It's songwriting like that—borne of an almost religious commitment to honesty, rendered in casual, conversational language—that makes Martin's music so affecting.
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While Plex has always had a sort of casual, conversational tone to its various product announcements, this weird and confusing bit of fiction had its community members scratching their heads.
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VALERIE JUNE "The Order of Time" (Concord) Rootsy, leisurely, genre-blurring Americana grooves roll along and evolve behind Valerie June's assorted voices — nasal, clear, cracked, breathy — in songs with a casual, conversational surface.
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Our goal is to clarify what we're up to here — providing a casual, conversational weekly missive from me, the bureau chief — and to move away from the use of NYT, which our branding experts are eager to bury.
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The writing style of the book has been called casual, conversational, and user friendly. Maschwitz stated that the conversational feel was something he felt passionately about, and spoke with the publisher ahead of time to ensure they understood the tone he was pursuing.
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Although his show was already successful by the end of the 1960s, during the 1970s, Carson became an American icon and remained so even after his retirement in 1992. He adopted a casual, conversational approach with extensive interaction with guests, an approach pioneered by Arthur Godfrey and previous Tonight Show hosts Steve Allen and Jack Paar. Former late-night host and friend David Letterman has cited Carson's influence.
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The talk embedded in the actions of the literacy event shapes the child's learning as the tutor regulates his or her language to conform to the child's degrees of understanding. Clay (2005) shows that what may seem like casual conversational exchanges between tutor and student actually offer many opportunities for fostering cognitive development, language learning, story composition for writing, and reading comprehension. Conversations facilitate generative, constructive, experimental, and developmental speech and writing in the development of new ideas (Smagorinsky, 2007). In Vygotsky's words, "what the child is able to do in collaboration today he will be able to do independently tomorrow" (Vygotsky, 1987, p. 211).
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Rolling Stone ranked the album at No. 24 on their "50 Best Albums of 2017" list and at No. 3 on their "40 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2017" list, with Will Hermes of Rolling Stone saying that "June perfected her handsomely idiosyncratic brand of Americana", and calling "If And" and "Got Soul" the "headiest moments" of the album. Jon Pareles of The New York Times ranked the album at No. 9 on his list of best pop albums of 2017. He wrote: "Rootsy, leisurely, genre-blurring Americana grooves roll along and evolve behind Valerie June’s assorted voices — nasal, clear, cracked, breathy — in songs with a casual, conversational surface." The Order of Time was ranked No. 10 on Cosmopolitan "The 10 Best Albums of 2017" list.
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