How strange, this feeling I have that writing about him, even mentioning his death, is a betrayal of some kind, a betrayal of that lifelong conversation between us, of our days together.
Our relationships with computers, in this context, may come to feel more like companionship than sitting down to "use" a device: a lifelong conversation with systems that know many things about us more intimately than most mere people.
The lovers come and go, but over all "City Boy" is a chain of deep friendships and lifelong conversations.
Traditionally, men are supposed to be unwilling to discuss their emotions, but perhaps these generations of older men, born into a buttoned-up era, in lifelong conversations with the women they loved, did come to know themselves better, and now that compass is gone.
If churches would broaden their religious education programming, they could become hubs for robust, diverse, inviting and potentially lifelong conversations about spirituality.
In the second half of the episode, listen to an intimate conversation between lifelong activist Dolores Huerta and her daughter, Juana.
There were four volumes of critical essays, translations from Greek, Italian, Irish and Anglo Saxon, Latin puns, etymological conversations, a lifelong struggle to resist the seduction of iambic pentameters.
Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Ms. Hosein's supervisor at Hartford Seminary and the director of the school's Islamic Chaplaincy Program, said Ms. Hosein, a lifelong Muslim who sprinkles her conversation with references to Buddha and Jesus, is an ideal candidate for military chaplaincy.
This can help you hold your own in conversations with even lifelong die-hards.
On Thursday night, Hillary Clinton, a lifelong Methodist, sat down for a conversation about her faith at Riverside Church, in New York City.
They do it impersonally, with celebrity selfies sent to huge numbers of followers, and they do it intimately, with near-constant conversation within families and lifelong links to friends you might otherwise have lost.
