The moment comes by common assent, by a shared appraising of all the people remaining in the bar and all the forces around them -- the darkness of the windows, the breath of the staff.
It took some persuasion before Ms. Honoré would talk to the filmmakers, but she eventually assented and even shared letters that Mr. Curtis wrote to her, heard in voice-over in the film.
Good prose, after all, relates to our shared essence: we know it when we read it, we assent to it, we get it.
But at our instigation and with our assent, it also herds us into tribes of common thought and shared temperament, amplifying the timeless human tropism toward cliques.
Acts of uttering such sentences, or of assenting to them when they are uttered by others, are shared responses to stimulation.
Moreover, adolescents who assent to participate in research studies may be less likely to share personal and sensitive information if they suspect that their responses can be disclosed to their parents [ 39].
Among couples sharing a house, for example, any decision to sell and switch to a rental requires the assent of both partners.
That is because sharing the pound post independence, as part of a sterling zone, requires the remainder of the UK to assent.
Third, when assent is obtained from older children and adolescents, it is questionable whether they have the cognitive maturity and experience to understand the current and future implications of sharing private information.
Pacific Northwest has been negotiating with these First Nations groups, offering a share of its profit in return for assent to the development.
