Many scenes featured documentary recordings of real conversations in place of scripted dialogue this too would become a signature of Bakshi's.
THAT'S how too many campaigns and legislative battles are waged these days: with bile instead of reason, catcalls in place of conversation, and the basest of instincts.
Start with a drink, which may help erase the image of the white-jeaned British tourists struggling with their wheelie bags near the hostess stand in the restaurant's front, of the long table of office friends near the bar shouting at one another in place of conversation.
He's been determined to abandon the highly reductive and periodically florid binary rhetoric of "Tony Abbott versus the death cult" in favour of a political message that seeks to land the national conversation in a place of harmony and proportionality.
I'm reading this to you in place of a conversation Sonia and I had about a photograph of two politicians kissing, a photograph that was painted, a painting that was destroyed, repainted, then repainted multiple times by Sonia in a range of historical styles.
Barkin's Nana exists in some Paul Halternate alternate universe where people can just shout racist invective all the time, in place of actual conversation.
Alleging that someone is being mean carries a lot of emotional weight and if you haven't got your facts sorted, and you accuse rather than express yourself (using "I statements"), then you may make them feel angry or stupid, giving rise to defensiveness in place of a constructive conversation.
I won't be surprised if it becomes one of the more popular apps on each of these platforms, but I pray that it is used sparingly – Slydial may be nice for avoiding awkward conversations, but if people start using this in place of Email or text messages it will become incredibly annoying.
In place of the searching global conversation we need, we have an anaesthetised debate.
It gives your face motion in place of smiling, in a conversation it can also make people repeat themselves.
