Sentence examples for the conversational partner from inspiring English sources

After engagement and a conversation has developed, be sure to ask questions to steer the conversation towards topics that appeal to the conversational partner.

At other points, the conversational partners are guitars.

They also overestimated how poorly they came across compared to ratings the conversational partners made.

According to the study's guinea-pigs it sometimes makes mistakes, such as suddenly turning down the volume on a conversational partner before the conversation is finished.

In the absence of a conversational partner who shares the writer's background and who can furrow her brows or break in and ask for clarification when he stops making sense, good writing depends an ability to imagine a generic reader and empathise about what she already knows and how she interprets the flow of words in real time.

"It's ironic" that the more comfortable volunteers were with their conversational partner, the less fluent they became, Zhang says.

On the one hand, with written information the user has no conversational partner who can give direct feedback on things the reader may not have understood or on their anxiety or uncertainty.

He's likely to let one or two slip during this run, which includes a respectful conversational partner, the guitarist Russell Malone, along with the bassist Ray Drummond and the drummer Victor Lewis.

A conversation involves an exchange between conversational partners that seeks agreement about some matter at issue; consequently, such an exchange is never completely under the control of either conversational partner, but is rather determined by the matter at issue.

Thanks to software that's smarter and chattier, the smartphone is closer than ever to becoming a conversational partner, and even supplanting the conversations we'd otherwise have with people.

Gloria Steinem had been Hooks's conversational partner the evening before.