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`` Yes '', he lied to shorten the conversation, `` I still have it ''.
Film historian Richard Griffith speaks of Capra's “... reliance on sentimental conversation and the ultimate benevolence of ordinary America to resolve all deep conflicts .” “ Average America ” is visualized as "... a still tree lined street, undistinguished frame houses surrounded by modest areas of grass, a few automobiles.
In the conversation with him, she comes away believing Ashley still loves her and is jealous of her intimate relations with Rhett, which excites her.
And if you are in an airliner, you can still carry on a conversation with the person beside you because the sound of your words is traveling along with the air inside the aircraft.
In day-to-day conversation, however, Canadians generally still refer to the province itself as Newfoundland and to the region on the Canadian mainland as Labrador.
They try to remain platonic throughout the conversation until the end when Beverly says I'll save the last dance for you, a line that has private meaning between the two, implying that Beverly still has feelings for him and hasn't given up on their relationship.
At one point in the opera, the rival divas Carmen Ghia and Donna Ribalda break character in the middle of a recitative, so the singers can hold a conversation ( still in recitative ) about their singing careeers.
In London he also learnt that he knew far more English than he had supposed, although still did not understand half of what was said in conversation.
On a recent visit to Dundee we had an interesting conversation with the author upon more advanced truths, and a brief inspection of his great and still incomplete work-a Dictionary of 53 Languages, upon which he has labored closely since 1828.
In Standard Peninsular Spanish, however, vosotros ( literally, " you others ") is still regularly employed in familiar conversation.
High German is by now the dominant language but Low German in its Holsteinisch version still has a place in informal conversation.
Winick, who became best friends with Zamora, stated that Zamora had an almost " clairvoyant " ability to broach sensitive subjects, and still sensing that Winick had lingering doubts about sharing a room with him, Zamora educated Winick on ways in which the virus could and could not be transmitted, and did so subtly, through casual conversation, so that Winick did not even realize it.
After some tense conversation in which the hillbillies appear to be goading the others, Ed speculates that the two locals have a moonshine still hidden in the woods and Bobby amicably offers to buy some.
Latter-day reinterpretations of Spider-Man, such as the Spider-Man movie and the Ultimate Spider-Man comic, depict Ben as saying this phrase to Peter while he is still alive, in their last conversation.
* Manglish 1: refers to the English of the English-medium educated where English is still a true second language ; being used by its speakers in everyday conversation.
Yamani's biography suggests that the Algerians had used a covert listening device on the front of the aircraft to overhear the earlier conversation between the terrorists, and found that Carlos had in fact still planned to murder the two oil ministers.
The word endings with ' en ' are still noticeable in conversation as in ' gooen ' for going, callen for calling.
Up to the middle of the 20th century many locals still spoke Low Rhenish, though today almost all people use Standard High German in daily conversation, even amongst family.
It is possible that this was false and the screen still functioned as a surveillance device, as after Winston and Julia are taken into the Ministry of Love, their conversation with the telescreen " off " is played back to Winston.
Cordelia, in conversation with Charles Ryder, quotes a passage from the Father Brown detective story " The Queer Feet ": " I caught him, with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world, and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.
In Germany the expression " Klo " ( first syllable of " closet ") is still used, though the term is colloquial and not welcome in polite conversation.
British Member of Parliament Jack Ashley received a cochlear implant in 1994 at age 70 after 25 years of deafness, and reported that he has no trouble speaking to people he knows ; whether one on one or even on the telephone, although he might have difficulty with a new voice or with a busy conversation, and still had to rely to some extent on lip reading.
* A further twist to the British David Kelly scandal occurs, as Tony Blair's official spokesman, Tom Kelly, apologizes to David Kelly's family for having compared the late and still un-buried Dr. Kelly to a " Walter Mitty " character in a " private " conversation with a journalist.
Their conversation typically involves the hero asking, " Do the eagles ( or ravens ) still circle the mountaintop?

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Mr Bingley is soon well received, while his friend Mr Darcy makes a less favorable first impression by appearing proud and condescending at a ball that they attend ( this is partly explained in that he detests dancing and is not much for light conversation ).
* The Human Torso ( Prince Randian ), in the middle of a conversation, makes his own cigarette and lights it, using only his tongue.
The man-in-the-middle attack ( often abbreviated MITM, MitM, MIM, MiM, also known as a bucket brigade attack, or sometimes Janus attack ) in cryptography and computer security is a form of active eavesdropping in which the attacker makes independent connections with the victims and relays messages between them, making them believe that they are talking directly to each other over a private connection, when in fact the entire conversation is controlled by the attacker.
While it is a computer interface which makes the final musical conversation with the alien guests possible, the characteristics bringing Neary to make his way to Devils Tower have little to do with technical expertise or computer literacy.
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.
Bohm Dialogue ( also known as Bohmian Dialogue or " Dialogue in the Spirit of David Bohm ") is a freely-flowing group conversation that makes an attempt, utilizing a theoretical understanding of the way thoughts relate to universal reality, to more effectively investigate the crises that face society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness.
Further, she recalled a conversation with Kastner after the war, telling him, " I don't say that you could have saved my daughter Hannah, but that you didn't try-it makes it harder for me that nothing was done.
When next seen, he is imprisoned at Nijō Castle, although, according to the shoshidai of Kyōto in a conversation with Koetsu, it is more of a protective custody, since his nation-wide fame from defeating the Yoshioka now makes him the target of possible revenge, challenges from fighters seeking fame and invitations to serve as a samurai.
At night a conversation between his parents makes him change his mind.
This is a gallant authorial gesture, as when a professor at Cornell, Nabokov had complained from the lectern of authors who ask readers to accept a character's gifts on faith: " The author has hinted already that Gurov focus of Chekhov's Lady with the Little Dog was witty in the company of women: and instead of having the reader take it for granted ( you know the old method of describing the talk as ' brilliant ' but giving no samples of the conversation ), Chekhov makes him joke in a really attractive, winning way.
At Babe's home, Sid's romantic overtures are deflected by Babe, who makes casual conversation on tangential subjects (" Small Talk ").
Smith has no idea who Ollie is, but their conversation about work and children makes him decide to sacrifice the former for the latter.
If one makes a request and receives a " no " it is recommended not that one give up, but that one empathize with what is preventing the other person from saying " yes ," before deciding how to continue the conversation.
Also, McGraw is “ well read, witty, and brilliant and makes many bright points in his conversation .’’ And, he said, McGraw pays his fines promptly.
Johnson visits Aubrey who, unawares, makes free with his comments about Maturin, only to realise his folly later in a bedside conversation with Stephen.
Only with this sequence reinserted, the odd cut from the Caesar conversation involving the humans to the ending sequence makes more sense.
At an inn in Gorgonzola, he overhears a conversation which makes it clear to him how much trouble he is in and so he walks all night until he reaches the River Adda.
Later on, Irulan spies on Reverend Mother Mohiam's clandestine meeting with a Spacing Guild operative ; their conversation makes her realize that there is more to what is happening on Arrakis than meets the eye.
In her medieval novels particularly, she makes her characters, including Huns and Mongols, speak in semi-colloquial English, apparently intended to give the reader the impression of listening in on a conversation in the speakers ' own vernacular.
The doctor, in conversation, informs Tetsuya of a local legend of a protective deity named " Casshern "- a deity whose statue makes numerous appearances in the movie.
In conversation, former detective Renee Montoya makes a reference to Toby Raines.
And I imagine that he even makes the occasional sexual reference in his conversation after a couple of glasses of sherry.
She admitted, though, that in the early stage of production she was temperamental, insisting that she was inspired to behave that way after a conversation with Marlene Dietrich, who told her that " a star is only as important as she makes herself out to be.
During this conversation GZA makes a reference to how he would drink lots of coffee before going to bed so his dreams would " whip by " similar to the camera-shots at the Indy 500, very similar to the same reference that Steven Wright did in the first segment.

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