In some homes in Beverly Hills and San Francisco, it is offered at the start of a dinner party with the customary ease of a host offering a chilled Bombay Sapphire martini.
"I'm good" does sound more ego-directed than "No, thank you", but it could be seen as reassuring a host offering a drink: I require nothing but your company.
An example of their use would be a host offering his guests bread and salt served on a rushnik.
Without a hosting offering a tongue-in-cheek routine throughout the night and with no comedic digressions or skits, the show just let the Oscars be the Oscars.
But he is a courteous host, offering me tea or an Italian frizzante mineral water he is keen on.
But when our family of four entered the cool lobby of Hotel la Polvora, one of Granada's many remodeled colonial homes, with a friendly host offering fresh orange juice and a teal pool beckoning us from the garden courtyard, I remembered what I had been thinking.
He had said it so much like a genial host offering his guest the comfortable chair that I had to stop myself from saying "Thanks".
Schooled in all the best prisons in Vietnam, including what was later known as the Hanoi Hilton, where John McCain spent five years, and Poulo Condore, the Devil's Island where, Tho says, two-thirds of his fellow-inmates died before he was released in 1945, General Tho is a war-hardened opponent, who today is an affable host offering his American visitor tea and fruit.
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It was at this conference too that the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas engaged in his own Surrealist happening: walking around the galleries, he served as host, offering viewers a cup of boiled string and asking with theatrical politeness if they would prefer their cup strong or weak.
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