Sentence examples for matchmaking in which from inspiring English sources

Her biographer, Virginia Surtees, writes that although Cavendish was "no beauty, she had wit, intelligence, and shrewdness; her sharp eye missed little but in high croak and spirits viewed with tolerance the world of drums, dandies, gossip, and matchmaking in which she moved".

The movie's early scenes observe an excruciating, mordantly funny matchmaking ritual in which Zaza is presented to an eligible (and arrogant) 17-year-old girl, while the parents of the prospective bride and groom chatter tensely in another room.

Performances were interspersed with fun exercises, like a five-minute break to introduce one another to fellow audience members and a matchmaking session, in which the emcees invited single people to the stage to make a pitch for why someone should date them.

In another episode scheduled for early this season, the book store run by Lily's sister, Judy, tries to pump up business by creating a matchmaking club called "BookLovers," in which each participant wears a tag designating his or her favorite volume.

With one segment of society still barred from marriage, how about Meet the Bishop, a matchmaking show for gay Church of England worshippers and clerics, in which the winning couple can live together but agree not to have sex?

Seventy-five executives from Nascar sponsor companies met at the daylong get-together, which included a "speed dating" component in which Nascar executives, in true matchmaking mode, encouraged attendees to circulate and meet someone new every 15 minutes.

Today, however, matchmaking has warped into a commercial free-for-all in which marriage is often viewed as an opportunity to leap up the social ladder or to proclaim one's arrival at the top.

Ms. Testani and others in the matchmaking business say that January and February are months in which the lonely and dateless from Avenue A to Alaska intensify their search for a mate.

Chemistry.com's increasingly aggressive tactics reflect the heightened competition for customers in the online matchmaking business, which generates nearly $650 million a year in sales.

Peter DuBois directs the play, in which a newlywed couple try their hand at matchmaking.

One offensive episode from the original opera, in which a bourgeois Jewish family squabbles over souvenirs, bowel movements and matchmaking, was deleted from the 1993 Nonesuch recording and is omitted here.