His conversational opening had guaranteed she wouldn't turn away.

The tattoo is connected to the second marriage, he says, and he got it simply to have a conversational opening with the woman, who was half Chinese.

It was a good conversational opening, and he remarked on the new development to his driver.

Good excuse to be grumpy and quiet while the others talk about the meeting and to avoid Jo's eyes, pretending not to hear her abrupt conversational openings.

For men, conversational openings about cars, sports or high-tech consumer electronics are usually a good bet.

It was not a promising conversational opening, and despite his loneliness of a few minutes previously, Nick suddenly wanted to be alone again.

There was no need to search for a conversational opening.

They all had theories, travels, diets, colorful pasts, studied conversational openings, and they usually wore some piece of soiled finery like the white silk scarf.

I just gave you an extremely provocative conversational opening, and you murmured a polite nothing and let it lapse.

It was his custom to slip past such conversational openings with a quick step and an averted face.