Inevitably, the looming election got many people involved in the same conversation, except for Brenda's goddaughter, who'd discovered that Ed Mitchum had attended Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she was studying, and pulled him aside to talk.
In an interview last spring, George, who knew Obama from Chicago and also met him after his 2008 election, said Obama was always open to conversations, except they never produced results for the bishops.
According to Bouvier, Rybolovlev avoided eye contact for the entire conversation, except at one moment.
What is known is that there will be no red carpet or V.I.P. room, no sit-down dinner and scant opportunity for one-on-one conversation with Mr. Obama, except for those who make it to Mr. Geffen's home.
They chatted for a moment, but nothing came of the conversation except unspoken desire, on both their parts.
The private conversation is similar to the public conversation, except maybe more admirable.
He spent three weeks in isolation in the heat, sleeping on the concrete, denied exercise and communication, except for conversations with the chaplain.
Another did not see his father for practically the first 12 years of his life — except for webcam conversations — because he was in China while his father was toiling as an illegal immigrant in a New York restaurant.
Except for one conversation between two scientists, he completely leaves out the possibility of indigenous Martian microbes.
But except for one conversation I overheard about the "imminent collapse" of the health care system, the boat didn't seem quite so anxious.
