Senior year especially — and most especially during the thesis crunch — I brought my dessert there for a brief respite between dinner and study.
Every five minutes to look at the clock and then I'm rushing to give him his dinner… [With respite] I feel relaxed.
My family, as then constituted – mother, sister, baby brother – gathered for an inexpensive dinner and a few hours of respite from our house during another divorce.
Mr. Ronco predicted that Yelo would appeal to commuters who want to stay in Manhattan for a late dinner and to club-goers seeking respite before a night out.
Ugh, grabbing what we needed to pack lunches and make dinners was less and less of a respite.
Second, as the unemployment rate inches ever closer to 10percentt, an oceanfront respite filled with tee times and dinner dates could be seen as out-of-touch with the economic hardship facing many Americans.
It's a very inward scene, old-fashioned in a way, where people are relaxing over dinner with friends, engaged in conversation, and enjoying some respite from the fast-moving world outside the walls.
The perfect respite from the summer heat was a garden dinner potluck on the spacious lawn of the Glendale home of Kathy and Kent Lee.
Sometimes you need something more practical, a vehicle that could still be used to bring a kid to piano lessons or to take two infants to grandma's for a blessed three-day reprieve, while you and your honey go somewhere for a nice respite filled with adult-only pleasures like eight hours of uninterrupted sleep and dinner by candlelight.
For workers who toiled under harsh conditions, lunchtime was a respite, with hearty portions of rice matched with whatever meat was left over from dinner the night before.
Under the circumstances, New York must have been a welcome respite for Ahmadinejad, and not only because of the ready availability of an affordable chicken dinner.
