Over forty years, their friendship has been nurtured through letters, conversations in the Ramallah hills, and, initially, a studious avoidance of politics.
Twitter is no more good or bad for business than telephones, letters, conversations, or pies in the face.
Some of Altenberg's pieces betray the qualities of note, list, aphorism, anecdote, letter, or conversation, while others come off as marvelous, fragmentary renditions of the personal essay.
"The ease of electronic communications has made people freer and looser with their comments," says Ray Gustini, a partner with Nixon, Peabody LLP in Washington, D.C. "And the risk of dispersal has grown geometrically compared to a letter or conversation".
Learn the linguistic structures of a newspaper/magazine article, formal/informal letter, casual conversation or even advertisements to widen your grasp of the language, as you are available to encounter these forms of media on a daily basis.
We know nothing of his private thoughts; we have no diaries, no letters, no conversation books.
But an eclectic and discriminating circle of friends (Dorothy Thompson, Floyd Dell, who was the co-editor of The Masses, and Hoover) prized her for the wit of her letters and conversation.
As Churchill's daughter, Mary Soames, discloses in a perceptive and elegant introduction, Violet found some difficulty in accepting his marriage in 1908 to Clementine Hozier and was rather rude about her in letters and conversation.
Rose Pipes Up Of all the things that were said or done last week, the most comical might have been Pete Rose's complaint that the commissioner's failure to answer his calls or his letters seeking conversation on his continued banishment from baseball was unethical.
After four years of privately denouncing the popular nature writers in letters and conversation, Roosevelt decided to weigh in publicly; while alerting Burroughs that he had finally broken his silence, he wrote: "I know that as President I ought not to do this".
