Sentence examples for failed conversation from inspiring English sources

This failed conversation makes veterans feel even more alienated from society and, in some cases, exacerbates their P.T.S.D. The simple fact is that witnessing killing and destruction doesn't make you feel like a hero.

Divorce: A Failed Conversation In his radical address to Parliament in 1643, "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," John Milton argued that "in God's intention a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and the noblest end of marriage," and that divorce is not only necessary but right when that special conversation fails.

"Foote was a man who never failed in conversation," Boswell says.

A few members of our cast and crew had also been directly affected by failed gay conversation therapy attempts in their own families.

"I've never met anyone else who, without fail, made conversation such a magical event," said one.

(Who knew Roland Barthes was so interested in steak tartare?) Yet without fail, the conversation comes back to one question: What makes steak so tasty?

When, after a while, the conversation failed to find a natural end, Mr. Jarvis resorted to the road warrior's tried-and-true trick: He donned his headphones.

But their contributions to the conversation failed to get it going, and most of the topical references — Hurricane Sandy, Syria, the HSBC money-laundering scandal — felt forced.

Bush administration officials said the conversation failed to resolve the issue of Turkey's desire for its troops to go into northern Iraq.

Not one conversation failed to include joke-swapping about all the celebs we would run into at the grocery store and P.T.A. meetings.

Going on the date in London's St Paul's after losing at the Broncos, Hirst had another uncomfortable 80 minutes or so as the conversation failed to flow.