We usually meet at dinners or celebrations but one time I said I had something serious I wanted to talk with him about, and we met at the Carlyle Hotel.
The meeting seems contrived, and it is – the two really met at dinner, according to Brittain's memoir, and there was no book-throwing rage or patronising putdown.
The analyst I met at dinner told me he had recently attended a meeting of almost 50 executives at his bank, only one of which was female – and even she had just returned from maternity leave.
We met at dinner the other night.
We mus have been wearing the same smile later in the day, for a man we met at dinner that night took offense at it.
It has a lazy, self-indulgent air that includes walk-ons for whatever celebrity Apatow met at dinner the night before shooting.
His Napoleonic belief in his destiny was not focused on fashion until, at 29, he met at dinner Yves Saint Laurent, the fragile prodigy aged 22 who had suddenly inherited the house of Christian Dior.
After meeting at dinner parties in the 1980s, where they discovered a shared respect for Ronald Reagan, they developed into the kind of friends who lend one another help, trade accolades and attend each other's weddings.
You rather imagine her, nose pressed up against the glass, longing to roar along with the Duchess of Devonshire (whom, she informs us, she once met at dinner), but not quite knowing how.
