Sentence examples for The present conversation from inspiring English sources

Finch herself considered it such a piece of good fortune she did not know how to offer it into the present conversation, here where each woman's miseries were being laid out across the table like delicacies, to be sampled.

Two kinds of voices dominate the present conversation about the 60's: those who condemn the utopianism of the time as a totalitarian delusion, and those who sentimentally endow it with a moral purity unknown to today's era of rampant materialism and cynicism about politics.

If I'm talking about selling, persuading, and negotiating, you might get an image of a past experience or something you were told about salespeople that would take you out of the present conversation.

Focus on the present conversation.

If you're talking to someone shy, try to make them laugh and make them comfortable, because though they may not be active in the present conversation, you want to leave them with the impression you're a nice person to talk to, so that next time, they will be more comfortable around you.

Well, the Harvard psychologists noted that, after sex, the two activities during which we are most fully in the present are conversation and exercise.

With an epigraph from Freud comparing the mind to a landscape in which all that ever was still persists, The Eternal City offers eloquent testimony to the struggle to make sense of the present through conversation with the past.

Future advancements aside, the present fertility conversation is still lacking, Beim says; confusion, high-costs, and discouraging taboos often leave women to traverse the fertility landscape in the dark.

"I believe firmly that artists have been at the forefront of presenting conversation," says Sergant. "Artists have the ability to take complex social issues and distill them down into powerful visual language". Animator and painter Carlos Ramos says his offering has "a giant Godzilla blowing rainbows of love out his face.

A dedicated dialectician, Ms. von Trotta forgoes the typical historical reconstruction and instead tries to put the past and the present literally into conversation.

The five sections comprising the book propose useful ideational constellations, generating a trans-historical (i.e. non-linear/anti-chronological) interplay of excerpted artist writings, critical texts, curatorial frameworks and theoretical discourses from the start of the 1960s to the present, enlivening the conversation about what it means to be situational.