dinner-parties

In his parables, the familiar world of his contemporaries is recast, to become something new and strange -- people showing up late for work receive the same wage as the early birds, layabouts are treated with more favour than their dutiful siblings, his Kingdom is like a mustard seed, and friends and family, we are told, should not be invited to your dinner-parties.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Readers did not hear that Pickfair dinner-parties ended at nine, or that Doug and Mary offered for nightcaps, not whisky, but hearty mugs of Ovaltine.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

In his parables, the familiar world of his contemporaries is recast, to become something new and strange--people showing up late for work receive the same wage as the early birds, layabouts are treated with more favour than their dutiful siblings, his Kingdom is like a mustard seed, and friends and family, we are told, should not be invited to your dinner-parties.

Christ 1; Church 0 2009

As a "typical White person," how many dinner-parties, barbacues, weddings, graduations, funerals ... of "typical Black people" do you regularly attend (and vice versa)?

Poll: Majority Doesn't Believe Obama Shares Wright's Views 2009

I am sure they will be the popular figures in the next series of dinner-parties given by their left-of-centre friends on the Continent, in between moments of sad reminiscing over the lovely days when the USSR was still about.

John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

Mrs. Holt: Yes, there were houses I could name in which two large dinner-parties were given in one week.

Pillars of Society 2008

We also wished to avoid the frequent and wearisome dinner-parties which custom generally imposes on newly-married couples.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

We also wished to avoid the frequent and wearisome dinner-parties which custom generally imposes on newly-married couples.

The Defense Apuleius 2008

Mrs. Holt: Yes, there were houses I could name in which two large dinner-parties were given in one week.

Pillars of Society 2008

The stiffness which was said to pervade in former times the parties at Spencer – Wood was entirely removed by him; and in addition to large balls and dinner-parties, at the time I was at

The Englishwoman in America 2007