conversers

It has transformed the way we access and it makes us better "conversers" about what's happening in our world and others '.

Richard Laermer: Information Gone Wild: Good News about Alerts 2008

Much goodness ensues, in other words, when the conversers are reasonable non-ranters who, as a bonus, often swallow before speaking.

Andrew Pessin: A Room Without Rants: Where Reasonable Theists and Atheists Meet Andrew Pessin 2010

Take a pad and paper to a public venue — a crowded bus, a busy restaurant, that tedious holiday potluck your boss always insists will boost company morale, but only makes it apparent that the company is too cheap to spring for caterers — pick a couple of conversers, and jot down everything they say for a couple of minutes.

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Take a pad and paper to a public venue — a crowded bus, a busy restaurant, that tedious holiday potluck your boss always insists will boost company morale, but only makes it apparent that the company is too cheap to spring for caterers — pick a couple of conversers, and jot down everything they say for a couple of minutes.

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There was no interruption from visitors, she was tormented by the discussion of no disagreeable subjects, the duel was not mentioned, the antagonists were not hinted at, she was teized with no self-sufficient encouragement, and wearied with no mortifying affability; the conversation at once was lively and rational, and though general, was rendered interesting, by a reciprocation of good-will and pleasure in the conversers.

Cecilia 2008

If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers and fishmongers.

Representative Men 2006

This is the time to say that for Gmail you are not senders of electronic messages, you are "conversers."

Boing Boing: April 18, 2004 - April 24, 2004 Archives 2004

The great pity about this positive phase of interrupting is that all habitual interrupters are totally unconscious that they continually break into the speeches of their conversers and literally knock their very words back into their mouths.

Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin

Ready conversers are people who give their thought to others in abundance; who make others feel a familiar heartbeat.

Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin

Quite as noticeable an element in French conversation is the attitude of the conversers to their subject.

Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin