Stoppard's work has long focused on grand, existential themes, so the subject is fitting: when conversation turns to the Hard Problem, even the most stubborn rationalists lapse quickly into musings on the meaning of life.
(How fitting that "The Conversation's" editor and sound designer, Walter Murch, would end up reconstructing the Orson Welles film).
The integration of once-startup Yammer into the Leviathan that is Microsoft was one of the many fitting topics of conversation between Sacks and Mike Arrington on stage today.
In seven minutes, Mr. Greenhaus ticked off references to Phish songs like "Backwards Down the Number Line, Fastst Enough for You" and "Free," each fitting enough to the conversation to glide right over the head of Mr. Kudlow.
I thought it was a fitting to end to our conversation because after the birth, a whole new chapter would begin.
In some ways, the Brooks lecture was a fitting end note to a conversation earlier in the day at the forum where I gathered with a dozen education, business, think-tank leaders for a spirited discussion on the state of the American higher-ed system.
As the row over the BBC's gender pay gap escalated last month, I found it fitting that most of my conversations were taking place in a very specific forum.
In some ways, Salt Lake City was a fitting frame for the interfaith conversations on climate change.
However you come down in the conversation, it's a fitting simile for 2003 on the PGA Tour.
Handsome decor, subtle lighting, intimate dining spaces provided by well-planned upholstered partitions and, as always, dazzling flowers -- all make a fitting backdrop for the civilized hum of conversation and for dining on some brilliantly executed dishes.
You can decide for yourself which is a bigger pain, but to make it easier we've transcribed some of the conversation to a medium more fitting for break-ups in 2014: the text message.
