Sentence examples for competitive conversation from inspiring English sources

Pretzels and peanuts were all that could be procured, and she gobbled them up in such a way that the thoughtful, slightly competitive conversation they'd been having before was not retrievable.

This ensures that at least twice a week, the office is treated to the spectacle of a competitive conversation that always results in deadlock as no one can agree on who is suffering the most.

The competitive conversation centered on who had gotten invites to Graydon, Elton and Guy's Oscar parties.

He plays the fool but we quite often have competitive conversations about how many As we got at school: he beat me – I've got three As at A-level but he has four or five.

The piano and violin introduce themselves by trading rhapsodic flourishes and soon proceed to a competitive musical conversation.

Mr Mack said that there were no women standups on panel shows because women are less competitive in conversation and less likely to want to show off.

But anyone who thinks that women aren't competitive in conversation and don't like showing off needs to watch Katie Hopkins' appearance on the Friday Night Project.

Gus Solomons Jr. and Patrick Ferreri performed with the cellist Chris Lancaster onstage in a work in progress that juxtaposed Mr. Solomons's long, expressive arms with the younger Mr. Ferreri's lithe torso to suggest a playfully, subtly competitive dance conversation on age.

A couple of years ago, Mark Muro, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, noticed, along with some of his colleagues, that when politicians and businesspeople debated how the U.S. could be more economically competitive, the conversations tended to focus on promoting certain innovative industries.

Though at school she and I used to compete fiercely, the only competitive moment in our conversation concerned whose father had the worst table manners, hers or mine.

Conversation was a competitive sport; humor was meant to draw blood.