A man is taking a lady to dinner as an obligation, since she had always been nice to his wife.
By John O'Hara The New Yorker, January 12 , 1946P. 22 A man is taking a lady to dinner as an obligation, since she had always been nice to his wife.
A typical Saturday schedule for my twelve-year-old self looked like this: 8 to 11 A.M., cartoons; 11 A.M. to noon, Pro Bowler's Association; noon to 3 P.M., Notre Dame football; 3 to 6 P.M., Movie of the Week; 6 to 8 P.M., Dinner, chores, family obligations, personal hygiene; 9 to 10 P.M., "The Love Boat"; 10 to 11 P.M. "Fantasy Island"; 11 P.M.: bed.
Some of this is expected from the women of this show, feigning sympathy as they actually belittle their very ill friend for not making the effort to put on a full face of drag before dragging herself out of bed to make a requested appearance at a group dinner (no doubt a contractual obligation to the Bravo show).
Dinner parties are complicated things, where obligation and gratitude collide and overlap — and sometimes crash and burn.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation.
Ordóñez had made dinner plans with Tejera, but Tejera had family obligations.
He seemed to regard this smallish dinner of mediacrats hosted by Tom Brokaw as a trying obligation.
He seemed to regard this smallish dinner of mediacrats hosted by Tom Brokaw as a trying obligation..
"When you accept a dinner invitation," she once said, "you have a moral obligation to be amusing".
