Sentence examples for discussions as if from inspiring English sources

The staff is universally charming but not universally clued in; announcing that you have a reservation can result in long whispered discussions, as if this were an entirely new concept.

The phrase "be proactive" seemed to resonate throughout the plenary lectures, workshops, panels and informal discussions as if it were the theme of this year's retreat.

The essay advertises itself as "cleaning house" with respect to the "tired accusations and ritual defenses" typical of Middle-East discussions, as if, in effect, it will even-handedly take on the "clichés" of both sides.

This post is not going to be one of many expressions of idyllic nostalgia, insisting on the existence of a "good old days" characterized by a "Leave it to Beaver -esque society of warm relationships and lively dinner taBeaver -esquensocietyf such a time ever existed).

Surviving this, any viewer was well primed to receive even a halfhearted masquerade of reasoned discussion as if it were the second coming of John Locke.

Dodd-Frank and Simpson-Bowles were lobbed into the discussion as if every voter had mastered the finer points of banking reform and deficit reduction.

Dominic Cooke dispenses the lines perfectly in a production that begins by looking mechanical - characters scatter and come together around a discussion as if they were iron filings - but then builds and changes.

Like many of those men, Roiphe would like to short-circuit this larger discussion, as if everything that doesn't meet the legal definition of crime were trivial, and any objection to it mere paranoia.

There was a weary tone to much of the discussion, as if the Heideggerians, having been pushed around for too long, might at last have reached the end of their tolerance.

In particular, the Obama administration's call for higher revenue through increased taxes on high incomes — which actually goes considerably beyond just letting the Bush tax cuts for the top end expire — gets treated with an unmistakable sneer in much political discussion, as if it were a trivial thing, more about staking out a populist position than it is about getting real on red ink.

We frame the discussion as if people are talent.