leave-takings

You can hear it best at the beginning and end of a conversation when the greetings and leave-takings are more ritualized.

SeeLight: 2008

I wanted to emulate the leave-takings of certain other people whom I greatly admired—Beverly Sills, Senator Abe Ribicoff, and dozens of professional athletes who chose to leave the game while still in their prime.

The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010

I wanted to emulate the leave-takings of certain other people whom I greatly admired—Beverly Sills, Senator Abe Ribicoff, and dozens of professional athletes who chose to leave the game while still in their prime.

The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010

You can hear it best at the beginning and end of a conversation when the greetings and leave-takings are more ritualized.

Conversational Rhythms 2008

Good-byes are poignant preludes to the leave-takings and withdrawals that deprive our psyches of the sustenance they need to maintain our selfhood.

Robert Fuller: Why Do We Hate Good-Byes? 2009

The narrative is really a pretty simple tale of nineteenth-century adventure: naval battle, undiscovered island, first contact with natives living in paradise, exotic women, leave-takings, unnecessary battle against dark and unknown forces, pyrrhic victory and survival for some.

Archive 2007-07-01 Neth 2007

He was willing enough to get back to the island while the men were still sober; so there were many leave-takings and promises of return on the morrow, and the party paddled back to their island-fortress, racking their wits as to who or what the mysterious maid could be.

Westward Ho! 2007

The narrative is really a pretty simple tale of nineteenth-century adventure: naval battle, undiscovered island, first contact with natives living in paradise, exotic women, leave-takings, unnecessary battle against dark and unknown forces, pyrrhic victory and survival for some.

Review: Set the Seas on Fire by Chris Roberson Neth 2007

Bad leave-takings remind me of the importance of a good one.

Naked in the Boardroom Robin Wolaner 2005

These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.

Barchester Towers 2004