But more than the hobnobbing, there's the art.

He loved the hobnobbing, the glamour, the celebrity.

Yet it was a sense of moral vigor, a desire to remake the world through idealism and "creative kinship," that made for such happy hobnobbing, he writes.

In the hobnobbing among participants, Dr. Guerette said, he has noticed a rise in discussion of bread-and-butter issues as therapists struggle with managed care.

Johnny Depp has done no hobnobbing, but uncharacteristically he did grant two print interviews (in Entertainment Weekly and Life).

In addition to the usual hobnobbing among developers and Apple engineers, this year's WWDC will feature training sessions and labs that focus on five different areas:

Babe Ruth's Escapades off the Field: Babe made news in New York for his hobnobbing and erratic driving, as well as his baseball career.

As Connecticut taste buds have become jaded with various ethnic onslaughts, Roomba adds a fresh element, a hobnobbing of standard cooking techniques with lively island ingredients and accents.

This year, the hobnobbing will no doubt take a more serious turn as the conferees ponder how to repair the securities markets in light of market volatility, how to regain investor confidence and, most importantly, how not to relive 1987.

These are the children you should be hobnobbing with and also the parents.

Both need to be seen on Japanese television hobnobbing with the good and the great around the world.

He hobnobbed with the rich and the famous of those days.

Put simply, his job is to hobnob with the high rollers.

What were you trying to prove, hobnobbing with green recruits like those?

He had hobnobbed with the elite, the beautiful, the powerful.

But not long ago he found himself at a government function hobnobbing with his government's top ministers.

One big payoff is the chance to hobnob with international artists.

Two decades ago the institute was the place for big thinkers to hobnob.

And he lived in Washington for years, hobnobbing with politicos.

Soon after he began hobnobbing with heads of Communist governments.

I took to hobnobbing with it again, in the vacs.

Not all of us get to hobnob with the rich and powerful."

She'd hobnob with us, big as she thought she was.

One had to hobnob to keep winning mandates at the polls.

Even the governor comes down to hobnob with me in the cells."

Warning: hobnobbing with makers of history does not come cheap.

I wish you wouldn't hobnob with them in the future."

Initially, he liked the spotlight that came from hobnobbing with national figures.

The chef seemed to be spending a great deal of time in the dining room, sitting at this table or that, hobnobbing with friends.

He hobnobbed with politicians and gave $200,000 to a number of different campaigns.

"You get to hobnob with the movie stars, producers and directors.

I've been hobnobbing with the plutocratic capitalists and never knew it.

They think it makes them seem wild and randy to hobnob with mass murderers.