We reach for them first thing after sex, in the middle of the night, while using the bathroom, in the middle of dinner and, increasingly, in church.
The seating plans for dinners became increasingly complicated and the openings more lavish, as the times demanded.
My ex-boyfriend and I found our dinners getting increasingly quiet as we ran out of things to discuss or questions to ask one another.
As Bill Moyers put it so well in his recent keynote speech to the Common Cause anniversary dinner, it is increasingly possible for "oligarchs and plutocrats to secretly buy our elections and consolidate their hold on the corporate state".
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, was the only one of the three leading Republican contenders to mention the issue at the Lincoln Day dinner, pressing an increasingly restrictive view.
Indeed, now that the country boasts 36 billionaires and a roaring stock market up 36% this year, dropping several thousand rupees on dinner has become increasingly common.
At dinner, Maloin is increasingly irascible, addressing Henriette brusquely and arguing with Camélia.
In the aftermath of the Gridiron Dinner, Foraker was increasingly ostracized, both politically and socially.
Over the years, Colt brother dinner table gatherings grew increasingly civilized, although vestiges of the mealtime strategies honed in childhood have occasionally led to trouble in the wider world.
"Then the killer-buyers come," he said, referring to the auction low-bidders who regularly send some of the most gallant-looking horses to slaughter as dog food for Americans and, increasingly, as dinner entrees for Europeans and Asians.
