colloquy

Their colloquy is interrupted when a rampaging animal is heard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

And then there’s this funny colloquy with Sen. Chuck Grassley, who’s trying to trap him into articulating his views on “judicial activism,” and his response was kind of beautiful.

From Slate ● May 9, 2025

And in the second act, he has a crucial existential colloquy with Marianne, Rachel Bay Jones’ wealthy airhead, who reveals a surprising amount of depth in a philosophical back and forth with her uncertain confessor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

Some of his dialogue scenes — including a riveting colloquy between the questing Marianne and the questioning bishop — have the shape, rhythm and sorrowful wit of a Sondheim song.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

Plainly skeptical but unwilling to engage in a colloquy with a wheedling Teller, Fermi pleaded that he was too tired from the flight to give him a hearing, much less a commitment.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

And I heard these colloquies with Kagan and Barrett as a kind of rubber-meets-the-road moment, where they were like: “You need to promise us that this stops here.”

From Slate ● May 16, 2025

You hear it deployed in corporate colloquies, political speeches and school prospectuses as if it were a magic wand.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2021

Despite a sense of the historical importance – and members’ efforts to dramatize the hearing with outbursts and impassioned colloquies – the mood was subdued.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2019

The pacing of this domestic reckoning, divided into a series of heated colloquies between Nora and the loved ones she left behind, is breathless.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2019

"Oh, I do so wonder!" she replied with the refined but exaggerated glee that is a frequent form in high companies and light colloquies.

From The Sacred Fount by Henry James