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n. (plural of conversation piece English)
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Conversation Pieces is a reworking of the Animated Conversations concept. It consists of a series of five shorts which aired on Channel Four between 1982 and 1983. Each of the 5 shorts were five minutes long.
As AllAboutAardman explains, "in the series plasticine personalities enact scenarios suggested by documentary-style recorded dialogue".
Usage examples of "conversation pieces".
As if added for conversation pieces, there was a cast-iron bathtub with an outboard motor, and a peculiar inflatable raft with a makeshift cabin and mast.
As you may know, it has become something of a nat fad to acquire joker remains-bodies, skeletons, what have you-as conversation pieces.
He couldn't understand why such dangerous animals were kept inside the facilitywere they curios, conversation pieces, or something worse?
Your work of art attains immortality, and all the fashionable people buy copies for conversation pieces.
But Brezhnev bears, well, their looks mostly make you giggle and feel protective and want to take a couple home for pets or conversation pieces.
I've had many an opportunity to watch her prattle around the cabanas, cart full of fresh white linen and uniform full of ripe brown hide, but never had occasion to make conversation more than Hello or Thanks, even when she gave me her most treasured smile, 14-carat incisors, conversation pieces both of them.