Finally, a cold call is a real-time vocal interaction with a genuine stranger.
Unscrupulous advertisers have begun using the medium, often disguising their marketing messages as genuine conversations from strangers.
Even so, compliments, insults, banter, smiles and genuine conversations among strangers are part of the city's noise, its stimulus, its charm.
For those who weren't related by blood, the level of open, genuine solidarity with strangers through music and dancing is the kind of picture Detroit needs to keep painting.
But the excitement in that room full of strangers is genuine, and infectious, and you might just hear a story, at the table or in the food, that you wouldn't have otherwise.
His elevator story, if genuine, and if the stranger was not kidding, illustrates the quasi-celebrity status of Bush, who won the Heisman Trophy at Southern California in 2005.
We never forget the times people show compassion toward us, whether it's a genuine smile from a stranger when we look down, or a friend who surprises us with ice cream and a movie after we've just been dumped.
All the canines responded more to their owners' genuine yawns than to those of strangers, as the poodle, Kikumaru, is doing above.
And from the deep-dive discussion of the plot to the soundtrack, the endless memes and a new star in the shape of Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things provided a genuine 2016 TV moment.
From the deep-dive discussion of the plot to the soundtrack, the title graphics, the endless memes and a new star in the shape of Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things provided a genuine 2016 TV moment.
