My engagement with the conversation however altered, I physically softened, rested my hands in my lap and my note taking basically ceased.
"We never imagined," McCarthy says, "that conversation would alter both of our careers".
The researchers focused on the tendency of people in conversation to alter their pitch, volume, pace and other characteristics of speech to emulate one another.
Power today is more about influence, about changing the game, about redirecting the conversation, about altering the way we see the world and the way we live in it.
This because in order for the conversation to alter one's thinking or concepts, we must first experience them as the other does, and therefore need to "fall into", rather than conduct, our conversations.
It was a conversation-altering breakthrough.
Scores of chefs and dining establishments have altered the conversation in the years since 1996, and the restaurant needs to adjust "to what the crowd has developed into," said Michael Stillman, 32, a Brown University graduate who is overseeing each element of the transformation.
Kerry's comment altered the conversation, making it about whether Republicans want to torpedo nuclear talks with Iran.
In 1977, the killing of a Mexican-American veteran by three Houston police officers sparked a violent rebellion in the Latino community that altered the conversation on community-police relations in the city.
Even if they think they're just making pocket money from the things they'd talk about anyway, their conversations will become inevitably altered by the presence of commercial influences.
