What is "cocktail parties"

Usage examples of "cocktail parties".

That is the question that has every Wizard in Washington hanging by his or her fingernails -- from the bar of the National Press Club to the redwood sauna in the Senate Gymnasium to the hundreds of high-powered cocktail parties in suburbs like Bethesda, MacLean, Arlington, Cabin John and especially in the leafy white ghetto of the District's Northwest quadrant.

After that, casual conversations with various authorities from the ice Galileans: in cocktail parties after workshops, in bars after the parties, walking in groups along Lake Geneva's signature lakefront promenade, under the sonolu-minescent streetlights suspended from the tent framework.

But I'd like to ask who you like to read now, and who, among writers, you like to meet at cocktail parties?

The general's cocktail parties were held here, and on such occasions he baffled his staff by making a lie of the terrible stories about him.

Occasionally at cocktail parties he would come and stand quite close to me and I knew that.

They chatted and laughed as if they were sitting not in a mental hospital but a private club, laughing and chattering easily in those polite shallow deflections of thousands of cocktail parties and balls and benefits the family had absorbed to make sure that nothing deeper or even deep ever got said.

Their authors will never be hailed as geniuses and poets and feted at Manhattan cocktail parties.

Prescott and Gus Webb were entertained at dinners and cocktail parties.