Word: colloquy
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...Colloquy of the Ancients," Professor Porter, Fogg Museum, Small Lecture Room...
...pianist, indignant because deafness has made impractical the pursuit of his art. While cursing the deity and contemplating suicide, he has learned to read lips so adroitly that he can do it with field glasses. Looking into Central Park, he spies out his fiancee who is engaged in amorous colloquy. She is saying that she feels bound, out of sympathy, to marry Arliss...
...Boss Curry had telephoned Appellate Justice Henry L. Sherman, vacationing at Lake Placid, and induced him to hear a petition which resulted in a stay of Dr. Doyle's sentence. With much sparring by the witness and many a loud gavel rap by the committee chairman, the following colloquy between Inquisitor Seabury and Boss Curry occurred...
...such a scene, such a tune, might injure the patriotic sensibilities of friendly British visitors. Against any such elimination Congressman Bloom raised his voice in vehement protest. He wanted history, including "The World's Turned Upside Down," repeated as it occurred 150 years ago. The following long-range colloquy took place between him and Virginia's Congressman Schuyler Otis Bland, secretary of the Yorktown celebration...
...written in a quiet blank verse. As befits the reminiscent, sometimes conversational manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...