Some pianists bristled at her direction, friends say.
Of course, within friendship the influence need not go only one direction: friends influence each other's conceptions of value and how to live.
Santana balks at leaving Brittany behind, and when she and Brittany go out on a dinner date, Santana tries to recruit her, but Brittany is unwilling to leave her New Directions friends.
"I think it's really cool that we've grown apart in the same direction," a friend said to me recently.
Now you have to flick the ball with your fingers/thumbs and try and get it in the "basket". circle) If the ball flies off in the wrong direction, your friend can move their "basket" if they wish.
Fingers pointed in every direction as friends and families accused one another.
So it gives the system something of a jolt to find that, on the issue of EU membership, I seem to be heading in the opposite direction of friends and ex-colleagues such as Alan Johnson, Denis MacShane and Dan Hodges.
And suddenly added to this mix: dozens of wobbly, anxious people plodding along on those heavy blue bikes, with giant bags stuffed into the tiny racks at the front and heads cocked in the direction of friends.
Lynq is a gadget that fixes this problem with an ultra-simple premise: it simply tells you how far and in what direction your friends are, no data connection required.
Perhaps in part because our lives had already shot off in opposite directions, my friend didn't invite me to her wedding, though she did invite me to the reception afterward.
