fireside

Murdoch spoke briefly Wednesday at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, a fireside chat cut short because of Murdoch’s late arrival in San Francisco thanks to a weather delay.

Frontier characters with colorful language come and go in spurts of saloon musing and fireside dialogue.

Increasingly, when I'm on podcasts or fireside chats I emphasize the role of "conflict entrepreneurs."

In his first televised fireside chat, he wore a cardigan sweater and encouraged Americans to conserve energy during the winter by keeping their thermostats at 65 degrees in the daytime and 55 degrees at night.

His televised "fireside chats'" were consciously relaxed, but this approach seemed too informal as problems mounted.