So a writer should not be afraid to have characters talk in a way that's more formal or correct than is common in real life.
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She is alarmed that some people talk about Seasonale in the same way they might talk about taking a daily vitamin pill.
It is only the people who are affluent that talk in this way.
The company has written more than 40 "dictionaries" for the way people talk in different countries, for different products.
We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
Governor PALIN: We all tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Vienna or Youngstown and then another way in San Francisco.
"This particular solution allows discussion to occur across existing systems and enables us to talk in a way that's affordable so that not everybody has to buy entirely new systems to communicate, " Granholm says.
Perhaps unduly excited by Krejza's success, Dhoni asked Harbhajan to bowl the second over - but India's premier off-spinner could not make the ball "talk" in the way Krejza had, albeit with an older ball.
After dinner--and the visit from Santa Claus--we would retire to their library, where they would pull out various literary gems and talk about them in a way that even an obtuse rock-'n'-roll-loving youngster could be impressed with.
And the reason that, in many cases, Congress votes the way they do, or talks the way they talk, or takes positions in negotiations that they take doesn't have to do with me.
In economics, we talk about signaling as a way to confer information about key characteristics in the face of imperfect information.
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Practitioners: we have a responsibility to not talk to laymen in a deceptive way.
Senator JEFF SESSIONS (Republican, Alabama): Let's talk about this in a rational way.
Mr. BURRIS: The ultimately key to me, and it always has been, is communication, the ability to talk to people in a respectful way and get them to understand why you are doing what you are doing and giving them an opportunity to respond.
Yvonne Markowitz, a jewelry curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, said men rarely talk about the pieces they're collecting in the way they might show off a blue-chip painting.
It made such a pleasant change from the usual trashy way that boxers talk about each other in the build-up to a fight.
Engineers on the project are working on protocols that let devices talk to one another in the same way they might harness the standards for WiFi or Bluetooth.
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Erskine: I think these are two very distinct, very separate issues and we have to think and talk about them in a clearly differentiated way.
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When people do talk that way, it's often in service of marketing an idea that their company has "thought leadership, " which stands for a better understanding of the world.
"You have to talk to the elderly in a kindly way, " she tells volunteers as she uses a human-sized model to demonstrate the task of putting a diaper on a grown-up.
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
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For consumers, especially in developing markets, the BBM Voice feature offers an attractive way to talk with friends and family near and far, and staying in contact will be easier than ever as the holiday season approaches.
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So it's to find a way to talk about the policy that makes sense to people and to policy makers in a way that makes sense to them.
We talk openly about sex and excretion in a way that still shocks our grandparents.
It does mean that there are powerful treatments hidden in the way good doctors talk to their patients and that we need to figure out ways to study them.
His wanderings free the vagabond-diplomat from the bonds of caste and hierarchy and permit him to talk and deal with everybody in the same way, irrespective of convention and propriety.
But secondly, I think we all love the way the internet and social media can bring us face to face with those affected by an issue and allows people to talk about their own lives in their own way.
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But Stubbs was able to talk "passionately and openly, " in a way that captured her attention.
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