There is nothing more tedious than an evening spent discussing every dish eaten in minute detail".
On a pragmatic level, ounce for ounce, house parties cost revelers less than an evening spent in a bar.
After an evening spent discussing the city's problems with us, Pixie Reiss, a schoolmate of my wife, Betsey, called me to say: "Don't forget the grace.
In an evening spent giving thanks pre-emptively to a man who will be on the scene until November, it's small wonder that Christmas should come early as well.
After an evening spent caught up in the vivid particulars of social life — a Christmas party, a public speech, a surge of unrequited longing for his wife — the main character watches the snow drifting downward and follows suit, into a calm and lovely melancholy.
"Would you like to come in for a coffee?" is, of course, a post-ironic euphemism for "Would you care for a good seeing-to?" But it is usually muttered late at night, after an evening, or at least part of an evening, spent together.
After an evening spent caught up in the vivid particulars of social life a Christmas party, a public speech, a surge of unrequited longing for his wife the main character watches the snow drifting downward and follows suit, into a calm and lovely melancholy.
Waugh's second lover was met on an evening spent at Triton's table.
Full events details are here, but head down to Camp on the City Road side of Old Street roundabout tomorrow night, and you can enjoy an evening spent in the company of Elijah & Skilliam, Roska (pictured), Reecha & Jon Rust and a bunch of other skilled operators ALL FOR FREE.
And then we stumble out into the night, aglow with the fun of an evening spent bonding with strangers in time-honoured fashion over a shared love of food and drink.
On the opening night of the 2007 season at the Metropolitan Opera, the weather was clear and mild: perfect conditions for an evening spent watching "Lucia" in one of the nearly three thousand folding chairs that had been set up on Lincoln Center plaza, or the fifteen hundred seats in Times Square.
