The dinner-table conversation went back to more suitable topics, and Leda went back to reality.

That is what's so much fun about our ongoing dinner-table conversation about destiny.

This final story becomes novelistic, its theme of loss made palpable and powerful through dinner-table conversation.

It grew out of dinner-table conversation.

Young Jim was made aware at almost every dinner-table conversation of the duties and sacrifices involved in being Canadian.

"Soon, our parents are going to be the dinner-table conversation," Ms. Morris said.

That makes for some lively dinner-table conversation.

I think she got tired of the dinner-table conversation about cocaine and drug smuggling.

From dinner-table conversations I knew that my parents had once lived in a place called "the Church" and seemed to miss it.