Although mortality was a topic of discussion, the dinner party was far from macabre.
You're not going to be the dinner party guests of choice, but you can be a bigot if you want.
Minutes later, Mr and Mrs Clarke arrived for the dinner party and discovered their hostess was dead and their host in handcuffs.
He's no snob he devours shows like "Mad Men" and "Enlightened, " and with Rico Gagliano hosts a public-radio show called "The Dinner Party Download, " an omnivorous guide to arts and culture that broadcasts nationally.
Ms Marriott said the dinner party would be attended by her friends and their friends and most were "not that interested" in the royal wedding but thought it was a good reason to meet up.
Because once the dinner party gets rolling, and all those Gen-X wives settle onto the couch with their white wine, your buddies are going to want to join you in the kitchen, hogging all the fun.
At the same dinner party, Wilson complained to Swann that the BBC was "needlessly lavish", citing the large number of tickets taken by the corporation for Labour's annual conference.
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Normally, you would not invite Nader, Hoffa and Buchanan to the same dinner party.
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When the dinner-party episode was read in class, my sons found it hilarious, which is why they were taunting me.
The cocktail party and dinner were in support of the Princess Charlene Foundation (founded by Princess Charlene of Monaco) and the Monegasque Association against Muscular Dystrophy (founded by Prince Albert II of Monaco).
Late in the evening, loading dinner-party dishes into the dishwasher, she remarked to Seth that it was hardly surprising that Joey should be confused about the distinction between children and adults his own mother seemed to suffer from some confusion about which of the two she was.
Previously Lord Archer said he was given the tip at a dinner party given by his friend, Sir Nicholas Lloyd, the former editor of the Daily Express.
When I mentioned the topic at a dinner party in Paris, my French host launched into a story about the year he lived in Southern California.
Steven Spielberg directs this fable with his customary fluency and warmth, and the movie has some charming passages a dinner party served by the maintenance men is a highlight but the narrative lacks drive and a serious reason to exist.
You might say that it marked a peculiar moment in the evolution of Gawker, which was once described to Denton at a dinner party as the place where losers talk about winners a venue for punching upward, with hive-mind tendencies of its own.
Early last year, around the time Yahoo was worth twice what General Motors was, I threw a dinner party for the author Michael Lewis at our FORBES digs in Silicon Valley.
The easiest way to make sure the evening goes well is to enter a dinner party knowing something about the hosts and the guests.
But the hosts at my dinner party were not "Ossies" but "Wessies", completely au fait with bananas and even, perhaps, porcini.
Cindy Moelis recalled a dinner party the Obamas gave when they were newlyweds: shrimp-and-pasta, inexpensive art on the walls from their travels to Hawaii and Kenya.
Today, the supply side still reigns, but by the time of that dinner party in 2022, everyone will understand that free customers are more valuable than captive ones.
Thai stocks have been on a roll this year, along with the Thai currency which hit a five-year high on the day that I met the musician at a dinner party.
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The Brits are famously obsessed with their mortgages--before the credit crunch, it was impossible to attend a British dinner party without someone gloating about the staggering rise in the value of his or her home--but 2008 put a damper on such pretensions.
We know about the young man who met the love of his life at a dinner party, ditching his plans to go to bed early and instead talking with the brilliant and charming Laura Welch late into the night.
This is probably the aftereffect of a horrid dinner party I went to last night.
If my aunt and uncle wanted to spend money or have a dinner party, the girls were consulted.
Bloggers and forum posters will catch on, and instead of a raucous dinner party, the web will become more like a never-ending global job interview, in which every remark is carefully vetted lest it look bad in the eyes of a future employer.
For example, I know nothing about wine, so when I buy wine for a dinner party I determine the value solely on price.
Here's some ammunition for your next dinner party conversation: The possibility of a 1990's-style housing crash in Britain just became a bit more real.
In the study, researchers threw a dinner party for eight expert surgeons at Yale University and instructed them to drink until they felt intoxicated.
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