"We had tremendous conversations with the president a couple of times yesterday," Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C). said Friday, "and we found him to be not only willing to negotiate, but a desire to really make this bill the very best it can be.
The tremendous vividness of "Conversation in the Cathedral" has to be similarly glimpsed in flashes, amid the narrative's almost constant chronological shuffle.
After the horrific mass murder at Newtown, Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, there was a tremendous amount of conversation that this had to be the moment of change in how America coped with gun violence.
Similarly, today there is a tremendous amount of conversation about how this latest national embarrassment over debt ceilings and budget deadlines will finally force Congress to grow up and govern with some modicum of orderliness and common sense.
Since the massive blackout that wracked the east coast of the United States and large parts of Canada back in 2003, there has been a tremendous amount of conversation about the development of a "smart grid" that will provide a safe, reliable, efficient and resilient energy infrastructure.
That's part of this album's narrative strategy, which includes, on top of Mr. Lamar's tremendous verses, prayers and conversations and different voices and recollections and interludes, all in service of one overarching story: Mr. Lamar's tale of ducking Compton's rougher corners to find himself artistically.
We had a bunch of encounters, and the two reverends handled all the conversations with tremendous care and delicacy, even with those who were clearly out of their minds on drugs.
This case should be a tremendous opportunity for a global conversation about technology fragility.
David will be remembered for his tremendous life force, his engaging conversation, unbeatable chess game and his good cooking which he served to friends and foes alike.
An official involved in the process said that Bremer wanted the interim constitution to be sold to the Iraqi public in a one-way conversation: "He has a tremendous investment in this as one of his prized accomplishments".
