It was cheesy after-dinner material, vaguely inappropriate — and utterly effective.
If you want something that's a little more involved and definitely dinner party material, try quickly pickling the sardines.
(Even Rush Limbaugh is beginning to sound like Georgetown dinner-party material).
The book, though quite funny and extremely readable, is not at heart a novel at all but a collection of stand-up material, dinner party arguments and anecdotes strung together by having "he said" typed on the end of every sentence.
The Chinese couple who run this no-name restaurant were willing to let me go into the kitchen and assemble the raw materials for dinner or lunch -- noodles or rice, squash, any unknown vegetable I saw, onions, garlic, lamb or eggs or chicken.
Millions of families are struggling with the hidden costs of sending children to state school, with many forced to take out loans or scrimp on food and heating to pay for basics such as dinners, uniforms, course materials and trips.
The fine art of shaping the human material for a dinner party has always stumped me, perhaps because human beings are far less reliable than food.
Its ten-episode season arrived on Thanksgiving, the holiday on which the heroine hosts her three male lovers for dinner, in both the source material and the tenth-episode epilogue to the show.
Robin wanted some material for a U.J.A. dinner honoring Billy Crystal.
Little said he hasn't yet settled on his material for the April correspondents' dinner.
During an official visit, when the plane lands and the dinner with local influential figures begins, the material aspect is merely implied.
