These are writers who, in very different but equally stylized ways, portray conversation as a series of scattered shots in the dark.
The Houston Chronicle Bobby Hankinson agreed, and said of their "debate over the existence of bisexuality" that "it was refreshing to see Glee portray a conversation like it really goes down in reality.
The Herald portrayed the conversation as a shakedown; the notes suggest a contentious discussion.
Mr. Boucher portrayed the conversation on Thursday night as cordial, saying Mr. Powell thanked Mr. Gul "for the positive response that they had given" to the American request.
The draft of that memorandum portrayed a conversation Mr. Duncan had with Richard A. Causey, Enron's chief accounting officer, about a news release the energy company was planning to issue regarding its third-quarter earnings.
After offering no defense testimony at all in his first trial, he testified before jurors for seven days, proclaiming his innocence and portraying his taped conversations about matters like who he might appoint to the Senate as merely brainstorming, not some sinister plot.
Wiretap conversations portrayed Mr. Seagal's longtime Hollywood producer, Julius R. Nasso, as an eager participant in demands that Mr. Seagal pay the Mafia $150,000 a movie, and even suggesting that Mr. Ciccone needed to get tougher with the actor: "You got to get, you really gotta get down on him".
These documents and conversations portrayed the research project as following the logical positivist model of research in which the researchers have almost absolute power over the research rather than the participatory approach we were attempting to utilize and had explained several times.
Mr. bin Laden was stripped of his Saudi citizenship in 1994, but his background remains a subject of intense discomfort for Saudi officials, who in private conversations tend to portray Egyptians like Ayman al-Zawahiri as Al Qaeda's most radical force.
This lyrical movement portrays a warm conversation between the composer and his friend Jaeger, who by Elgar's account, offered valuable artistic guidance throughout a long partnership.
Plato's dramatic dialogues engage their readers by portraying characters in conversation, asking questions and testing out philosophical positions rather than insisting dogmatically on particular theories.
