Kelly tried to help him with the math, and their curious dialogue continued two days later, when Rove insisted several times that Obama's victory wasn't all that impressive and Kelly said, "You keep saying that, but he won, Karl, he won … and that's what the Republicans care about, what the Democrats care about".
Room was easier to write than any of my other books partly because it was literally child's play: I borrowed much of its detail (games, idioms, observations, snatches of curious dialogue) from our son, who was five at the time I was drafting it.
Some of the season's most prominent films, including Frances Ha, Before Midnight, and Exhibition (which recently opened the Locarno film festival), show the influence of the French director, who died in 2010, and whose lithe and playful work extended the possibilities of a certain kind of small-scale, psychologically curious, dialogue-led drama.
Today, Monro is probably best known for a curious little dialogue-poem, Overheard On a Saltmarsh, an inconclusive contest between a nymph and a goblin who covets her green glass beads.
He is curious about the dialogue, which Mr. Gibson chose to render entirely in Aramaic and Latin, not exactly the hottest languages on the planet.
Curious to open dialogues between absence, presence, memory, and existence, she began using art to investigate the stories held within.
It is a well-organized encyclopedia of universal knowledge in the form of a dialogue between Theorus, a curious theoretician who observers the world and Mystagogus, a master and guide.
(The lingering Britishisms are especially curious because other aspects of the text and dialogue are Americanized — even the novel's British edition uses "z" rather than "s" in words like "apologize" and "publicized").
(Witness the curious return of Jeremiah Wright to the national dialogue).
His streamlined, clever comic dialogue brightens up a story of a curious rabbit whose arrival threatens the dynamic of a family's pets.
Re-photographing crumpled or 'sculpted' prints creates a curious illusion of depth, which is useful in initiating this dialogue.
