Even as we are conversing about the wonderfulness of this possibility, however, I am thinking: never gonna happen.
I found myself shedding the role of boss and becoming more of a friend; after all, we were conversing and laughing as equals.
Whenever they meet on the show, their exchanges are vagrant, ethereal, unhurried, as if they were conversing in a limbo borrowed from a play by Samuel Beckett.
"It is very nice of you," Mr. Koch replied, as if the two were conversing in his living room, not in front of Mr. Bloomberg and a bank of television cameras and reporters.
The cellphone users often speak loudly, so, when they answer their phones, I respond aloud, in normal tones, as if the phone user were conversing with me.
Eventually, of course, they became famous for a kind of virtuosic kitsch: grandiose, emotional playing, embellished with glissandi, spectacular arpeggios and a back-and-forth communication that often made it seem as if the pianos themselves were conversing.
The brothers — both heavyset, with close-cropped brown hair and sweetly sheepish demeanors — were conversing, as they do every day, about Dwarf Fortress, the computer game they began devising in 2002.
"I come here twice a week," she said, as though we'd been conversing.
I'd later fall into bed feeling improved but also depleted, as if we'd been conversing at a higher altitude, where the air was thin.
I shook his hand and spoke slowly as if we had been conversing for hours.
