Such as when a group of well-dressed men meet in an office, one spies a beautiful woman through the window, so another goes to a cupboard to fetch his rifle … The film is full of scenes like this, most set around the characters gathering for a dinner that never arrives.
Every so often, they demonstrated their unflinching fidelity by gathering for a reunion dinner.
(It's hard to imagine their descendants gathering for a celebratory dinner at a steakhouse).
Chauffeurs had just dropped off precious cargo — the dark-suited finance ministers of Germany, France, the United States and the four other wealthy nations that form the Group of 7. The officials were gathering for a working dinner to talk about the swirling European debt crisis, which, despite their concerted efforts, seems to worsen by the day.
That first sentence, and the description of Manly Night that follows — a roster of carefully curated men gathering for a weekly dinner and black-and-white movie, complete with a special toast and other ritual flourishes — subverts the expectations established by previous installments in the Hef canon.
These family routines could include gathering together for dinner, game night, or a recreational outing.
Although my mother did all her own cooking, I, too, grew up in a house where meals were an occasion and Saturday night was heralded by the scrunch of gravel and the blur of adult voices gathering for another of my parents' dinner parties.
At the Waldorf-Astoria, in Midtown, seventeen hundred guests were gathering for the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation benefit dinner, a white-tie fund-raiser for the Catholic charities named in honor of Al Smith, a former governor and the first Catholic candidate on a major-party Presidential ticket.
In Red Hook, "even a small social gathering over for dinner was a problem.
As the Thanksgiving celebration approaches, many posts discuss how – or even whether – to face gathering around the dinner table with family members who voted for Trump.
