In one of the more subdued train cars where the noise level is limited to low-key conversations and electronic beeps from cell phones and other devices, a hedge fund manager waxes nostalgic about the good old days when more people talked to each other on the train and even played cards.
The only buzz is the low-key conversation at tables around the room.
A low-key conversation about the travails of life on the road is sometimes enough to make an overworked ticket agent look the other way.
Until now, the hotel has been visited mainly by in-the-know New Yorkers sharing low-key conversation in the Lobby Bar.
Based on a 2008 short story by T. Coraghessan Boyle (originally published in The New Yorker), "The Lie" unfolds with calm sincerity, every low-key conversation echoing with an unspoken awareness of the pain of compromise.
Similarly, an intriguing low-key conversation between James Bond and a contact in Quantum of Solace is weakened by the fact that it so visibly takes place in an upper class cabin of a Virgin plane with the corporate emblem framed behind 007's shoulder.
The dispute over Mr. Kerry's description of Republicans as "the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen," heard in a low-key conversation with workers in Chicago picked up by a microphone, shadowed his return to Capitol Hill to meet with Democrats.
As we make things side-by-side, we provide the space for low-key conversation, for telling jokes (Anna once declared a lone berry, left on the counter, to be the factory boss: "Okay, every berry, I'm going to say who gets made into jam!"), or for letting comfortable silence envelop us.
"You've only had The Daily Show for one commercial break white folks ain't decided if they like you yet!" Comedian Kevin Hart, who brought Noah a box of ties, participated in a low-key conversation that wasn't quite an interview.
The atmosphere is low key, made to facilitate easy conversation.
While as fas as we could tell no one got Tasered in the butt, the low-key, affable conversations of "The Gavin Newsom Show" seemed like the kind of thing everyone involved would probably be doing anyway (just over lamb lollipops and Pinot Noir at Balboa Cafe instead of what looked like a unused corner of the set for the "Colbert Report").
