Interacting with this way is much more attentionally demanding than the plain phone conversations of their parents' generation.
So to mark the 75th anniversary of Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat – the plain-spoken conversations with Americans that became a hallmark of his presidency, Mr. Reid, the Democratic Senate majority leader, on Wednesday gave his own fireside chat, but with a modern twist.
Available only online at www.mundanebehavior.org, the journal's inaugural issue (a second issue is planned next month) features articles on the social implications of male facial hair, the function of casual conversation ("plain talk") in Israeli culture and Japanese elevator etiquette.
The most eagerly watched thing in the cable industry these days isn't a fledgling network or a cutting-edge drama it's plain old-fashioned conversation.
She has written three books: Women's Roles and Statuses the World Over; Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight; and Conversation with My Daughter About Human Trafficking.
Still, the mayor has made it plain in private conversations with other politicians and civic leaders that he prefers the City Council speaker.
Notice that the professor's sentence needn't include some implicit ceteris-paribus clause in order for his utterance to be true; as this example illustrates, in ordinary conversations, plain old strict generalization sentences are not always used to cover the full range of actual cases.
Martin Kaymer is perhaps the strongest of them, the German's passion for an Olympic appearance perfectly plain, even in brief conversation.
Many of their conversations are plain bizarre: "Did you ever try masturbating?" suggests one crate-dweller to another.
