They ate the rest of dinner making idle small talk and getting a feel for each other. |
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Film directors, producers and actors rubbed shoulders, making small talk and reminiscing about their association with the late director. |
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He loathed small talk, particularly that involving weather, or worse, sports, anything that did not really matter. |
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After some small talk my mother noticed Callie's ballet slippers that still shod my little feet. |
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The inanity, the empty politeness of small talk is revealed by its absence. |
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Without having been introduced and before the usual small talk, they struck up a conversation about it. |
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India is so consumed with cricket that most conversation about the game is actually small talk. |
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On social occasions, small talk on neutral topics is appropriate and modest gifts are given. |
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He saw his entire marriage, spent without conversation beyond small talk and bickering. |
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He smiled as he set down a tray of mugs in front of a few ladies, who giggled at him and made polite small talk. |
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The awkward small talk is as communicatively insipid as the first time you asked someone out on a date. |
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As small talk so often does, the chatter turned to the subject of accidental shootings. |
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Pleasant evening, but we don't actually know anyone there, and small talk isn't coming easy for some reason. |
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Anthony was trying to make small talk and chuckled, hoping that Johnson would remember him. |
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For now, make small talk in the locker room or ask someone to be your drill partner. |
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After that we talked some small talk, then I hung up and went back to sleep. |
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A lot of small talk was taking place and they continued to smoke more herb. |
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You may recall that Carlo was wont to give Wayne, the delivery boy, a cup of coffee and make small talk about root vegetables. |
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A guy named Dave, who recently celebrated his 50th birthday, was nursing a beer at the bar and making small talk with some of the other regulars. |
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I suspect this was due to a horrible hangover and my lack of interest in small talk. |
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She managed to keep pace with the small talk, but inside, she was already composing a letter to Bruno. |
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We are met with smiles and welcoming greetings, a bit of small talk, and a friendly goodbye. |
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Even the help of Peter's electronic wizardry is limited when you must make small talk with Russian agents over a fine English tea. |
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She definitely preferred small talk to no talk, especially in this situation. |
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With the streets awash in dead frogs, small talk is no longer the order of the day. |
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I bought a suit today, after two weeks of deliberations, window shopping, and awkward small talk with sales assistants. |
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I especially don't want to be welcomed and have to respond to friendly questions with a thin, watery smile and inane small talk. |
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Gradually, his neighbors become increasingly hostile and the small talk takes on an undercurrent of meanness. |
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What distracted me the most yesterday, despite the sadness of the occasion, was the type of small talk that was going on. |
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See that scene after he first arrives wherein the four ex-pats sit and try to make small talk with him, only for it to fail at every turn. |
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The dance continued and they made small talk for a little while before they went silent and just listened to the music and danced together. |
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While trying to make small talk, I watch as he stretches his legs, walking between window and chair, clutching a pack of cigarettes. |
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They've had centuries to do little but perfect the small talk required when meeting the hoi polloi who pay for their increasingly bizarre visits. |
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This goes beyond making small talk with strangers, although I have a horror of that. |
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It was good to see some of them and say howzit, but a huge gulf of difference between us all meant that small talk dried up very quickly. |
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Mr Adams spent time exchanging small talk and enjoying the good-humoured banter, signing autographs and receiving hugs and kisses. |
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Practising initiating conversation, particularly small talk, with strangers. |
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But as even the tiniest elements of our small talk have to be translated, I'm gripped by the giddy sensation that the world has just ground to a halt. |
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All likely had some uncomfortable small talk to make at the water cooler when they got back. |
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I'd much rather stare moodily out a window than make small talk. |
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We had only been making small talk for a few minutes when he aired his views on the relative attractiveness of Semitic females. |
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Any attempts to lead the judge into informality, personal approaches, familiarity, small talk, or jocularity, must be rigorously avoided. |
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Besides, there's only so much small talk you can make when you know maybe two dozen words in Pashto. |
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Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? |
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Instead of engaging in small talk with editors, he sells via specialized agencies from his stock of 80,000 slides, all stored in iron cabinets in his house. |
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The warm smile and small talk that welcomes first time donors and calms their jittery nerves comes from a volunteer. |
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Learning to engage in appropriate small talk discussions is often a struggle for new Canadians. |
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To talk about the world camp means more than some small talk about weather, work camps or the present music hit of the Philippine youth. |
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The visitor would stay for perhaps a quarter of an hour, making formal small talk. |
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Left to themselves, the two timid musicians may well have limited their communication to small talk and polite smiles. |
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You will learn to converse in everyday situations: on business trips, in conferences, in restaurants or making small talk. |
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In Kiel and in other parts of northern Germany on the Baltic Sea, discussions about the weather are more than just small talk. |
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In the first meeting Nair will spend the first half hour with small talk about the family, city of origin, hobbies and leisure pursuits. |
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Over a glass of champagne and some caviar, Schiggi Miggi loves to do some small talk to make a couple of useful contacts. |
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After a few minutes of small talk, Thierry whips out a few glasses and bottles. |
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He had made polite small talk with her, and that seemed to be about it. |
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I've perfected the art of responding to small talk when not even listening, so my mouth gives off automatic uh-huh's, yeah's, mmm's, and an occasional chuckle. |
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And so, I have reached a saturation point on the small talk about her clothes. |
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Thanks to these alpha parents' first-rate genes and nonstop cocktail parties, their scions were both very good-looking and highly adept at small talk. |
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The intensity and lack of small talk that those who met them remarked on in the hijackers probably derived from their silent, constant dhikr or repetition of sacred verses. |
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I gave her the address considering that she'd probably become another lurker, and that we'd probably see each other around at parties and make small talk, nothing more. |
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My old habits took over and I started my usual openings with small talk. |
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Lee, never one who can resist a couple of minutes of chit-chat, stopped for small talk and Marcus didn't notice Danielle until she came to stand beside him. |
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As I lazily drove back along the Esplanade, I reflected on all the poor souls huddled around office coffee machines in the city making small talk. |
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Except he doesn't do small talk and he is not stretching his legs. |
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The rest of the night was filled with small talk and other utter nonsense. |
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You might expect charming or at least passable small talk to be a gateway skill for a politician. |
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We were in the receiving line, and people were coming through, and they were making small talk. |
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This nasal, crisp, robotic inner voice wasted no time on small talk. |
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I didn't want to appear like a holier-than-thou fuddy-duddy so I made pleasant small talk with Tonya's date as though I approved of these sort of shenanigans. |
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He is joking with the gaffer, and during the hour of the shoot, goes out of his way to speak to each of the crew, signs autographs, makes small talk. |
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But he doesn't really talk to me that often, and when he does, it's never small talk, just a brief question about using my push broom or something like that. |
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All around us there are other women, seemingly not hurt, making small talk, acting normal, which means happy, not discontent, certainly not devastated. |
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He became a champion lingerer, making small talk, listening to stories, and eating helpings of sweet potato pie. |
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I've seen waitresses throughout California make eyes at him, try to engage him in small talk, even bring him free treats from the kitchen. |
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As he walked briskly into the Situation Room last Wednesday, he characteristically wasted little time on small talk. |
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On this occasion, the demands of parenting led Carben to deputize a seatmate, who feels certain that he missed a few, because of a habit of making small talk whenever the action on the field ceases. |
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On 13 September 1922 Sir Donald Maclean told Harold Laski that Asquith was devoted to bridge and small talk and did not do enough real work. |
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Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob. |
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They are familiar with common expressions and can make polite small talk. |
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There's glamour model Casey Batchelor, celebrity mistress Jasmine Waltz, swinger Luisa Zissman and Dappy, a pop star whose idea of small talk is describing his own appendage in detail. |
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While making small talk with the audience, Demi's greetings were reciprocated with loud screams from the Lovatics. |
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Like him, I will skip the small talk and get straight down to business. |
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Maltby had a perpetual chirrup of amusing small talk. |
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The bishop called me Father Lin, which is my Chinese name and the others called me MisterLin, for I was only a tourist... We exchanged some small talk. |
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He was sitting with his grandmother in her living room, making small talk. |
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Allow time for small talk at the outset, but not too much. |
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He did not feel comfortable joining in community activities, as he had not previously participated in such activities and did not feel he was very good with small talk. |
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This business is not about visiting a company once, and leaving a product catalogue with a price list after partaking of two cups of coffee and some small talk. |
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The conversation is a mixture of felicitations, shoptalk and small talk. |
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When Bush lost the Republican presidential primary in 1980, the thought of dissolving into the small talk and narcotising rituals of Houston suburbia filled him with dread. |
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