They still exchange words, but these conversations are generally about the small change of government.
The characters bicker, picnic, bathe, and borrow money: the usual small change of the Chekhovian deal.
Violence threatened or delivered is the small change of every interrogation.
Other topics, such as pupil premium, green subsidies and NHS reorganisation were the small change of government.
Since his default voice is so quiet and mild, this small change of pace and volume comes off dramatically.
But such feigned obliviousness is the small change of political hypocrisy, the lubricant of diplomatic exchange that facilitates communication and compromise.
One of the musical's great virtues, however, is that its big ideas grow out of the small change of human experience.
A far-reaching debate throughout the 1980s channelled abstruse wrangles from the pages of Marxism Today into the conversational small change of politics, the media and broadcasting.
On the one side, nonchalant coexistence in the lyre of Islam and Christianity within an ancient and abidingly popular pagan ritual, oiled by the small change of peaceful international trade.
Far from New York's galleries, these dark icons of a soul-searching religious experience reveal his contempt for the small change of chicanery and cynicism in which his legacy is now mired.
What stops this book – frequently lavatorial, and great lavatory reading – from being just another writerly mixtape is that Strauss is genuinely trying to shake down celebrity (and obscurity) for the small change of wisdom.
