `` somebody ''.

The hangover in turn reminded him of his conversation with the weirdy, and he groaned.

He was no longer able to relax in the presence of his parents and found it difficult to keep up a conversation with his mother or father, no matter the subject.

Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

Rieux's position is made clear in part II in a conversation with Tarrou.

One of Xu's students is quoted as having criticized the duke of Teng in a conversation with Mencius by saying:

Alcott's plan was to develop self-instruction on the basis of self-analysis, with an emphasis on conversation and questioning rather than lecturing and drill, which were prevalent in the U. S. classrooms of the time.

In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

The work arose, he says, from a conversation he had with the emperor Nerva at Frontinus's house at Formiae.

Griffin 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.

In an interview, Brooks mentioned a conversation he'd had with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader, in which Schrader said that Brooks's character was the only one in the movie that he could not " understand " – a remark that Brooks found amusing, as the movie's antihero was a psychotic loner.

" By 1928, Fuller was living in Greenwich Village and spending much of his time at the popular café Romany Marie's, where he had spent an evening in conversation with Marie and Eugene O ' Neill several years earlier.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

It was clear, however, that Leonidovich himself felt he had not come as well as he should out of his unexpected conversation with the Leader.

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Walker promptly telephoned Ford's HQ in Dearborn and told designer Frank Hershey about the conversation with Crusoe.

Cathedral was conceived during a conversation Duckworth had with his wife, Nora Farrell, a software designer who specializes in music and publishing web applications.

In 1988 while attending a meeting at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in Erice, Thomas had a conversation with Professor Ugo Valdrè of the University of Bologna who agreed with her that the science of cooking was an undervalued subject and encouraged her to organize a workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center.

The CRTC argues that allowing free trade in television stations would overwhelm the smaller Canadian market, preventing it from upholding its responsibility to foster a national conversation.

A conversation with Tony Gwynn was filmed for television.

The idea for the story came from a conversation between Gaiman and Henry about a possible television series.

Tom T. Hall's country music classic " Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine ," about a nostalgic conversation in an almost deserted barroom, mentions the bartender passing the time by watching Ironside on television, although the song refers to it as " Ironsides.

In season 3 episode 12 of the television show The X-Files Scully mention this condition in conversation with Mulder.

For example, the producers of a television or radio program might wish to produce the aural illusion that a conversation is taking place in a cave ; this effect might be accomplished by playing the recording of the conversation inside an echo chamber, with an accompanying microphone to catch the echoes.

In some television commercials Hearst III was shown having a conversation with his grandfather's portrait.

Karel Gott, a popular male singer, recorded a song portraying a conversation between a casual lover and his sweetheart that was banned from radio and television.

In their sketches, they seem to be having an intelligent discussion, albeit in their own ' street ' language, but it is then shown that they are doing something nonsensical or are in the wrong place ( example: in one episode they are waiting in the audience of what they think is a taping of ' The Oprah Winfrey Show ', leading to a conversation about the purpose of television and talk shows in society, but then the show starts and they find out they have in fact gone to an opera performance by mistake.

He made various comments about Tony Blair being a liar, Blair responded on a BBC live television broadcast saying " He was not present at any meeting I had with George Bush and I don't remember having any conversation on the issue with Brian Sedgemore ".

It is Masthoff's contention that it is possible to develop an interactive, personalized form of television that would allow the viewer to engage in natural conversation and learn from these conversations.

The discipline encompasses a range of topics, from face-to-face conversation to mass media outlets such as television broadcasting.

Previous children's educational television programs presented their content in a one-way conversation, but Blue's Clues revolutionized the genre by inviting its viewers ' involvement.

An emotional television interview he gave to the BBC only hours after the bombing brought him to national and international prominence as he described his last conversation with his dying daughter as they both lay buried in rubble.

The conversation turned to the possibilities of using television to educate young children ; Morrisett raised the question, " Do you think television could be used to teach young children?

In the first season episode " Walkabout " of the television series Lost, John Locke is in his cubicle having a confidential phone conversation when he is interrupted by his superior asking him to submit his TPS reports by noon.

In the evening family members gather around the kotatsu to enjoy food, television, games and conversation while keeping their bottom half warm under the kotatsu.

Everyday sounds like shutting doors, ringing phones, television, running water, ticking clocks, chewing gum, cooking, normal conversation, eating, dishes, and other sounds will hurt his / her ears.

Saul and Austin have a conversation discussing the agreement they have made when Lee suddenly walks in with a stolen television set.

Apparent skips in the print used in the television program led to some amusing continuity problems, including a scene in a diner in which Buz suddenly appears in his seat next to Michele and Critter as if he teleports in during their conversation.

Some instances of contact between languages with different prestige levels have resulted in diglossia, a phenomenon in which a community uses a high prestige language or dialect in certain situations — usually for newspapers, in literature, on university campuses, for religious ceremonies, and on television and the radio — but uses a low prestige language or dialect for other situations — often in conversation in the home or in letters, comic strips, and in popular culture.

An order prohibiting publication under Section 11 of the Contempt of Court Act ( 1981 ) was issued forbidding any United Kingdom newspaper from releasing certain information regarding a memo which is alleged to have been an official transcript of a conversation between U. S. President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, which in the context of the planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, regarded a plan to bomb selected offices of the Arabic language Al Jazeera television news station.