While we were dining, the waiter placed two dozen oysters on the table.
While we were dining, we noticed a lot of people stopping in for pick-up orders.
Nevertheless, the festivities are an easy target: "While the guests are dining on expensive and extravagant food there will be scores who will be oppressed and placed behind bars by the Chinese government," Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, said.
Obsessively controlling when it comes to his reputation, Hugo declines in his characteristically snappish style while the two are dining together alone in his suite.
WHILE we were starting to get used to dining in exquisiteness, when our hotel proprietor told us about Al Fassia, a restaurant in Gueliz, the new section of the city that was built by the French, we jumped.
Well, the Andre-Prices are dining conspicuously in upscale restaurants, shopping and visiting the Playboy mansion, while the Beckhams are dining conspicuously in upscale restaurants, househunting and socialising with A-listers.
We'll be dining while Palestinians are bombarded in the latest Israeli ground offensive; while the fate of thousands of young immigrants fleeing from Central America remains uncertain; while mass incarceration continues our nation's legacy of systematic racism; while greedy corporations pollute our planet and oppress our laborers.
The book also recounts Madonna not wanting to go to Disneyland, Jackson not wanting to go to a strip club, and Madonna waving away a young fan who approached the two of them while they were dining: "We were at the table eating, and some little [kid] came up, [saying] 'Oh, my God, Michael Jackson and Madonna!' She goes, 'Get out of here.
"While Pat Riley was dining at Elaine's, the Nets were cleaning out the potato skins at Houlihan's" — among other service establishments.
While people were dining and drinking in the pleasure spots of Manhattan on a gorgeous summer evening, paying customers collected on the deck of the Intrepid.
So the way they've designed this: very large triclinium, to benefit from being able to see both the peristyle and views out over the sea, even while you were dining.
