18) Context: You cook dinner and leave dishes in the sink.
(I don't want to appear ungrateful: I was also looking forward to seeing our host, my friend William Fiennes, but I already had signed copies of both of his books, so in the context of this dinner party he was pretty much an irrelevance).
Alice had what I once described as an "instinctual attraction for avoided subjects" — a description I used in the context of a dinner we once had with a man described by the friends who brought him along as a "sugar baron".
Perry's cracks landed well in the context of the dinner, where speakers are encouraged to playfully skewer themselves and their rivals.
In the context of a dinner party, I think they were way better than the ravioli would have been; those would probably have wound up tasting too much like potato-onion pierogi, and that could have engendered a desire for second helpings, and everyone's appetite for the main course might have flown out the window.
And he was a little scary, at least in a dinner party context.
Inmates' final meal requests can get rather bizarre -- single olives, buckets of ice cream, gratuitous chicken and strawberry platters -- so in that context Gissendaner's last dinner isn't that out there.
In much the same way that many people enjoy a cold beer when on a couch and in front of a TV, you may find that you're better able to enjoy wine in the privacy of your home at the end of the day, or in the context of a romantic dinner with many other delectable foods present, or in a social setting when spirits are jovial, music is playing and you're feeling more adventurous.
5) Context: You get home from dinner out at a restaurant and a housemate asks what you ate for dinner.
And it felt real to put the collection in a context that felt meaningful, over dinner at a table with people you may or may not know but you have a shared interest with.
