The imagined philosophical conversations consist of oracular pronouncements — "Mathematics must be complete".
"Her telephone conversations consisted of a few polite words," he said.
It's a lot like the early days of cell-phone calls, when the simple fact that you were doing what you were doing seemed so amazing that most conversations consisted largely of exclamations about the amazingness of the call.
The crippled love between a father and his grown son - the kind that manifests itself in conversations consisting entirely of 'Yeah' and gentle, nosing 'K?'s - this is the only love that stands a chance in McAdam's bleak world.
But if your private conversations consist of b-wording others, and you are careless enough not to shut the door, speak very quietly or ensure your microphone is off, so that your private words become public words, then you deserve to be held to account for any offence caused.
The women as well as the men hold conversations consisting almost entirely of variations on the F-word, with non-profane language appearing only rarely, and with a slightly embarrassed air, as if it didn't know what it was doing there.
My viewpoint was met with healthy disagreement (as most Jewish conversations consist of), that pointed out that if we raise awareness of a particular event we inherently give creed to the parties responsible for the hate speech.
For many months conversations consisted mostly of repeated and obsessive re-analyses of the piece.
When the "big-shot" stakeholders sit around a table to discuss how to "fix" a failing district, specifically in an inner-city, I wonder what those conversations consist of.
We're sandwiched between a famous mag editor and his chums shrieking, "Aldeburgh!" "Ski-ing!" "The cottage!" and a foursome whose entire conversation consists of fash-hag bitchery.
