I think I'll have the trout, I told the waiter, for it was now my turn to order, but all through the elegant dinner I kept thinking of the arrows forever nearing the pale, quivering flesh of St. Sebastian a fleet of them perpetually halving the tiny distances to his body, tied to a post with rope, even after the archers had packed it in and gone home.
They're smart and good-natured, and only one of them gave me the creeps a pretty good-looking middle-aged man dressed like Leland Palmer in a tight turtleneck and blazer, who kept winking at me all through the banquet dinner even though his wife was sitting right next to him.
We got through the dinner of walleye and pilaf.
Walking through the dinner hall is like walking through a smelly hippie's wet fart.
As his mind circumnavigated the possibilities of what to say next — working through a catalog of all the dinner-party anecdotes, intimate conversations, personal thoughts and public statements of a lifetime as an observer of fame and power – he alighted back where he started.
But all through dinner the flyer sat ticking at the bottom of her bag like a bomb about to go off.
The evening went well, though all through dinner the Starr report was being faxed to us by a friend: pages — four hundred of them — kept churning out of the machine, just a room away.
The evening went well, though all through dinner the Starr report was being faxed to us by a friend: pages four hundred of them kept churning out of the machine, just a room away.
Tavern is a big, complicated restaurant, the duo's most ambitious yet, open in one guise or another from breakfast all through the afternoon and the dinner hour until late night.
Chef shouting at his wife all the way through dinner and the service was a circus act.
The painting had distracted Robert all through dinner, this buzzy black hole on the wall.
