By this time, the conversation had moved from the kitchen to the living room of the big, old, handsome house.
I was escorted into the lounge, a softly lighted room full of big cushy armchairs facing a crackling fire.
When Joe Kennedy — the 33-year-old freshman congressman from Massachusetts and the most natural politician in the clan since his great-uncles and his grandfather, Bobby — walks into a room full of big shots, heads turn.
Monday saw the illuminating leaks from presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in which he was caught on film detailing his campaign strategies to a room full of big, private donors.
No simulation will ever enable you to walk into a dressing room full of big, physically conditioned, hairy arsed bastards, and immediately be their boss, but they have an understanding of certain elements of pressure.
In Europe, London is the biggest, cleanest, best-lit room of the Big Three exchanges.
It was a full-throated one that generations of Miami players have been singing in the locker rooms of big-time powers after victories: "Love and honor to Miami, forever and a day".
The settings of Mr. Clinton's evening remarks are also more conducive to casual chatter: the dining room of a big donor, the back of Air Force One, a remote country church.
I can remember overhearing a heated conversation in the conference room of a big firm.
With this budget, you could get a speaker for every single room of a big house.
