It's the tone of the voice, little tidbits of "those people" lingo that slip into conversation, the varying degrees of surprise concerning something about me that defies stereotype ("You're so expressive for an Asian!").
Native Americans, the country's growing hispanic population, and those of Far Eastern origin have also entered the conversation to varying degrees, but pretty much everyone else in the United States with pigment in their skin still falls into the murky territory of "ambiguously brown".
The other candidates engaged to a varying degree in a little conversation as they left the stage — none more than Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, who is now ahead of Mr. Romney in some polls.
To varying degrees all the duets are conversations, the more spontaneous and freewheeling, the better.
Concepts are treated as hollow shells to be filled with varying beliefs or ideas, contents gleaned from conversations with one another or contact with the world.
There's a good deal of teaching English, beer drinking, hooking up with men and women of varying nationalities, and engaging in the kinds of conversations on Life, Literature and Love common to most college dorm rooms.
The speech sounds simulated an environment where phone conversations are heard from different locations varying in distance.
"There are just so many people who have such varying opinions on it, so I think candid conversations are good," she said.
When Mr. Kalhor performed, it sounded like a conversation among several instruments, with the varying timbres at times evoking the wailing pleas of disconsolate lovers.
Based on a number of conversations I've had with people to varying degrees in the know about Apple's App Store, I would argue that they simply were not ready for what it has become.
