He, meanwhile, was squirming in his seat, desperate to escape, but stuck with making three hours of small-talk with his recent and best-forgotten conquest.
Small-talk tends to get so intimate so quickly that many westerners recoil.
Like almost all the other novices, I started washing my hands more, checking in with my wife several times during work and making small talk about scary-looking people whom I'd seen on the street, or the prospects of war.
With all this talk about small-form-factor PCs going on, not to mention the Vista-equipped computer bandwagon that's steaming through today, Lenovo apparently figured it might as well hop on.
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Health care is part and parcel with where we need to take our economy. (Applause.) You talk to every small business -- how many small business owners are here?
People in Milford talk with affection about its small-town feel.
The first-generation version of the player actually had two headphone jacks and a button that you pressed so that your listening partner could hear you talk to them via a small built-in microphone.
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Throughout the 30-minute talk, Zuckerberg, wearing a brown T-shirt with the three small Facebook icons for notifications on it, remained calm and upbeat, rambling energetically a bit a times.
Hollande and Montebourg talk up small enterprise, but it's self-defeating to treat those companies as rare and precious flowers in need of state coddling.
He went to the House of Representatives in 1995 but retired in 2001 after sticking to self-imposed term limits. (Mr Carson replaced him.) His small-government militancy has led him at various times to talk of closing down the Department for Housing and Urban Development, and of privatising Social Security.
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Inter-governmentalism favours big countries, which is why small ones talk up the role of Brussels.
Aeropostale is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting fourteen to seventeen year-old young women and men (talk about a small target).
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The study found a small number of patients had seen a health professional to talk about emotional problems - but more patients would have liked this support.
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The summit also produced several other pledges, such as one to allow the cross-listing of small firms' shares, that will remain just talk for now.
What soldiers say they really could use are small, hands-free devices that translate speech in both directions, as people talk to them.
Each node contained a small processor, a sensor and a low-powered radio with just enough power to talk to adjacent nodes and the network was just smart enough to reconfigure itself to reroute data whenever one node got damaged.
We talk a bit about Netflix's Blu-ray premium, and the small upcharge of one or two dollars seems like a pretty good deal to us -- doubly so in these times when consumers are having a hard time pulling the trigger on Blu-ray media purchases.
Party season is at an all-time high, and, whether you're schmoozing with co-workers or mingling at a friend's holiday celebration, you become a pro at small talk.
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