For Amis, the Booker, which he has never won, is a 'kind of literary Big Brother' and the award dinner an occasion when writers 'sweat with greed and egocentricity'.
The restaurant Nate works at (and where Andrea, Doug and Lily eat dinner on occasion) is in TriBeCa.
She's turned out to be a great cook and prepares dinner on occasion, which helps me out and provides her with a tool of self-sufficiency -- something teens sorely need in these days of helicopter parenting.
I made a decision to be more childlike: to relax and enjoy the season, whether that meant singing inappropriately loud when no one else was, letting my kids eat Christmas cookies for dinner (on occasion), and worrying a little less about how, what and where Santa did his Christmas shopping.
Its $16.99 cost at Astor, 399 Lafayette Street Fourth Streett), makes it feasible for brunch, dinner, special occasions and parties.
He admitted he had been reluctant to go to the recent G20 summit as previous meetings had merely proved to be "breakfast and dinner-eating occasions".
The Oliviers remained favourites of Churchill, attending dinners and occasions at his request for the rest of his life; and, of Leigh, he was quoted as saying, "By Jove, she's a clinker".
Lunch — dinner, drinks, any occasion — with Christopher always was.
Downing Street called the dinner a private occasion where most guests were family friends.
When he recruited tailback Nick Maddox in Kannapolis, N.C., dinner was the occasion of the sales pitch.
