They have come to the rescue of executives, a restaurant staff and mothers fed up with children's reducing conversation to two expressions -- "like" and "ya know".
Long, long pauses, trapping men together in a cramped corner of a vast desert, reducing conversation to the common denominators of most young American males: sports, beer drinking records, funny lines from movies, sex.
Far better when Teeuwen takes comedy into uncharted terrain: when he reduces conversation to a symphony of non-verbal sounds, which itself morphs into scat-jazz music; when he staves off the suicidal impulse by gurning and twisting his body into fidgety shapes.
At the same time, the British fixation with the train does its work, reducing conversations about transport to the hoary old subject of rail renationalisation.
This in turn risked reducing conversations about violence.
I feel that they eventually will turn customers off from an entire conversation or industry, and in general reduce the conversation to the lowest common denominator.
Nico Rosberg: "Reduce the conversation... I know what I have to do". The McLarens are still squabbling down the order, albeit on different strategies.
You will read article after article where the authors reduce the conversation to being "pro-union, anti-charter school, pro-charter school, or anti-union".
I used that headline to get your attention because Millennials will only talk politics if we reduce the conversation to nostalgic pop-culture references.
My concern is that, as our communication increasingly takes place online, these developments could eventually reduce our conversations to little more than a series of hashtags and winky faces.
Some students noted that studying alone was an explicit strategy to reduce distracting conversations with others, while others stated that it was simply a habit.
