Sentence examples for window conversation from inspiring English sources

In the documentary, Susan Stamberg, a correspondent for National Public Radio, calls window conversation "the urban equivalent of the back fence," and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice, who grew up in Flatbush listening to "The Goldbergs" on radio, gives a nod to the phenomenon.

Ramona Hernández, a sociology professor who runs the Dominican Studies Institute at the City University of New York, said window conversations were alive and well in other working-class and immigrant neighborhoods like Washington Heights.

"I was kind of forced to listen to their window conversations," she said of a fifth-floor neighbor who regularly chatted with friends on the sidewalk below.

I'm going to school.' They'd say, 'Senorita, why don't you move?' " Jenna Weissman Joselit, a cultural historian and the Charles E. Smith Chair in Judaic Studies at George Washington University, said the window conversations that prevailed in the era of "The Goldbergs" highlighted the lack of boundaries between public and private spaces.

Ms. Millan lives in a five-story building near Crotona Park with tenement-era airshafts, but she never hears her neighbors in window-to-window conversations, she said.

Even the surrounding white walls, with their wrought-iron balconies, remind us this is a play whose main plot hinges on misunderstood, windowed conversations.

DON Be present and pay attention to the deaf person with whom you are communicating.

They're less concerned with respectability, actually, and much more like a shout in the hall, a wave out the window, a conversation in a crowded cafe.

The captain was taken in a lifeboat to the health magistrate's office and was kept in an enclosure where he spoke through a window; thus, conversation took place at a safe distance.

Select the third option in the pop-up window, "Report conversation participant(s) for harassing... ...... and click the Okay button.

Mango offered threaded messages to users, allowing you to convert from a Facebook chat, SMS, and Windows Live messenger all from the same conversation window.