Those endless vodka toasts were a way of seeing what you were really like: in vino veritas.
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There are toasts, speeches of gratitude, hugs and lunches that celebrate the hard work of the past year.
There were many speeches, many toasts to U.S.-Chinese friendship, and at some point the wine ran out, which was a shame.
He captures the way Russians are transformed by toasts, the romance of long-distance train rides and the squalor of train stations.
After a few toasts to the Johnson legacy you may find yourself wishing for the presidential perk of always having a limousine on hand.
There are champagne glasses for toasts, and donkey shaped cookie cutters from the Democratic National Convention for politically themed snack preparation.
If all of this is a turnoff, if you prefer your celebratory toasts unpretentious and filled right to the brim, don't worry.
As twilight arrived, Mittal Naidoo laid out dainty hors d'oeuvres (eggplant toasts and cauliflower fritadas), poured everyone a glass of wine and got down to cooking.
If it does, then when the Earth-like planets start to roll in, the astronomers responsible may be drinking their toasts with a twist.
Elsewhere, Ms. Bloomfield provides hearty breakfast recipes, our choice being toasts topped with squash, pancetta and fried egg, dusted with chili, cumin and marjoram.
Johnnie Walker promotes the holiday with gift packs in red packaging with a tumbler for impromptu toasts and bottles of Red Label and Blue Label whiskeys.
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Both have lived out versions of the city's bootstrapping myth: arriving as ambitious young men, plunging into the demimonde and ascending to become tastemakers and toasts of the town.
The anarchists were drinking victory shots and making toasts because even though they'd never met with success before they surely knew it when they saw it or it found them.
The plebs were that fight for food and wine, that quarrel over who should be served first and better, that dirty floor on which the waiters clattered back and forth, those increasingly vulgar toasts.
The broad range that you've been talking about -- broad brush -- I mean, most Americans are looking at what's happening, and they're seeing toasts and friendly, diplomatic talk, but there are some really serious issues that divide them.
Raise toasts with Venetians between acoustic music sets at Al Timon, but do not be late for reservations at nearby Dalla Marisa: lagoon seafood and local meats are bought fresh daily, and when they are gone, no one else will be seated.
This is how I whiled away one long summer night at a wedding reception on the Baltic coast of Sweden: hearing toasts, crooning local drinking songs and draining a profusion of little nips bottles of something called snaps (which is pronounced "schnahps, " but is very different from dessert-like schnapps).
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