Such conviviality is likely absent from Foden's next novel, which imagines a near future in which water shortages disrupt the balance of world power.
In later years, while living in retirement on the Isle of Wight, he suffered cancer of the vocal cords; the removal of his larynx reduced his ability to speak, a cruel misfortune for a man of such conviviality and eloquence, who had loved to sing while playing the piano.
My money, my gold watch, my diamond stickpin -- small prices to pay for an evening of such high conviviality.
It's time honored among amateur cooks that if a friend is excellently skilled in the creation of a peach cobbler, for instance, to say between swallows, "Oh, I love that; can I have the recipe?" At such moments of conviviality, it is proudly given and gratefully received.
Such easy cross-cultural conviviality is the refreshing hallmark of this historic East-West meeting ground, which previously hosted the 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev Summit and the Fischer-Spassky "match of the century" (the Edward Zwick movie of which, Pawn Sacrifice, was partially filmed in Iceland).
Yusuf has called America "the best model we have to have a multi-faith, multicultural society," and that he sees the roots for such a society in the historical example of "conviviality in the Muslim world".
More such context and fewer sax solos would have improved the evening's conviviality no end.
She told her audience that the Germans had technical know-how in matters such as organising complicated scene changes but, better still, they emphasised the conviviality, the excitement, of theatregoing with "spacious foyers.
The result of such intimacy is an unusual sense of the contradictions of a man whose rough manner concealed great kindness, and whose conviviality masked a profound morbidity.
Such sentiments among the cartels yearn back to the days of what was called the "Pax Mafiosa", when there was conviviality between cartels and the Mexican state, while "the product" kept moving.
What explains this unstinting conviviality?
