There was no method in this old model of having separate conversations with different audiences, or more narrow conversations with the overwhelming majority of each party's coalition which were already with you.
When things got tough the Commission's instinct wasn't to narrow the conversation, but rather to broaden it.
I can't bear entering this almost-lightless zone for several hours of narrow, sterile conversations about which kind of cushion.
By framing the issue in this way, the Conservatives have narrowed the conversation, and hope people won't be able to see the wider structural inequalities and economic failings, for which they are responsible.
Narrowing the conversation about diversity to a black-and-white issue, he first downplayed the importance of this year's protests — in past years, black people were "too busy being raped and lynched to care about best cinematographer," he joked — before addressing them directly.
You stand at a counter, Tokyo-train-station style, in this narrow storefront, where conversation is precluded by exhalations of transcendent satisfaction.
As we talked about how a poet must not fear anything, especially his own body, the conversation narrowed from the general to the personal, but Field never flinched, and I followed his lead, at one point even offering up a handful of poems about the asshole to counter Field's notion that it was something that had not been written about.
Choose your own open-ended question, and witness how much you start to learn about others, but whatever you say, please please please never start with, "What do you do?" I've certainly been guilty of this and it really can close people off from having a real conversation, narrowing your chances of truly getting to know who someone is.
I think the new mayor will not limit his conversation to narrow topics and that kind of attitude will hold him in good stead around here".
