He's a a bit like the slightly toxic dinner-party guest seated next to you, whom you initially turn from and then find yourself leaning toward, despite your better judgment.

Word got out at the screening that the dinner-party guests had been given cookbooks.

A novel about a dinner-party guest who won't leave, a history of Henry VII, an inquiry into madness .

Any reservations about Chicago's imagery or her choice of dinner-party guests were swept away.

Like fashion designers, interior designers and even some hairstylists, florists have gone from being members of a service class to escorts and dinner-party guests in some of the swankest company.

The drama of a soufflé straight from the oven will always stir a table of dinner-party guests.

Patient Griselda is one of a group of historical or legendary dinner-party guests in Caryl Churchill's 1982 play Top Girls.

He yelled at dinner-party guests; exploded in rage at friends; snubbed people publicly.

Combined with a bright citrus sauce (this time tricked out with a generous helping of butter), it's a 10-minute recipe that will impress the most discerning dinner-party guests.