Sentence examples for clever conversation from inspiring English sources

A dinner with drinking, having fun, clever conversation and innocent flirting is considered a waste of time, and even wrong.

"I always quote the Billy Joel song," he said:No need for clever conversation, I'll take you just the way you are.

As Bobbi entertains their host with clever conversation, Frances takes stock of her large, comfortable home, casing it like a thief.

They were into tony Manhattan-type gatherings, with candles and French wine and testy, clever conversation (you could hear every word from our deck) about Broadway plays or Israel or their favorite Caribbean islands, everyone constantly interrupting everyone else in their bid to impress one another, all in tones that said they weren't.

Her head drops, she looks at her pink slippers, and the clever script, by the extremely clever McDonagh, has this distraught woman start a hell of a clever conversation between the two fluffy creatures on her feet about what she should do.

Luken's sculptures, although simple, even childlike, in form, are enormous, clever conversation pieces.

In order to understand what makes these novels so exceptional, it's better to open any one of them at random, marveling at the precise observations and glistening turns of phrase, not to mention dialogue witty enough to make our own most clever conversations sound like... well, like St. Aubyn's Princess Margaret.

At one point, her novels, with their clever conversations and adulterous intrigues, were synonymous with the now unfashionable "Hampstead novel"; although she did live there for many years and "represented a particular point of view", she points out that she didn't actually set many novels there, as she was worried about identifying her neighbours.

It's disrespectful to abstract our experiences for a clever little conversation.

Can I sustain a hopeful, clever, and fulfilling conversation with myself?

It is as hard to imagine Jeremy Corbyn long sustaining a conversation with clever, overbearing Healey (they overlapped as MPs from 1983 to 1987) as it is to picture David Cameron cross-examining Kremlin "new boy" Mikhail Gorbachev.