The conversation of the characters creates an atmosphere suggesting the usual mixture of pleasures, foibles, irritations, and concerns which would characterize the common life of a normal village in any age.

It is a common term and part of every day conversation on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network ( AVEN ) forums, and many members will refer to themselves as " orientation asexuals ".

They also agreed that " we shall by all means labor to keep off from us all such as are contrary minded, and receive only such unto us as may be probably of one heart with us, such as that we either know or may well and truly be informed to walk in a peaceable conversation with all meekness of spirit, for the edification of each other in the knowledge and faith of the Lord Jesus …" The covenant also stipulated that if differences were to arise between townsmen, they would seek arbitration for resolution and each would pay his fair share for the common good.

For example, Calvin once wrote, " I have had much conversation with many Jews: I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness – nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

He has sponsored a number of conferences and collaborative projects that drew different religions into conversation on common themes and problems.

The coat closet opens onto the center of the house in The Living Room, a common hangout and place for conversation ; its fixtures include a fireplace ( where things can be roasted ), The Living Room Couch ( which periodically causes players ' objects to ' fall through ' to underneath the couch ), and a pet Cockatoo who repeats overheard phrases ( which is often found with its beak gagged ).

In one common situation, a romantically involved couple start a conversation face-to-face, then one character will turn 180 ° and face away from the other character while conversation continues.

It's also common to use this technique to simultaneously portray both participants in a telephone conversation, a long-standing convention which dates back to early silents, as in Lois Weber's triangular frames in her 1913 Suspense, and culminating in Pillow Talk, where Doris Day and Rock Hudson share a party line.

In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: " If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort — a common work of both our nations.

The Tudors otherwise rejected or suppressed other religious notions, whether for the Pope's award of Fidei Defensor or to prevent them from being in the hands of the common laity, who might be swayed by cells of foreign Protestants, with whom they had conversation as Marian exiles, pursuing a strategy of containment which the Lancastrians had done ( after being vilified by Wat Tyler ), even though the phenomenon of " Lollard knights " ( like John Oldcastle ) had become almost a national sensation all on its own.

His father and mother were " full of enthusiasm for the game " and it was " a common theme of conversation at home ".

The concepts have however been extended from their computing and telecommunication meanings into the area of human interaction and conversation, such that even offline can be used in contrast to the common usage of online.

The conversation still makes sense due to uses of common phrases that can be used as either greetings or farewells (" Good day ") and the positioning of lines which double as an answer to a question in the next line.

Several choices of dialogue are presented in certain situations, allowing players to choose the path of conversation and ultimately advance the scene by selecting the right choice of words ( something common in several LucasArts adventure games of the era ).

Metaphorical language is a common feature of religious discussion, ( for example midrash or medieval RomanCatholic " common places " or modern biblespeak ) wherein fluency in a religious text is often a prerequisite to participating fully in a conversation.

If, in addition to their chance encounter, they happen to strike up an engaging conversation and find that they have common interests -- perhaps in cinema, music, and / or photography -- it makes their meeting all the more precious, and the depth of their yuanfen all the more noteworthy.

Most of these groups share many common cultural traits and speak dialects or languages that are very similar, with only minor differences in tones, vocabulary, and pronunciation of certain words, but usually not enough to impede conversation, but many of these groups, such as the Nyaw and Phuthai consider themselves distinct, and often have differences in clothing that differentiate them.

In most republican nations, the president is formally addressed as His Excellency ; however in day-to-day conversation Mr. President remains the most common means of address.

Dialogue such as this made " china " a dirty word in common conversation, Wycherley later claimed.

Like many of the other disorders mentioned, some of the most common significant effects are seen in social behaviors, leading to improvements in interaction, conversation, and other such skills.

The phrase remains in common use, both colloquially and in the media, in reference to recent immigration and assimilation in Ireland, and to some degree about some of the Irish diaspora ( for example in The Irish Times ,) or in conversation discussing the relationship between the cultural heritage of the Irish diaspora and the Irish in Ireland.

It is common in the area to refer to towns in a highly abbreviated form in casual conversation: thus, Pocklington is commonly referred to as " Pock ".

It is common practice to replace them with ae, oe, ue digraphs when the diacritics are unavailable, for example in electronic conversation.

His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.

This poem gave rise to the common phrase monarch of all I survey via the verse:

The phrase definitely refers to a distillation of the common law into general and accepted legal principles.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

The original phrase " the common-wealth " or " the common weal " ( echoed in the modern synonym " public weal ") comes from the old meaning of " wealth ," which is " well-being ", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica ( republic ).

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus sanguinis meaning " right of blood " and means that citizenship is granted based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.

Although the phrase " perfect game " appeared in record books as early as 1922, and was a common expression years before that, Major League Baseball did not formalize the definition of a " perfect game " until 1991, long after Young's death.

The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.

Among these choices, Gaussian units are the most common today, and in fact the phrase " CGS units " is often used to refer specifically to CGS-Gaussian units.

In these elves are linked to the Æsir, particularly by the common phrase " Æsir and the elves ".

Some authorities claim the word derives from the Late Latin phrase forestam silvam, meaning " the outer wood "; others claim the term is a latinisation of the Frankish word * forhist " forest, wooded country ", assimilated to forestam silvam ( a common practise among Frankish scribes ).

One common example has to do with the phrase rule of thumb, meaning a rough measurement.

In the most common case concord system, only the final word ( the noun ) in a phrase is marked for case.

This negative reputation survives today in the English language, in terms like " gin mills " or the American phrase " gin joints " to describe disreputable bars or " gin-soaked " to refer to drunks, and in the phrase " mother's ruin ", a common British name for gin.

The word is used in a common English phrase, ' not one iota ', meaning ' not the slightest amount ', in reference to a phrase in the New Testament: " until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law " ().

" Jewish – Christian " is used in 1841 to mean a combination of Jewish and Christian beliefs, and by 1877 to mean a common Jewish – Christian culture, used in the phrase " the Jewish – Christian character of … traditions ".

Another characteristic feature of logical positivism is the commitment to " Unified Science "; that is, the development of a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a " universal slang " in which all scientific propositions can be expressed.

The phrase " methodological individualism ," which has come into common usage in modern debates about the connection between microeconomics and macroeconomics, was coined by the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1908 as a way of referring to the views of Weber.

A common use of the phrase ANN model really means the definition of a class of such functions ( where members of the class are obtained by varying parameters, connection weights, or specifics of the architecture such as the number of neurons or their connectivity ).

The chanting of the essential phrase Nam ( u ) Myoho Renge Kyo is a common practice between all followers of Nichiren Buddhism.

For example, in George Carlin's phrase " Atheism is a non-prophet institution ", the word " prophet " is put in place of its homophone " profit ", altering the common phrase " non-profit institution ".